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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

the cost. The total for all three was less than five dollars as I remember it. There is a special amex force rate. However, it is perfectly delightful to receive your wifey reproaches about my extravagance. Please dictate - a little anyway - I like to be henpecked. If I cable again I shall cable to you only and you can pass the word on.  
You may express my thanks to Ida for the wristlets if her efforts to knit them succeeded. I can use them. Summer isn't here by a long ways and I shall have some coolish drives before it arrived. By the way what became of the helmet you were knitting. I don't need it; I have the one Mrs Sanborn gave me. But I should much rather have yours and give the present one to some sojer. Would you like to knit a sweater for me. I want another worse than anything else just now. I particularly want a narrow one that will fit tightly about my sylph-like figger. The one I have is a bit loose, and besides, it needs a rest. 
I think I bold you that Zim is at the school where I spent three weeks after I received you letter suggesting the establishment of an entente cordiale between Macetta and you I passed the word along to him by letter. He came back very enthusiastic for it. On Christmas night, he said, he wrote Macetta that you were the sort of girl she would be charmed to know. She inquired in turn whether it might not be nice for her to write to you. Arther told her to go ahead. So you may have heard from her by this time. If not, you might start the negotiations. She is Macetta Browning. I haven't the address here now, but Mediapolis, Iowa, will reach her. She is a fine girl - very capable and very fine in her ideals. I should never fall in love with her - even if I

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the cost. The total for all three was less than five dollars as I remember it. There is a special amex force rate. However, it is perfectly delightful to receive your wifey reproaches about my extravagance. Please dictate - a little anyway - I like to be henpecked. If I cable again I shall cable to you only and you can pass the word on. You may express my thanks to Ida for the wristlets if her efforts to knit them succeeded. I can use them. Summer isn't here by a long ways and I shall have some coolish drives before it arrived. By the way what became of the helmet you were knitting. I don't need it; I have the one Mrs Sanborn gave me. But I should much rather have yours and give the present one to some sojer. Would you like to knit a sweater for me. I want another worse than anything else just now. I particularly want a narrow one that will fit tightly about my sylph-like figger. The one I have is a bit loose, and besides, it needs a rest. I think I bold you that Zim is at the school where I spent three weeks after I received you letter suggesting the establishment of an entente cordiale between Macetta and you I passed the word along to him by letter. He came back very enthusiastic for it. On Christmas night, he said, he wrote Macetta that you were the sort of girl she would be charmed to know. She inquired in turn whether it might not be nice for her to write to you. Arther told her to go ahead. So you may have heard from her by this time. If not, you might start the negotiations. She is Macetta Browning. I haven't the address here now, but Mediapolis, Iowa, will reach her. She is a fine girl - very capable and very fine in her ideals. I should never fall in love with her - even if I