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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5

ence now. We'll have to postpone our Paris house party until peace time. It will be all the better then for the reason that we can count on being together all the time. 
So your excellent plan for summer  sport at home is quite the thing. The schedule you outline sounds good - only I am sure that the Reynolds clan will want you to bring your mother with you when you come to see them. I have written to Juliet proposing that she call a gathering of the clan in Cedar Rapids to receive you and Mother Goody. I think it will be much better for father and mother to go up there to see you than for you to make a special trip to Dexter to see them. Dexter is a fine place for a boy to spend the days of real sport - boyhood, but not much of a place for his wife to go without him. I know I've raved about you to my dear mother until she would be all up in the air if she were to receive you there without her daughters with her. Juliet and Martha, being younger and more adaptable to situations and more used to entertaining, will not be so flustered about the coming of the new member of the family. And naturally, in a city instead of a small town, they have much better facilities for showing you a good time than father and mother have.  I propose that you defer your pilgrimage to Dexter until sometime when I can go with you and interpret the place to you. Otherwise I fear the experience will not be pleasant. At Cedar Rapids father and mother, relieved of all responsibility will enjoy you, and you will enjoy them all the more. And all of you together will have a jolly time. Juliet has a piano which you can use to your heart's content and their enjoyment. She and Martha are both most delightful in entertaining folks in an unpretentious way - seeing that they

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ence now. We'll have to postpone our Paris house party until peace time. It will be all the better then for the reason that we can count on being together all the time. So your excellent plan for summer sport at home is quite the thing. The schedule you outline sounds good - only I am sure that the Reynolds clan will want you to bring your mother with you when you come to see them. I have written to Juliet proposing that she call a gathering of the clan in Cedar Rapids to receive you and Mother Goody. I think it will be much better for father and mother to go up there to see you than for you to make a special trip to Dexter to see them. Dexter is a fine place for a boy to spend the days of real sport - boyhood, but not much of a place for his wife to go without him. I know I've raved about you to my dear mother until she would be all up in the air if she were to receive you there without her daughters with her. Juliet and Martha, being younger and more adaptable to situations and more used to entertaining, will not be so flustered about the coming of the new member of the family. And naturally, in a city instead of a small town, they have much better facilities for showing you a good time than father and mother have. I propose that you defer your pilgrimage to Dexter until sometime when I can go with you and interpret the place to you. Otherwise I fear the experience will not be pleasant. At Cedar Rapids father and mother, relieved of all responsibility will enjoy you, and you will enjoy them all the more. And all of you together will have a jolly time. Juliet has a piano which you can use to your heart's content and their enjoyment. She and Martha are both most delightful in entertaining folks in an unpretentious way - seeing that they