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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 8

colonel with an income large enough that I could say flatly that you were to do nothing but enjoy yourself. It is not pleasant to have to realize that my income is probably not large enough to maintain you on the basis you are accustomed to even if I cut my own living expenses to bed rock. Again it's the war. It is the price we pay for the prospective happiness which will not be certain or secure until the war has been fought out to victory. If the kaiser wins, some Prussian will have my perfectly good job at home, and I'll be carrying a hod at 20 pfennings a day. 
I have scribbled along so hurriedly that I know what I've written must sound dreadfully abrupt. I don't intend it so. My idea is simply to put forward some suggestions to get your opinion on them and to arrive later at some conclusion on the basis of which I can formulate my own future program. Of course, you are quite as free to do whatever you want to as you were before Dr. Montgomery tied me to you. I merely want to help make it possible for you to do whatever you most want to do under the circumstances. 
It is after midnight, and I am leaving at 9:30 in the morning for my first trip to the front. I'm not going up to the front line exactly but I'll get to see where our troops are fighting. This is in preparation to conduct visitors later. Everything going well. Our major dropped in on us tonight and I had dinner with him and Lieutenant Morgan and the

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colonel with an income large enough that I could say flatly that you were to do nothing but enjoy yourself. It is not pleasant to have to realize that my income is probably not large enough to maintain you on the basis you are accustomed to even if I cut my own living expenses to bed rock. Again it's the war. It is the price we pay for the prospective happiness which will not be certain or secure until the war has been fought out to victory. If the kaiser wins, some Prussian will have my perfectly good job at home, and I'll be carrying a hod at 20 pfennings a day. I have scribbled along so hurriedly that I know what I've written must sound dreadfully abrupt. I don't intend it so. My idea is simply to put forward some suggestions to get your opinion on them and to arrive later at some conclusion on the basis of which I can formulate my own future program. Of course, you are quite as free to do whatever you want to as you were before Dr. Montgomery tied me to you. I merely want to help make it possible for you to do whatever you most want to do under the circumstances. It is after midnight, and I am leaving at 9:30 in the morning for my first trip to the front. I'm not going up to the front line exactly but I'll get to see where our troops are fighting. This is in preparation to conduct visitors later. Everything going well. Our major dropped in on us tonight and I had dinner with him and Lieutenant Morgan and the