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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918
1918-01-30 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 1
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Number Five An English Port, January 30, 1918. My dear Daphne,-- You must overlook the illegibility of my writing. I'm doing it with cold-stiffened fingers on a box propped on my knees as I sit on a bunk in a hut in a concentration camp. There is no fire in the place, and this is January, you know, on the foggy coast where the cold dampness penetrates everything. We awoke yesterday morning in the harbor at ___. Another ship was at our dock, so we had to wait until nearly noon before we could get off by tender. A special train was waiting to
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Number Five An English Port, January 30, 1918. My dear Daphne,-- You must overlook the illegibility of my writing. I'm doing it with cold-stiffened fingers on a box propped on my knees as I sit on a bunk in a hut in a concentration camp. There is no fire in the place, and this is January, you know, on the foggy coast where the cold dampness penetrates everything. We awoke yesterday morning in the harbor at ___. Another ship was at our dock, so we had to wait until nearly noon before we could get off by tender. A special train was waiting to
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