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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-10 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2

met me when you were playing on the S.U.I. football team, and that you spent one year as an Ambulance driver in France. That is what you deserve for not having published your experiences - I mean, of course, the ones you'd dare to see in print.
   I sent your dear mother a wire the night I received the cable from France and immediately she wrote to tell me she had one too. If the messenger boy didn't lie you paid a fearful price to send those cables, and if anything should happen that you'd ever need to send another, you are to send it to your mother and then she'll wire me the news. Of course, this applies only in case you mean the message for all of us. I don't suppose you'll have to cable again unless you go broke, or something like that, tho. Please don't think I am trying to dictate to you Conger. I'm not. But can't you see that I am right about it?
   Another letter I must tell you of was one I received from Dick, my friend at Fort Sill. He evidently never received my (our!) announcement and he wrote a very embarrassing letter. He said he wasn't going to take the time to ask about why I hadn't written; he had tried to be very indifferent in my case and

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met me when you were playing on the S.U.I. football team, and that you spent one year as an Ambulance driver in France. That is what you deserve for not having published your experiences - I mean, of course, the ones you'd dare to see in print. I sent your dear mother a wire the night I received the cable from France and immediately she wrote to tell me she had one too. If the messenger boy didn't lie you paid a fearful price to send those cables, and if anything should happen that you'd ever need to send another, you are to send it to your mother and then she'll wire me the news. Of course, this applies only in case you mean the message for all of us. I don't suppose you'll have to cable again unless you go broke, or something like that, tho. Please don't think I am trying to dictate to you Conger. I'm not. But can't you see that I am right about it? Another letter I must tell you of was one I received from Dick, my friend at Fort Sill. He evidently never received my (our!) announcement and he wrote a very embarrassing letter. He said he wasn't going to take the time to ask about why I hadn't written; he had tried to be very indifferent in my case and