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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-07 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 4
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In our billets the good, simple folk fall all over themselves trying to make us comfortable and the intellectuals lose no opportunity to tell us of the gratitude of France toward America. Our little town is most quaint and interesting. It is a tangle of stone buildings grouped about an old castle overlooking a pretty little river. About is the peaceful open country where in summer wine grapes ripen in the warmth of a temperate sun. Everywhere one looks he sees material for the painter. Yesterday another lieutenant and I, out for a stroll, walked into a scene as beautiful as any composition I ever
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In our billets the good, simple folk fall all over themselves trying to make us comfortable and the intellectuals lose no opportunity to tell us of the gratitude of France toward America. Our little town is most quaint and interesting. It is a tangle of stone buildings grouped about an old castle overlooking a pretty little river. About is the peaceful open country where in summer wine grapes ripen in the warmth of a temperate sun. Everywhere one looks he sees material for the painter. Yesterday another lieutenant and I, out for a stroll, walked into a scene as beautiful as any composition I ever
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