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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-15 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 1
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Fifteen. February 15, 1918. My dearest Daphne, - Having exhausted the supply of American stationary, we shall now use the native product. I came away with only one box of paper, thinking I could easily get what I should want over here. I can; that is, I can get writing paper of the kind the shops want to give me, at about twice what it is worth at home and three times what it should cost in France. When I protested tonight, the clerk ran true to form. "What would you?" said she. "C'est la guerre." It is the war and it isn't. Prices have taken their biggest jump since the Americans came. You know, "American - and "millionaire" are synonymous terms in France. I am foregoing the Y.M.C.A. tonight. As a respectable married man
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Fifteen. February 15, 1918. My dearest Daphne, - Having exhausted the supply of American stationary, we shall now use the native product. I came away with only one box of paper, thinking I could easily get what I should want over here. I can; that is, I can get writing paper of the kind the shops want to give me, at about twice what it is worth at home and three times what it should cost in France. When I protested tonight, the clerk ran true to form. "What would you?" said she. "C'est la guerre." It is the war and it isn't. Prices have taken their biggest jump since the Americans came. You know, "American - and "millionaire" are synonymous terms in France. I am foregoing the Y.M.C.A. tonight. As a respectable married man
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