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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-20 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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By the way, if you ever want to cable me, use the address, - Lieutenant Conger Reynolds, Intelligence, Headquarters, Amexforce. The Western Union has special rates for telegrams - or cables - to men of the A.E.F. Weekend rates about 5 cents a word, I believe. By cable, with this address you could probably reach me within a week and you might get a message through in a day or two. Arrival of letters is a great event in the life of everyone over here. A man who has had the good fortune goes around reading where all his envious comrades can see and marvel and hate him for his luck. I don't know why it is - the distance and the strangeness of the surroundings perhaps - but news from home acquires extraordinary importance. Did you develop unusual concern about affairs back home when you were abroad - or were you too deep in your studies to think about them? I didn't much care when I was over before. But then I was having a gay time seeing new sights and a new
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By the way, if you ever want to cable me, use the address, - Lieutenant Conger Reynolds, Intelligence, Headquarters, Amexforce. The Western Union has special rates for telegrams - or cables - to men of the A.E.F. Weekend rates about 5 cents a word, I believe. By cable, with this address you could probably reach me within a week and you might get a message through in a day or two. Arrival of letters is a great event in the life of everyone over here. A man who has had the good fortune goes around reading where all his envious comrades can see and marvel and hate him for his luck. I don't know why it is - the distance and the strangeness of the surroundings perhaps - but news from home acquires extraordinary importance. Did you develop unusual concern about affairs back home when you were abroad - or were you too deep in your studies to think about them? I didn't much care when I was over before. But then I was having a gay time seeing new sights and a new
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