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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-06 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2

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Lieut. Ifft who was looking at me with dimpled eyes and laughing chin. For a moment I tho't how much you'd changed - or that I'd married the wrong man, or suthin'. Brother Ifft certainly has an Irish map. How about the man Delaney & I want you all to know it's a fine rep you have back in the states. Can you imagine the pride that wells up under our waistcoats when some one on hearing our names, smiles broadly and says, "I don't suppose your husband is the Reynolds (or Ifft - or Delaney) who started the riot in a café in Coblenz". You see, it's in the papers. And the fact that you all cheered (and God knows what else) when the orchestrey played "The Stars'n stripes forever" means of course to most people, that you were having a wild night of it. Soldiers
 
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