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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-06 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 8

of one more keen thing you did that I wouldn't dare write about but I've never ceased giggling about - I really wonder whether you've ever been told there is no Santa Claus. 
The other day Father R. heard me say I'd had mail from you. Immediately he pounced upon me and insisted on having the letters passed around. Fortunately I had brought two of them, and there was only one "sticky" place in them so I warned Ernest to stop at a certain line. Father read the whole business and when he had finished, came in the dining room where we were gambling (stock market!) and whispered in my ear," Those were quite sensible. I've written worse myself." And having seen him with his arms around Mother R. or patting her hand under cover of the dinner table I'm fully prepared to believe it. He certainly has a

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of one more keen thing you did that I wouldn't dare write about but I've never ceased giggling about - I really wonder whether you've ever been told there is no Santa Claus. The other day Father R. heard me say I'd had mail from you. Immediately he pounced upon me and insisted on having the letters passed around. Fortunately I had brought two of them, and there was only one "sticky" place in them so I warned Ernest to stop at a certain line. Father read the whole business and when he had finished, came in the dining room where we were gambling (stock market!) and whispered in my ear," Those were quite sensible. I've written worse myself." And having seen him with his arms around Mother R. or patting her hand under cover of the dinner table I'm fully prepared to believe it. He certainly has a