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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-19 Conger Reynolds To Daphne Reynolds Page 4

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I suppose I shouldn't depress you with this melancholy recital, but it comes out under pressure of my feelings. The captain brought me back to town in his car. Together we went to see the lieutenant who preceded me as press officer of Paris and then became treasurer of Stars and Stripes, the army newspaper. He had been reported down with flu. It was a relief to find him up and taking part in a French tea party. It's a relief nowadays to find anybody getting well who has been ill. (I'm a nut.) The madame insisted on our having some refreshments. So we met everybody and drank two cups of wonderful chocolate and ate a lot of wonderful cakes and apple tarts and departed feeling somewhat lightened of the
 
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