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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

It's a bad tangle to straighten out, and I cant do much about it until I hear from you about it. If, in spite of the information given me, Washington has been paying you the allotment since July 31 I should get into trouble by undertaking to get the amounts I have deducted from my pay voucher every month since. And even if I find out that you haven't been paid I'll probably have a long grind recovering the deductions.
The first thing to do is for you to find out from Mr. McChesney exactly what allotments have been deposited for you with the bank and their total.  Please get me that information and send it to me toute de suite - which is as soon as may be. Then I'll try to clear things up. In the meantime I'll make no deduction from my January pay for allotment but draw the fifty dollars myself, add it to the fifty I'd normally put aside for you, and send you a hundred direct early in February. Before another pay day afterward I'll hope to have the information on which to proceed more certainly. 
Then there is the hundred I sent through the Y.M.C.A. at Bar-le-duc. You hadn't received that up to December 30. Please let me know whether it has come. I sent it about the middle of November and, bedad! if you haven't got it yet I'll make the Y. dig up. 
The hundred I sent a few days ago should reach you all right because I sent it by the same route as my remittance in September, which, I understand, got there. 
I'm terribly bothered, honey, to think of the financial struggles you may be having when I thought I had a constant flow of funds

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It's a bad tangle to straighten out, and I cant do much about it until I hear from you about it. If, in spite of the information given me, Washington has been paying you the allotment since July 31 I should get into trouble by undertaking to get the amounts I have deducted from my pay voucher every month since. And even if I find out that you haven't been paid I'll probably have a long grind recovering the deductions. The first thing to do is for you to find out from Mr. McChesney exactly what allotments have been deposited for you with the bank and their total. Please get me that information and send it to me toute de suite - which is as soon as may be. Then I'll try to clear things up. In the meantime I'll make no deduction from my January pay for allotment but draw the fifty dollars myself, add it to the fifty I'd normally put aside for you, and send you a hundred direct early in February. Before another pay day afterward I'll hope to have the information on which to proceed more certainly. Then there is the hundred I sent through the Y.M.C.A. at Bar-le-duc. You hadn't received that up to December 30. Please let me know whether it has come. I sent it about the middle of November and, bedad! if you haven't got it yet I'll make the Y. dig up. The hundred I sent a few days ago should reach you all right because I sent it by the same route as my remittance in September, which, I understand, got there. I'm terribly bothered, honey, to think of the financial struggles you may be having when I thought I had a constant flow of funds