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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-03-06 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

It is too good to come true. Some fluke is bound to appear. When I think how I've worried and had nightmares over the proposition of getting a good job even until my university place would be available it doesn't seem possible that I can get anything so wonderful as this handed to me on a silver platter so to speak - a job that may put me very speedily into the sort of thing I've regarded a long time as a sort of unattainable Heaven. Why there's every chance in it that it would permit us to knock about the old world together and then go back to Chicago or New York in what is spoken of by O'Henry or some-buddy as Enhanced Circumstances. 
The great disadvantage is, as I pointed out to Mother in a letter to her yesterday. that we might be pretty much away from our kinfolks for a time. It hurts to think about that because mothers want and

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It is too good to come true. Some fluke is bound to appear. When I think how I've worried and had nightmares over the proposition of getting a good job even until my university place would be available it doesn't seem possible that I can get anything so wonderful as this handed to me on a silver platter so to speak - a job that may put me very speedily into the sort of thing I've regarded a long time as a sort of unattainable Heaven. Why there's every chance in it that it would permit us to knock about the old world together and then go back to Chicago or New York in what is spoken of by O'Henry or some-buddy as Enhanced Circumstances. The great disadvantage is, as I pointed out to Mother in a letter to her yesterday. that we might be pretty much away from our kinfolks for a time. It hurts to think about that because mothers want and