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Helen Angell Fox letters to Bess Peebles Fox, January-May 1944

1944-01-23 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

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Lieutenant Harris? He's such a quiet, polite young man that I was surprised when he showed me the knife with which he killed two Germans!
Wednesday a very large, very dull man called Smoky (boxing champ of his division) comes back from his leave and he insisted before he left that he must have a date. It will be up to me to ease him off so that he doesn't catch on. He's just a howl, especially when he insists on doing mathematical tricks for me. They never come out right, & he scowls at them and squeezes his pencil and uses up all our paper. He gave me a very tiny pair of dice that I think are cute. I've also gleaned (from other sources), a candy bar, an artificial rose, a tangerine, an apple and a bunch of grapes. And, of course, loads of gum. Now I know why there isn't any for civilian use. [I forgot to say that his uniform coat is tight so that he can't use both arms at once for fear of splitting his coat fortunately!]
This morning Louise, Jane & I (all overseas people working at Forest Glen) decided we didn't get enough exercise, so we took an early bus and walked four miles from the district line to Forest Glen. On the way we visited a very interesting cemetary where John Carroll, the Irish Catholic archbishop in this

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2 Lieutenant Harris? He's such a quiet, polite young man that I was surprised when he showed me the knife with which he killed two Germans! Wednesday a very large, very dull man called Smoky (boxing champ of his division) comes back from his leave and he insisted before he left that he must have a date. It will be up to me to ease him off so that he doesn't catch on. He's just a howl, especially when he insists on doing mathematical tricks for me. They never come out right, & he scowls at them and squeezes his pencil and uses up all our paper. He gave me a very tiny pair of dice that I think are cute. I've also gleaned (from other sources), a candy bar, an artificial rose, a tangerine, an apple and a bunch of grapes. And, of course, loads of gum. Now I know why there isn't any for civilian use. [I forgot to say that his uniform coat is tight so that he can't use both arms at once for fear of splitting his coat fortunately!] This morning Louise, Jane & I (all overseas people working at Forest Glen) decided we didn't get enough exercise, so we took an early bus and walked four miles from the district line to Forest Glen. On the way we visited a very interesting cemetary where John Carroll, the Irish Catholic archbishop in this