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

1944-02-08 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

[Feb. 8, 1944]
Tuesday the 8th
Dear Mother,
Well, it looks as though this is it! National phoned just a few minutes ago, and I'm to report for clearance Thursday the 10th at 8:30. I may be around here several days or I may leave at once. I may make the trip to the unit, or I may meet them somewhere. Anyway, I won't be able to write after 8:30 Thursday until I am settled in my unit and only then if it is not under alert. So don't worry if it is a long time between letters. Be sure to keep on with your end of the correspondence and just address it to National, (that is, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.) as you have been. It wouldn't hurt to put my serial no. 32061 after my name and S.A.F. on the next line.
(Miss Helen Fox
A.R.C. 32061
SAF
American Red Cross
Washington, D.C.)
I went down this morning and stood in line two hours to get my income tax return filled out. I'm enclosing it and wish you'd send it to the Collector of Internal Revenue, Milwaukee, Wis. together with the money order for $45.07 as soon as you get the money I'm allotting home. That should be well before March 15th. I'm sorry I don't have cash enough to send it myself now. You might enclose a note saying that I have been sent overseas, do not expect to be employed in Milwaukee in the future and want Iowa City as my residence.

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[Feb. 8, 1944] Tuesday the 8th Dear Mother, Well, it looks as though this is it! National phoned just a few minutes ago, and I'm to report for clearance Thursday the 10th at 8:30. I may be around here several days or I may leave at once. I may make the trip to the unit, or I may meet them somewhere. Anyway, I won't be able to write after 8:30 Thursday until I am settled in my unit and only then if it is not under alert. So don't worry if it is a long time between letters. Be sure to keep on with your end of the correspondence and just address it to National, (that is, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.) as you have been. It wouldn't hurt to put my serial no. 32061 after my name and S.A.F. on the next line. (Miss Helen Fox A.R.C. 32061 SAF American Red Cross Washington, D.C.) I went down this morning and stood in line two hours to get my income tax return filled out. I'm enclosing it and wish you'd send it to the Collector of Internal Revenue, Milwaukee, Wis. together with the money order for $45.07 as soon as you get the money I'm allotting home. That should be well before March 15th. I'm sorry I don't have cash enough to send it myself now. You might enclose a note saying that I have been sent overseas, do not expect to be employed in Milwaukee in the future and want Iowa City as my residence.