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

1944-03-05 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

March 5, 1944
Dear Mother,
Another Sunday afternoon, and a nice lazy time to write a letter or so. I have fixed up a fine desk for myself, a big carton with my suitcase on top of it and a newspaper on top of that. I suppose that now that I'm all set I'll get lazy.
I had lots of fun yesterday. Lucille Johnson, Lucy Bosshardt (a nurse from Des Moines) and I had lunch in New York, then went to Porgy and Bess. I had seen it before, but enjoyed it. Lucille was getting a cold, so left us after the show. Lucy and I went to a French restaurant, where we had an excellent meal, even steak and spumoni (a fancy Italian ice cream) for dessert. We got to visiting, and you'd never guess whom she knows. Willard! [D.W., Coughlin, Iowa MD 1932] She lives just a few doors from the house he bought his parents, and had dated him a little. We had a good visit, and I filled in the intervening years. After graduation, he went to Cleveland to interne. Then he went to Atlanta and taught surgery. He returned, I think she said, to be head of out patient clinic in Sioux City and Lucy was on that too and worked with him. She said he was the best surgeon she knew and was doing very well.

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March 5, 1944 Dear Mother, Another Sunday afternoon, and a nice lazy time to write a letter or so. I have fixed up a fine desk for myself, a big carton with my suitcase on top of it and a newspaper on top of that. I suppose that now that I'm all set I'll get lazy. I had lots of fun yesterday. Lucille Johnson, Lucy Bosshardt (a nurse from Des Moines) and I had lunch in New York, then went to Porgy and Bess. I had seen it before, but enjoyed it. Lucille was getting a cold, so left us after the show. Lucy and I went to a French restaurant, where we had an excellent meal, even steak and spumoni (a fancy Italian ice cream) for dessert. We got to visiting, and you'd never guess whom she knows. Willard! [D.W., Coughlin, Iowa MD 1932] She lives just a few doors from the house he bought his parents, and had dated him a little. We had a good visit, and I filled in the intervening years. After graduation, he went to Cleveland to interne. Then he went to Atlanta and taught surgery. He returned, I think she said, to be head of out patient clinic in Sioux City and Lucy was on that too and worked with him. She said he was the best surgeon she knew and was doing very well.