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

1944-05-01 Helen Angell to Mrs. Bess Peebles Page 2

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spreads are issued to us, so if you haven't sent the sheets and pillow cases, don't bother. If you have, I can always use them. I'm rooming with J. Aromson (dietician). Joyce and Helen are across the hall and (Gen) and Lin next to them. Polly Wilcox is a door (or) so down the hall, & the others are in other sections, but all close together. The officers and nurses mess is just two doors down the roofed ramp and has white tablecloths, china, silver and paper napkins. It also has lots of windows and French doors and a veranda. The Red Cross set-up is potentially immense. We have a nice brick building with tulips and a maid, just a few steps from here. It has two big front offices, one of which Joyce and Helen use and the other Lin and I. Then there is another large office back for Gen and a local secretary we got extra. We also inherited a librarian & craft worker, Nellie Glass. Then just off the PX (patients' post exchange) we have a recreation hall or lounge, with the library beyond that. Then a little walk from there, we have
 
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