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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 3

a Nissen hut which a huge craft shop just crammed with stuff & possibilities. Right now it is driving me crazy to get it organized & inventoried and get on with other details at the same time. The other girls had little system & the materials are scattered in the ten rooms and big main part of the hut. Housecleaning for sure! Yesterday I finished up the leather storeroom and today Jim & I almost finished the paint, paper, model airplane and salvage store room.  We have loads of copper shell casings. Tomorrow I shall try to finish that. In the afternoon Jim & I want to make the round of the wards we are allowed on. It is so much fun when you know the nurses and doctors. The craft house will see us again tomorrow night. We will be getting into the wools, felts, string & finally the wood & metal tools. I want to get it all fixed before we let the patients in. They have been helping us. This morning one brought me a big mug of

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a Nissen hut which a huge craft shop just crammed with stuff & possibilities. Right now it is driving me crazy to get it organized & inventoried and get on with other details at the same time. The other girls had little system & the materials are scattered in the ten rooms and big main part of the hut. Housecleaning for sure! Yesterday I finished up the leather storeroom and today Jim & I almost finished the paint, paper, model airplane and salvage store room. We have loads of copper shell casings. Tomorrow I shall try to finish that. In the afternoon Jim & I want to make the round of the wards we are allowed on. It is so much fun when you know the nurses and doctors. The craft house will see us again tomorrow night. We will be getting into the wools, felts, string & finally the wood & metal tools. I want to get it all fixed before we let the patients in. They have been helping us. This morning one brought me a big mug of