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

1944-05-07 Helen Angell to Mrs. Bess Peebles Page 1

May 7, 1944
Dear Mother,
I got the missing letter, sixty-eight, yesterday and the package with the polish today. So far no sign of the 5-lb package. I promptly ate the hard candy and have just finished a glass of hot chocolate. Joy isn't here tonight to share it, as she and Lin went on a day off. I've thought of something else I'd like a lot. Could you send me a box of assorted packages of cookies---those Uneeda things? I think they'd come well and would be good for us and for company.
We hope to set out our tomato plants tomorrow. They are blooming, and Dorothy's Ted [note in margin: A cook in our unit. Worked in Aldous [Greenhouse?] in Iowa City.], whom I finally talked with yesterday, said they should go out. We also are going to spade a garden behind the Red Cross office and plant things.
It was nice of that soldier to write about the book, wasn't it? 
The Harshbargers [note between lines: Interested in planes. [Illegible] out - U.S. in daytime] would be delighted this evening and tonight. I'd never even imagined such activity. It's exciting.
We got our mail on the way [that was put on with us?]. Nice, wasn't it
The fifty dollars will come twice a month. I'm glad they are caught up. I'm saving at this end, too. I'm going to start

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May 7, 1944 Dear Mother, I got the missing letter, sixty-eight, yesterday and the package with the polish today. So far no sign of the 5-lb package. I promptly ate the hard candy and have just finished a glass of hot chocolate. Joy isn't here tonight to share it, as she and Lin went on a day off. I've thought of something else I'd like a lot. Could you send me a box of assorted packages of cookies---those Uneeda things? I think they'd come well and would be good for us and for company. We hope to set out our tomato plants tomorrow. They are blooming, and Dorothy's Ted [note in margin: A cook in our unit. Worked in Aldous [Greenhouse?] in Iowa City.], whom I finally talked with yesterday, said they should go out. We also are going to spade a garden behind the Red Cross office and plant things. It was nice of that soldier to write about the book, wasn't it? The Harshbargers [note between lines: Interested in planes. [Illegible] out - U.S. in daytime] would be delighted this evening and tonight. I'd never even imagined such activity. It's exciting. We got our mail on the way [that was put on with us?]. Nice, wasn't it The fifty dollars will come twice a month. I'm glad they are caught up. I'm saving at this end, too. I'm going to start