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

1944-06-25 Helen Angell to Mrs. Bess Peebles Page 2

I now have three pillow cases.  Was that intentional?  Today I put on my own sheets & pillow case, as my laundry was slow in getting back.  We all wondered if the London laundry where they are sent had been bombed, as happened once last year.  It came later, however.
Yesterday we got our third wave of patients, including several Germans.  That brings us up to quite an establishment, about the size of Grandma Foxes town (written along side West Union, Iowa), not counting personnel.
They are a wild and interesting lot, and I don't envy their opponents.  They walk like panthers and I wish you could see them "infiltrate" into the lounge when it is supposed to be locked.  Every door can be locked and still they get in.  Yesterday I watched them.  They tipped in a loose pane of glass, released the catch, came in the door & put the glass back.
The craft shop is a scream.  At one moment I had a man who was boiling up plastic on the stove and muttering "I hope this doesn't explode", two who were attacking the waste basket with

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I now have three pillow cases. Was that intentional? Today I put on my own sheets & pillow case, as my laundry was slow in getting back. We all wondered if the London laundry where they are sent had been bombed, as happened once last year. It came later, however. Yesterday we got our third wave of patients, including several Germans. That brings us up to quite an establishment, about the size of Grandma Foxes town (written along side West Union, Iowa), not counting personnel. They are a wild and interesting lot, and I don't envy their opponents. They walk like panthers and I wish you could see them "infiltrate" into the lounge when it is supposed to be locked. Every door can be locked and still they get in. Yesterday I watched them. They tipped in a loose pane of glass, released the catch, came in the door & put the glass back. The craft shop is a scream. At one moment I had a man who was boiling up plastic on the stove and muttering "I hope this doesn't explode", two who were attacking the waste basket with