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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, July 1944-April 1945

1944-09-13 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

Pictures - (1) Washing mess kits in Wales. Left to right. Lin, Joyce (Jay in background), Helen C., Gen & I. (2) Nurses in our unit, also in Wales. One standing facing front is Mary Keating, from Iowa City.
September 13, 1944
Dear Mother,
I got letters twenty-five and six from you, one from Mary, and package eight from you and three from Betty yesterday. Packages first. Everything came well and much has already been consumed. I had a can of Vienna sausages today, as I slept too late to get lunch. It was my first day off with nothing planned and I'm enjoying it. The Plymouth trip meant giving up free time for a couple of weeks. I had planned to go to London yesterday & today, but decided that with the crowds of evacuees coming back it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Joyce went in yesterday and is going to see if she can find a small piece of Wedgewood suitable for a ring, which I'd like to send Mary. I think she'd like it and it would be more characteristic of the place than anything else I can think of. The fig bars, wafers and canned things

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Pictures - (1) Washing mess kits in Wales. Left to right. Lin, Joyce (Jay in background), Helen C., Gen & I. (2) Nurses in our unit, also in Wales. One standing facing front is Mary Keating, from Iowa City. September 13, 1944 Dear Mother, I got letters twenty-five and six from you, one from Mary, and package eight from you and three from Betty yesterday. Packages first. Everything came well and much has already been consumed. I had a can of Vienna sausages today, as I slept too late to get lunch. It was my first day off with nothing planned and I'm enjoying it. The Plymouth trip meant giving up free time for a couple of weeks. I had planned to go to London yesterday & today, but decided that with the crowds of evacuees coming back it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Joyce went in yesterday and is going to see if she can find a small piece of Wedgewood suitable for a ring, which I'd like to send Mary. I think she'd like it and it would be more characteristic of the place than anything else I can think of. The fig bars, wafers and canned things