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

1944-11-04 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

in the Canadian Army, is stationed in London most of the time and billets with these people, whom he met in Montreal. Mr. Janner is a solicitor and used to be a member of Parliament. They have a beautiful ten room flat at Lancaster Terrace, just off Bayswater Road. She gave us a key and we came & went as we wished. Due to the fact that a bedroom or so was missing from the back of the house, we slept in what used to be one of the drawing rooms. The softest beds [note in margin: From the Queen Mary, when it was stripped down as troop ship] I've ever been in. I told Jay it was like sleeping in whipped cream. The room had a very high ceiling with lovely creamy walls and leaf moulding around the top, a fireplace, a Steinway piano, lovely Louis XV chairs and a ping pong table.
We went to see Westminster Abbey Wed. when we got in and walked around Trafalgar & Big Ben & Piccadilly. We ate at a small French restaurant and went to a play called Pink String and Sealing Wax. Rather good. It was over about nine, and we went back to Janners.  It was her birthday so there were guests and we had a cold supper, ending with fruit cake and champagne the major had brought from Paris.

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in the Canadian Army, is stationed in London most of the time and billets with these people, whom he met in Montreal. Mr. Janner is a solicitor and used to be a member of Parliament. They have a beautiful ten room flat at Lancaster Terrace, just off Bayswater Road. She gave us a key and we came & went as we wished. Due to the fact that a bedroom or so was missing from the back of the house, we slept in what used to be one of the drawing rooms. The softest beds [note in margin: From the Queen Mary, when it was stripped down as troop ship] I've ever been in. I told Jay it was like sleeping in whipped cream. The room had a very high ceiling with lovely creamy walls and leaf moulding around the top, a fireplace, a Steinway piano, lovely Louis XV chairs and a ping pong table. We went to see Westminster Abbey Wed. when we got in and walked around Trafalgar & Big Ben & Piccadilly. We ate at a small French restaurant and went to a play called Pink String and Sealing Wax. Rather good. It was over about nine, and we went back to Janners. It was her birthday so there were guests and we had a cold supper, ending with fruit cake and champagne the major had brought from Paris.