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

1945-01-06 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

January 6, 1945
Dear Mother,
How awful to be so late in starting the new year of letter writing.  We've been just hopping the last week, or at least I have.  There's been inventory, change in shophours, taking over part of Helen C's staff aide work, clearing up Christmas decorations and restocking the felt toys supply.
We've gotten a bit of mail.  Your sixty three, four and five came and package twenty three.  The package was very nice, and came in perfect condition.  We've already eaten the candy bars and the figs and the soup.  The soup is lovely, and we have more fun making it.  We have a saucepan now, so don't have to pull noodles out of the spout of the tea kettle.  We've put the luncheon tongue away for company.  I still have some of the Argentine chocolate from previous packages.  It seems to go rather slowly, as it is so hard to bite.  We've tried making it into drinking chocolate, but with poor success.  Now I'm toying with the idea of fudge, but you'd better go slow on it till we see.
We really started the new year with a full day.  We were talking to patients all day long.  There were about seven or eight questions we had to ask every patient in the hospital.  Mrs. Goddard and I did a good chunk of wards as our share, and were exhausted by the end of the afternoon.  We had to arrange for free rations and an issue of free toilet articles for men brought in without anything, tell them about exchange of foreign currency and change of address for their familys, send cables for them, take requests for anything they wanted, give them pencils, paper, v-mail, etc.

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January 6, 1945 Dear Mother, How awful to be so late in starting the new year of letter writing. We've been just hopping the last week, or at least I have. There's been inventory, change in shophours, taking over part of Helen C's staff aide work, clearing up Christmas decorations and restocking the felt toys supply. We've gotten a bit of mail. Your sixty three, four and five came and package twenty three. The package was very nice, and came in perfect condition. We've already eaten the candy bars and the figs and the soup. The soup is lovely, and we have more fun making it. We have a saucepan now, so don't have to pull noodles out of the spout of the tea kettle. We've put the luncheon tongue away for company. I still have some of the Argentine chocolate from previous packages. It seems to go rather slowly, as it is so hard to bite. We've tried making it into drinking chocolate, but with poor success. Now I'm toying with the idea of fudge, but you'd better go slow on it till we see. We really started the new year with a full day. We were talking to patients all day long. There were about seven or eight questions we had to ask every patient in the hospital. Mrs. Goddard and I did a good chunk of wards as our share, and were exhausted by the end of the afternoon. We had to arrange for free rations and an issue of free toilet articles for men brought in without anything, tell them about exchange of foreign currency and change of address for their familys, send cables for them, take requests for anything they wanted, give them pencils, paper, v-mail, etc.