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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, April-September 1945

1945-04-20 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

April 20, 1945
Dear Mother,
[note in margin: We couldn't take a subway because of the garlic smell there!]
They tell me it will be three or four weeks now before I'll get any mail, so I'll just keep writing as I can.
I called Herb Smith yesterday and met him here at the hotel last night. He looks well and we had a fine visit. Unfortunately I was seized with a rather upset tummy just about the time he called for me so we had to take a slow stroll along the Champs Elysies from bench to bench instead of going in anywhere it was warm. I told him I couldn't think if anyone I'd rather be ill with! I'm much better today and guess it was just one of those things that are so common in the army, what with mass feeding, change of water, etc. (It was a French soft drink)
Today we had meetings all day and now are free till Monday, when we go in to get our assignments. Of course we are excited and can hardly wait. On my way to the hotel after the meeting I ran into Bertha [Heetland?] one of the Tri Delts. She has been an army hostess for a couple of years and now is organizing clubs all over the continent. Then in the hotel I met a Red Cross girl who used to be the Assistant Field Director at Schick hospital. She had visited the 91st because she knew so many of the personnel and I had met her there. Her special friends were Jay and Johnnie, so we are now both watching for Johnnie. I do hope she

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April 20, 1945 Dear Mother, [note in margin: We couldn't take a subway because of the garlic smell there!] They tell me it will be three or four weeks now before I'll get any mail, so I'll just keep writing as I can. I called Herb Smith yesterday and met him here at the hotel last night. He looks well and we had a fine visit. Unfortunately I was seized with a rather upset tummy just about the time he called for me so we had to take a slow stroll along the Champs Elysies from bench to bench instead of going in anywhere it was warm. I told him I couldn't think if anyone I'd rather be ill with! I'm much better today and guess it was just one of those things that are so common in the army, what with mass feeding, change of water, etc. (It was a French soft drink) Today we had meetings all day and now are free till Monday, when we go in to get our assignments. Of course we are excited and can hardly wait. On my way to the hotel after the meeting I ran into Bertha [Heetland?] one of the Tri Delts. She has been an army hostess for a couple of years and now is organizing clubs all over the continent. Then in the hotel I met a Red Cross girl who used to be the Assistant Field Director at Schick hospital. She had visited the 91st because she knew so many of the personnel and I had met her there. Her special friends were Jay and Johnnie, so we are now both watching for Johnnie. I do hope she