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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 2

comes in before I leave. She'd be in this same hotel, so I have a fair chance of finding her. Col. Packer Dean Packer from SUI answered the phone when I called Herb, and sends his regards to us. Harriet Fry, who was in many of my classes at Iowa, is in headquarters here. Just like old home week, isn't it? We eat in a special Red Cross mess, which is a lovely restaurant and is entirely free. We live in a small hotel, also free. We don't pay to ride the Metro or to go to a movie. What can the post war world offer to beat that? By the way, my salary checks may falter or change temporarily. They shouldn't as far as your end of it is concerned, but mine here will accumulate a couple of times, due to the change in location. Tonight I walked down to Notre Dame alone to see if the Brittany ware shop was still there. It was. I started alone, but picked up a Tommy and three ATs on the way and two G.I's on the way back. We don't dare hesitate at a street crossing, or we become an information bureau for some lonesome kid. We hailed a jeep and rode to mess in style, as we were a little late. The driver, when he heard we were unassigned as yet, tried to bribe us into coming to his unit by promising

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comes in before I leave. She'd be in this same hotel, so I have a fair chance of finding her. Col. Packer Dean Packer from SUI answered the phone when I called Herb, and sends his regards to us. Harriet Fry, who was in many of my classes at Iowa, is in headquarters here. Just like old home week, isn't it? We eat in a special Red Cross mess, which is a lovely restaurant and is entirely free. We live in a small hotel, also free. We don't pay to ride the Metro or to go to a movie. What can the post war world offer to beat that? By the way, my salary checks may falter or change temporarily. They shouldn't as far as your end of it is concerned, but mine here will accumulate a couple of times, due to the change in location. Tonight I walked down to Notre Dame alone to see if the Brittany ware shop was still there. It was. I started alone, but picked up a Tommy and three ATs on the way and two G.I's on the way back. We don't dare hesitate at a street crossing, or we become an information bureau for some lonesome kid. We hailed a jeep and rode to mess in style, as we were a little late. The driver, when he heard we were unassigned as yet, tried to bribe us into coming to his unit by promising