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

1945-05-06 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

men walked part way with me and gave me a big heavy spray of double lilacs to bring home.
Saturday we had a carnival at the hall here and I ran a game like Bingo from 6:30-8:30. Then an infantry lieutenant, one of the convalescing patients, asked me to the officers club. We had a few drinks, a few dances and talked a lot. He had had some very interesting experiences. N.B. His wife is from Council Bluffs, so don't get excited. Today I slept late. I needed to, as while I went to bed about 1:30, my two roommates came in about six this morning. Besides, from about that time on, the Belgian help and the German PW's shriek in the corridors and drop tin garbage pails down the stairs and do carpenter work in the attic. I don't know who is more N.P., [note between lines: neuropsychopathic] the patients or the personnel.
I worked this afternoon, and then this evening it stopped raining a little, so Ruth Scott, the AFD, Lorette Brininger & Lucy Adams (other Rec. workers) & I took a nice hike along a road with lovely scenery.
Love,
Helen
P.S. I'm homesick for Oxford! Am I doomed to ply the ocean the rest of my life?
Note: I didn't get back to Oxford till 1967

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men walked part way with me and gave me a big heavy spray of double lilacs to bring home. Saturday we had a carnival at the hall here and I ran a game like Bingo from 6:30-8:30. Then an infantry lieutenant, one of the convalescing patients, asked me to the officers club. We had a few drinks, a few dances and talked a lot. He had had some very interesting experiences. N.B. His wife is from Council Bluffs, so don't get excited. Today I slept late. I needed to, as while I went to bed about 1:30, my two roommates came in about six this morning. Besides, from about that time on, the Belgian help and the German PW's shriek in the corridors and drop tin garbage pails down the stairs and do carpenter work in the attic. I don't know who is more N.P., [note between lines: neuropsychopathic] the patients or the personnel. I worked this afternoon, and then this evening it stopped raining a little, so Ruth Scott, the AFD, Lorette Brininger & Lucy Adams (other Rec. workers) & I took a nice hike along a road with lovely scenery. Love, Helen P.S. I'm homesick for Oxford! Am I doomed to ply the ocean the rest of my life? Note: I didn't get back to Oxford till 1967