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Bess Peebles Fox letters to her daughter, 1943-1945
1945-07-09 Bess Peebles Fox to Helen Fox Page 2
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to put the following in box 57 which I'll mail tomorrow a box of cookies for bulk - Strawberry jam - 4 packets of rinse (I'll get a lot more and send off & on) - a film - some dried pears that I found at the Hawkeye Market - a small jar of hand creamer (will send more in the next boxes as I have 2 more jars here) - lots of Kotex - I am using new stationary & new stamps this time. Letter 22 came limping in after the one telling of your bomber tour - I was rather glad to know you were back safely before I read you were planning to go. As I told you before I had no sooner posted my howl about letters than they began coming with nice speed. Even cards are all right - just so I know you are well & happy - The card with your Hospital building on came today - My! what a beautiful place! I had no idea it was such a grand set up - What was it used for before the war? What kind of trees have they set out in the foreground? Look like fruit trees. Did you buy a bicycle or can you rent them? Isn't the place you went riding, when the breakthrough came? Who does craft work when the patients leave? Any idea yet about your next move? Nothing special happened here since I wrote you Thursday - Friday I got up early - not because I wanted to but because I saw a bug on the ceiling - got the vacuum cleaner and my glasses but the bug was gone but I was awake so stayed up. Worked all day long in back yard - It looks better Fran came out around 5 to sun bath - I baked a short cake and we had it and a glass of milk in the back yard as our supper. Sat I puttered around all over the place - put a coat of paint on a stool Fran gave me - It is like the square one she gave me that I made needlepoint for - only this is lower and oblong. I need it in my
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to put the following in box 57 which I'll mail tomorrow a box of cookies for bulk - Strawberry jam - 4 packets of rinse (I'll get a lot more and send off & on) - a film - some dried pears that I found at the Hawkeye Market - a small jar of hand creamer (will send more in the next boxes as I have 2 more jars here) - lots of Kotex - I am using new stationary & new stamps this time. Letter 22 came limping in after the one telling of your bomber tour - I was rather glad to know you were back safely before I read you were planning to go. As I told you before I had no sooner posted my howl about letters than they began coming with nice speed. Even cards are all right - just so I know you are well & happy - The card with your Hospital building on came today - My! what a beautiful place! I had no idea it was such a grand set up - What was it used for before the war? What kind of trees have they set out in the foreground? Look like fruit trees. Did you buy a bicycle or can you rent them? Isn't the place you went riding, when the breakthrough came? Who does craft work when the patients leave? Any idea yet about your next move? Nothing special happened here since I wrote you Thursday - Friday I got up early - not because I wanted to but because I saw a bug on the ceiling - got the vacuum cleaner and my glasses but the bug was gone but I was awake so stayed up. Worked all day long in back yard - It looks better Fran came out around 5 to sun bath - I baked a short cake and we had it and a glass of milk in the back yard as our supper. Sat I puttered around all over the place - put a coat of paint on a stool Fran gave me - It is like the square one she gave me that I made needlepoint for - only this is lower and oblong. I need it in my
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