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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, October-December 1943
1943-11-11 Page 1
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Thursday evening [Nov. 11, 1943] Dear Mother, I'm writing this on the table of a restaurant called the "400" while I wait for Peggy Cobb to finish her double lamb-chop. We have just come back from an afternoon's trip to St Elizabeths, the big Federal hospital for mental patients near here. I am to go out to Julia McGaruey's for dinner Sunday- am to take a bus to the end of the line in Bethesda, then look for George, who she says is fat & bald & grey & in a light blue Cadillac. I think it will be fun. She said they had spent the last 2 weeks enclosing the pergola. I'm returning the ration book post - haste, having spent the shoe coupon last night for a lovely pair of low heeled (med.) black pumps which are regulation & can be worn with uniform off duty. I want to get some more pencils, send for some more blue shirts at Sears & have them keep them till I return. I hope the iron gets here before I leave Monday. I've made such good friends here I rather hate to part from them. We're going to keep in touch, though & visit each other after the war. Pen's running out of ink & Peggy's through so, Love, Helen
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Thursday evening [Nov. 11, 1943] Dear Mother, I'm writing this on the table of a restaurant called the "400" while I wait for Peggy Cobb to finish her double lamb-chop. We have just come back from an afternoon's trip to St Elizabeths, the big Federal hospital for mental patients near here. I am to go out to Julia McGaruey's for dinner Sunday- am to take a bus to the end of the line in Bethesda, then look for George, who she says is fat & bald & grey & in a light blue Cadillac. I think it will be fun. She said they had spent the last 2 weeks enclosing the pergola. I'm returning the ration book post - haste, having spent the shoe coupon last night for a lovely pair of low heeled (med.) black pumps which are regulation & can be worn with uniform off duty. I want to get some more pencils, send for some more blue shirts at Sears & have them keep them till I return. I hope the iron gets here before I leave Monday. I've made such good friends here I rather hate to part from them. We're going to keep in touch, though & visit each other after the war. Pen's running out of ink & Peggy's through so, Love, Helen
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