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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, October-December 1943

1943-11-17 Page 3

shots tomorrow, also take 3rd tetanus, 1st typhus, & only smallpox. That is, I hope we can get all those tomorrow. I don't want them to gang up at the end. 
Did you get my letter written Monday night in Washington? I wrote it in a great hurry & then forgot to mail it or four cards I had written. I gave them to the porter, & he swore he'd mailed them when I asked next A. M.
This house has one of those funny copper bathtubs that are long enough to swim in. I want to try it. It clean & neat, but very old-fashioned. 
It cleared off today & the snow is melted. It's decidedly colder than in Washington, however. It will seem like home to get back there, as I got rather fond of the place. 
Time to wash stockings now. I brought the black Gladstone. It was heavy as the deuce & I'm going to lighten my overseas one considerably.  I was lucky in having kind sergeants around to lug it for me this time but that might not always be the case. 
Too bad about the cake. I am glad it wasn't something like a tomato, though.

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shots tomorrow, also take 3rd tetanus, 1st typhus, & only smallpox. That is, I hope we can get all those tomorrow. I don't want them to gang up at the end. Did you get my letter written Monday night in Washington? I wrote it in a great hurry & then forgot to mail it or four cards I had written. I gave them to the porter, & he swore he'd mailed them when I asked next A. M. This house has one of those funny copper bathtubs that are long enough to swim in. I want to try it. It clean & neat, but very old-fashioned. It cleared off today & the snow is melted. It's decidedly colder than in Washington, however. It will seem like home to get back there, as I got rather fond of the place. Time to wash stockings now. I brought the black Gladstone. It was heavy as the deuce & I'm going to lighten my overseas one considerably. I was lucky in having kind sergeants around to lug it for me this time but that might not always be the case. Too bad about the cake. I am glad it wasn't something like a tomato, though.