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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, October-December 1943
1943-12-19 Page 1
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[Reviewer: please double-check the date; I'm sure it says Dec. 17, not 19, as the date assigned to the letter states. Thank you!] [Dec. 17, 1943] Friday night Dear Mother, After our careful plans about one letter a week, I don't exactly know why this deluge of correspondence on my part. Maybe I want to pour out my soul before encountering censorship. Maybe I want to make up for the long empty space that will be coming. It may be quite long, too. Don't worry about it because you think the trip shouldn't take long. We might be in port for several weeks or even months before even sailing and orders might change so that the destination was different. Julia phoned today to say that the Christmas plans depended largely on what germs George brought back from his Chicago trip. She also said she was sending you an article she thought you'd like. You'll tend to turning in my ration books won't you? I have to state that they have been turned in as part of clearing, so you'd better do it, or at least offer to do it shortly after Christmas. Today I got an extra shoe stamp & spent it at Sears along with $3.95. The shoes looked just
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[Reviewer: please double-check the date; I'm sure it says Dec. 17, not 19, as the date assigned to the letter states. Thank you!] [Dec. 17, 1943] Friday night Dear Mother, After our careful plans about one letter a week, I don't exactly know why this deluge of correspondence on my part. Maybe I want to pour out my soul before encountering censorship. Maybe I want to make up for the long empty space that will be coming. It may be quite long, too. Don't worry about it because you think the trip shouldn't take long. We might be in port for several weeks or even months before even sailing and orders might change so that the destination was different. Julia phoned today to say that the Christmas plans depended largely on what germs George brought back from his Chicago trip. She also said she was sending you an article she thought you'd like. You'll tend to turning in my ration books won't you? I have to state that they have been turned in as part of clearing, so you'd better do it, or at least offer to do it shortly after Christmas. Today I got an extra shoe stamp & spent it at Sears along with $3.95. The shoes looked just
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