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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, October-December 1943
1943-12-26 Page 1
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[Dec 26, 1943] Sunday Dear Mother, The weather has been very nasty the past two days, so I have stayed in and worked and read and written letters. It was such fun opening the package. As I told you on the back of my last letter I went to get it Friday morning. When I phoned to see if it had come, the girl laughed and said it was about two feet square, but she thought I could manage it. By the time I got back, it was quite cold and looked rainy, so I didn't go to the White House, after all. I noticed in the paper that Roosevelt had gone to Hyde Park, and didn't care to stand in the cold just to hear a radio speech. So I opened my package. I was pleased that the housecoat wasn't as bulky as I had remembered it. The boxes of cookies & candy and the popcorn ball were more welcome than I would have thought possible. Usually they are background, but this time they starred! I ate the popcorn ball at once, while I real C/O Postmaster. Wasn't it good? The cookies are almost all gone & so is the candy. Christmas morning Julia phoned & visited awhile. She was sorry not to celebrate, but said she couldn't get a turkey and that they were all trying to head off the flu. I slept rather late, as I had gone to a movie "Jack London" on Christmas Eve. The stage show was very good, carol singing and a swell puppet show. At noon Christmas I had a hamburger & glass of milk & then went to another movie "Hostages". It was quite an orgy, as I hadn't been to one for months. Then I ate dinner at a hotel and came home & read. I read Emily Kimbrough's "We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood" and am now reading "A Tree Grows
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[Dec 26, 1943] Sunday Dear Mother, The weather has been very nasty the past two days, so I have stayed in and worked and read and written letters. It was such fun opening the package. As I told you on the back of my last letter I went to get it Friday morning. When I phoned to see if it had come, the girl laughed and said it was about two feet square, but she thought I could manage it. By the time I got back, it was quite cold and looked rainy, so I didn't go to the White House, after all. I noticed in the paper that Roosevelt had gone to Hyde Park, and didn't care to stand in the cold just to hear a radio speech. So I opened my package. I was pleased that the housecoat wasn't as bulky as I had remembered it. The boxes of cookies & candy and the popcorn ball were more welcome than I would have thought possible. Usually they are background, but this time they starred! I ate the popcorn ball at once, while I real C/O Postmaster. Wasn't it good? The cookies are almost all gone & so is the candy. Christmas morning Julia phoned & visited awhile. She was sorry not to celebrate, but said she couldn't get a turkey and that they were all trying to head off the flu. I slept rather late, as I had gone to a movie "Jack London" on Christmas Eve. The stage show was very good, carol singing and a swell puppet show. At noon Christmas I had a hamburger & glass of milk & then went to another movie "Hostages". It was quite an orgy, as I hadn't been to one for months. Then I ate dinner at a hotel and came home & read. I read Emily Kimbrough's "We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood" and am now reading "A Tree Grows
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