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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, July 1944-April 1945

1944-08-06 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

numbers one o seven to one ten inclusive.   You had two one o sevens, did you know?
We've been tearing around so that Joyce decided we needed an extra day, so we are off all day this Sunday. Polly and I had decided to take quite a bicycle jaunt, but she got into a tea engagement and we are going about 5. The kitchen fixed us a picnic supper that I think includes hard boiled eggs, fried chicken and canned grapefruit. I've bicycled  about twenty miles this afternoon already, with a girl from Wyoming. The weather has been beautiful for about a week, during which I've been so tied up except for the Stratford trip that I  haven't even bicycled. Nellie Glass, the library girl, worked too hard and got worn out so that she's a patient for a week or so, and Lui and I have had to divide her work pretty much. We have good volunteers, but it means another evening a week for each of us in the lounge. Then, too, we've been very busy with the comfort articles. I'll tell you more about that later. 
Today when we were riding we saw

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numbers one o seven to one ten inclusive. You had two one o sevens, did you know? We've been tearing around so that Joyce decided we needed an extra day, so we are off all day this Sunday. Polly and I had decided to take quite a bicycle jaunt, but she got into a tea engagement and we are going about 5. The kitchen fixed us a picnic supper that I think includes hard boiled eggs, fried chicken and canned grapefruit. I've bicycled about twenty miles this afternoon already, with a girl from Wyoming. The weather has been beautiful for about a week, during which I've been so tied up except for the Stratford trip that I haven't even bicycled. Nellie Glass, the library girl, worked too hard and got worn out so that she's a patient for a week or so, and Lui and I have had to divide her work pretty much. We have good volunteers, but it means another evening a week for each of us in the lounge. Then, too, we've been very busy with the comfort articles. I'll tell you more about that later. Today when we were riding we saw