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

1944-10-03 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

By the waym will you order the American [illegible] for Maureen for Christmas, please? She loves it and it gets lots of use.
My, what a buzzing and humming overhead!
How nice that Agnes and Kenneth [note between lines: K. [Meborne?] [illegible] in Bakersfield, Calif] are having a baby! Now he can use his marbles, or whatever it was he was saving.
I'm glad you want to stay home, but wanted you to feel free to do as you liked.
I don't know where Freddy is now. I think i'll write to his wife, Winifred.
If you see any kind of canned or dehydrated soup you think would be good, I'd love some. Also sardines, even big ones.
Rhubarb was perfectly correct. What you lack is confidence. (Mother skipped grades in [illegible] school and her spelling was "shaky.")
The cart in the picture is taken just outside the wards. Col. Dyke doesn't like tracks on the floor!
No, I don't have a new APO. I just have one I can use when I don't want to use my unit number as a return. I'll explain about it sometime. I'll send the etchings when I go into London, too.

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By the waym will you order the American [illegible] for Maureen for Christmas, please? She loves it and it gets lots of use. My, what a buzzing and humming overhead! How nice that Agnes and Kenneth [note between lines: K. [Meborne?] [illegible] in Bakersfield, Calif] are having a baby! Now he can use his marbles, or whatever it was he was saving. I'm glad you want to stay home, but wanted you to feel free to do as you liked. I don't know where Freddy is now. I think i'll write to his wife, Winifred. If you see any kind of canned or dehydrated soup you think would be good, I'd love some. Also sardines, even big ones. Rhubarb was perfectly correct. What you lack is confidence. (Mother skipped grades in [illegible] school and her spelling was "shaky.") The cart in the picture is taken just outside the wards. Col. Dyke doesn't like tracks on the floor! No, I don't have a new APO. I just have one I can use when I don't want to use my unit number as a return. I'll explain about it sometime. I'll send the etchings when I go into London, too.