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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, April-September 1945

1945-05-24 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

hardly wait to get it sent off. The olives Naomi and I ate as we both love them. We had them with a can of tuna fish (Esthers) on crackers (mine) night before last. Today I had a pleasant surprise: Jimmy Galbraith phoned on his way from Brussels back to his work in Germany. It was good to hear him. He says if he gets back within a hundred miles he'll come see me. When I sent off Mme. Houis' box I sent Jay one of some wooden napkin rings and you a box of miscellaneous gifts from Namur for you and various other people. Give them away now or save them for Christmas as you like. I had a grand time in Paris. They took me by ambulance to Namur after work Thursday night. There I took the Vivieres leave train at about midnight and got into Paris about noon the next day. The train commander, a Major, was very nice and I had a compartment to myself. The train stopped at Soissons about eight in the morning and all the officers and the two nurses in the next compartment and I got off for coffee and doughnuts at the Red Cross canteen. There were about eight or nine hundred G.i's on the train too, so

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hardly wait to get it sent off. The olives Naomi and I ate as we both love them. We had them with a can of tuna fish (Esthers) on crackers (mine) night before last. Today I had a pleasant surprise: Jimmy Galbraith phoned on his way from Brussels back to his work in Germany. It was good to hear him. He says if he gets back within a hundred miles he'll come see me. When I sent off Mme. Houis' box I sent Jay one of some wooden napkin rings and you a box of miscellaneous gifts from Namur for you and various other people. Give them away now or save them for Christmas as you like. I had a grand time in Paris. They took me by ambulance to Namur after work Thursday night. There I took the Vivieres leave train at about midnight and got into Paris about noon the next day. The train commander, a Major, was very nice and I had a compartment to myself. The train stopped at Soissons about eight in the morning and all the officers and the two nurses in the next compartment and I got off for coffee and doughnuts at the Red Cross canteen. There were about eight or nine hundred G.i's on the train too, so