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

1945-06-14 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

Criney, Belgium
June 14, 1945
Dear Mother,
I just got your letters 58 & 59 today, so will sandwich in a brief letter between visiting with the men in the shop. The man across the table is making a hooked rug for his home in California.
It is still cold, so I haven't done the swimming out in the pool here as I hope to. It's a very nice place, and just at the side of the chateau.
What a miserable hail storm to have just at the wrong time for the fruit! I guess that must have taken care of the apricots.
I guess I wrote you Friday.
Saturday night I went to the dance at the club with Lt. Skinner, an infantry officer who is a very good dancer. You know, I'm afraid that without intending to in the least I have embarked upon jitterbugging. At least it seems to be a mild form of it.
Sunday night I went to bed fairly early, and Monday night I spent the evening in the club with a couple of air corps officers and a couple of

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Criney, Belgium June 14, 1945 Dear Mother, I just got your letters 58 & 59 today, so will sandwich in a brief letter between visiting with the men in the shop. The man across the table is making a hooked rug for his home in California. It is still cold, so I haven't done the swimming out in the pool here as I hope to. It's a very nice place, and just at the side of the chateau. What a miserable hail storm to have just at the wrong time for the fruit! I guess that must have taken care of the apricots. I guess I wrote you Friday. Saturday night I went to the dance at the club with Lt. Skinner, an infantry officer who is a very good dancer. You know, I'm afraid that without intending to in the least I have embarked upon jitterbugging. At least it seems to be a mild form of it. Sunday night I went to bed fairly early, and Monday night I spent the evening in the club with a couple of air corps officers and a couple of