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Bess Peebles Fox letters to her daughter, 1943-1945

1944-12-11 Bess Peebles Fox to Helen Fox Page 2

good players - Pops left his first team in only a short time then his 2nd kept right on scoring, then his 3rd and before the game ended the 4th & 5th were in and still running up the score.
Nice picture of Jay's kitchen & spoon - What a Whopper!  Are any of the boys Dorothy's Ted?  What do they have in the big pans?  Betty brought her sewing up the afternoon and she thought it was escalloped potatoes - looks too crumbly for that, to me - Betty says the (Grelersains?) are leaving along the middle of next month - Ted had an offer from Calif. that was just too good to turn down - I saw Helen in the Co-Op about a week ago & she told me about it but they were still debating about it - He had a good offer in Little Rock, Ark. a while ago and went down to investigate it - the offer was grand, but he said he couldn't stand it to live there.
Yes I have your 45.00 tax receipt for the last time (illegible) I think it wa 1943 - as the income was small - as I remember it it was for the spring salary in Milwaukee and two months in Washington.  I'll stop in the P.O. and ask Mr. Condon about it and let you know.  
I didn't know till I got your letter today that Betty W. had sent you a box beside the "winter" seat cover she had me put in one of my boxes for you.  She said the winter one was late in coming - Her brother is now in Holland.
Glad you heard from Dora and hope you can see her before too long.  Is she Red Cross or Army?  I hope if she visits Maureen she'll think to take her food stamps.  She is such a crazy bat, one never knows.
That raid over Germany today must have been something.  Radio said over 17,000 (no it couldn't have been that many) planes.  Said the formation was 300 miles long - am I way off?
We are snowed under here - It started in Sat. night and kept it up all day yesterday - 14 inches in all - the light, dry kind - I could almost sweep it off this morning - made a long

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good players - Pops left his first team in only a short time then his 2nd kept right on scoring, then his 3rd and before the game ended the 4th & 5th were in and still running up the score. Nice picture of Jay's kitchen & spoon - What a Whopper! Are any of the boys Dorothy's Ted? What do they have in the big pans? Betty brought her sewing up the afternoon and she thought it was escalloped potatoes - looks too crumbly for that, to me - Betty says the (Grelersains?) are leaving along the middle of next month - Ted had an offer from Calif. that was just too good to turn down - I saw Helen in the Co-Op about a week ago & she told me about it but they were still debating about it - He had a good offer in Little Rock, Ark. a while ago and went down to investigate it - the offer was grand, but he said he couldn't stand it to live there. Yes I have your 45.00 tax receipt for the last time (illegible) I think it wa 1943 - as the income was small - as I remember it it was for the spring salary in Milwaukee and two months in Washington. I'll stop in the P.O. and ask Mr. Condon about it and let you know. I didn't know till I got your letter today that Betty W. had sent you a box beside the "winter" seat cover she had me put in one of my boxes for you. She said the winter one was late in coming - Her brother is now in Holland. Glad you heard from Dora and hope you can see her before too long. Is she Red Cross or Army? I hope if she visits Maureen she'll think to take her food stamps. She is such a crazy bat, one never knows. That raid over Germany today must have been something. Radio said over 17,000 (no it couldn't have been that many) planes. Said the formation was 300 miles long - am I way off? We are snowed under here - It started in Sat. night and kept it up all day yesterday - 14 inches in all - the light, dry kind - I could almost sweep it off this morning - made a long