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Bess Peebles Fox letters to her daughter, 1943-1945
1945-05-12 Bess Peebles Fox to Helen Fox Page 1
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Sat. night. May 12 - 1945 Dear Helen - I giggled when I finished reading letter 12 today. All the way through I had been "deducing" and reading between the lines - when I got to the end I said to myself "aha ha, she is in Belgium". I looked to see when you wrote it and there by the date is said "Belgium"! Sounds most interesting and I presume you are glad of a chance to know well a different part of the country - Your weather sounds much like ours. I never heard of such a spring. March warm and perfectly delightful and April and thus far in May, cold rainy, windy and utterly horrid. Snow a couple days ago that went from 6 inches in the western part of the state to eight at Des Moines - We didn't get any but it did freeze hard. Tonights paper tells of 15 inch snow in the New England states yesterday. I hope you can get in touch with Roberta's (Jimmy?). Maybe you can look up Freddie's family - Are your new rommates nice? Where do they live? Got Mothers' Day letter from the Legion - a plant from the auxiliary - a card & handkie from Betty W. and yesterday a.m. Gretchen came with a gift of a pound of butter, a nice little cluster of gold violas & forget-me-nots tied in the top of it. - Grace Meyers sent me your picture & write-up from the paper and said to tell you the picture didn't do you justice - Betty W. came in a little while in the afternoon yesterday - had on a new blouse she had made and a hat to match it - looked very nifty. Gretchen also gave me some wallflower plants that I set out in the back yard before the daily rain came
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Sat. night. May 12 - 1945 Dear Helen - I giggled when I finished reading letter 12 today. All the way through I had been "deducing" and reading between the lines - when I got to the end I said to myself "aha ha, she is in Belgium". I looked to see when you wrote it and there by the date is said "Belgium"! Sounds most interesting and I presume you are glad of a chance to know well a different part of the country - Your weather sounds much like ours. I never heard of such a spring. March warm and perfectly delightful and April and thus far in May, cold rainy, windy and utterly horrid. Snow a couple days ago that went from 6 inches in the western part of the state to eight at Des Moines - We didn't get any but it did freeze hard. Tonights paper tells of 15 inch snow in the New England states yesterday. I hope you can get in touch with Roberta's (Jimmy?). Maybe you can look up Freddie's family - Are your new rommates nice? Where do they live? Got Mothers' Day letter from the Legion - a plant from the auxiliary - a card & handkie from Betty W. and yesterday a.m. Gretchen came with a gift of a pound of butter, a nice little cluster of gold violas & forget-me-nots tied in the top of it. - Grace Meyers sent me your picture & write-up from the paper and said to tell you the picture didn't do you justice - Betty W. came in a little while in the afternoon yesterday - had on a new blouse she had made and a hat to match it - looked very nifty. Gretchen also gave me some wallflower plants that I set out in the back yard before the daily rain came
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