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Miscellaneous letters to Helen Fox, 1933-1945

1942-08-27 Freddy to Helen Fox Page 1

Letter 7.
Answer to Letter No 2.
[Summer Season?]
En Compagne 27-8-42.
My Dear Helen,
It was fine on my return from leave in [Louton?] this morning to find a nice long letter from you dear. Honestly I was hungry for news & didn't it come up to my expectations. I'll say it did! for I am always home sick. like whenever I come back from leaves or week end. Don't think I am not pleased to take back my job & do the work. I am. But still I don't think I was born to be a soldier! I think I've told you I spent my leave with a lady teacher former university prof. an old friend of my former Rector. She is always so kind & motherly to me & try to make me feel at home. She 51 & still teach in one of the London Primary School. She has two sis. who teach also near London so I feel quite at ease. But I expect if you had been in England you would have but the preference -- for you'll admit -- that people of same age do understand one another still better. I tease her a bit at times but she can take it & we've had some good fun for the last few days. I tell her she is a terrible chaterbox ... she does the talking & as [illegible] would put it, [remainder of sentence in French]. She does not like the young children she teaches, so I tell her it is for her betterment. "Just what the Doc ordered as you put it in America." "You are telling me" you must hear her saying that with the very American accent.
Don't blame me if my writing paper is of the cheap quality. There's a war on you know, Dear!

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Letter 7. Answer to Letter No 2. [Summer Season?] En Compagne 27-8-42. My Dear Helen, It was fine on my return from leave in [Louton?] this morning to find a nice long letter from you dear. Honestly I was hungry for news & didn't it come up to my expectations. I'll say it did! for I am always home sick. like whenever I come back from leaves or week end. Don't think I am not pleased to take back my job & do the work. I am. But still I don't think I was born to be a soldier! I think I've told you I spent my leave with a lady teacher former university prof. an old friend of my former Rector. She is always so kind & motherly to me & try to make me feel at home. She 51 & still teach in one of the London Primary School. She has two sis. who teach also near London so I feel quite at ease. But I expect if you had been in England you would have but the preference -- for you'll admit -- that people of same age do understand one another still better. I tease her a bit at times but she can take it & we've had some good fun for the last few days. I tell her she is a terrible chaterbox ... she does the talking & as [illegible] would put it, [remainder of sentence in French]. She does not like the young children she teaches, so I tell her it is for her betterment. "Just what the Doc ordered as you put it in America." "You are telling me" you must hear her saying that with the very American accent. Don't blame me if my writing paper is of the cheap quality. There's a war on you know, Dear!