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Miscellaneous letters to Helen Fox, 1933-1945

1944-09-10 Mary Bess Doty to Helen Fox Page 2

I've learned ever so much about crafts from the fellows and am crazy about it.  Here, as every place else there are lots of swell patients and I really like the work, the island and all.  New Caledonia is a French island about 250 miles long and besides French has Australian, Javanese, Tonkanese, Indo-Chinese, Kanahas (island natives) and no doubt others.  There are New Zealand army units here too, as well as Fijians and a few other island people from near by who are working for one government or another.  The people all dress in native attire and so there is much variety.  The natives and the Tonkanese & Indo-Chinese go barefooted the year around for the most part so you know it doesn't get very cold.  However, I have worn my palm beach suit often - as well as my red inner lining for day time wear and on a number of occasions my top coat so it does get a little chilly at times.  A hurricane hit the island a week before we came and played havoc in the valley where I was stationed the first seven months, but there hasn't been a bad storm since we've arrived.

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I've learned ever so much about crafts from the fellows and am crazy about it. Here, as every place else there are lots of swell patients and I really like the work, the island and all. New Caledonia is a French island about 250 miles long and besides French has Australian, Javanese, Tonkanese, Indo-Chinese, Kanahas (island natives) and no doubt others. There are New Zealand army units here too, as well as Fijians and a few other island people from near by who are working for one government or another. The people all dress in native attire and so there is much variety. The natives and the Tonkanese & Indo-Chinese go barefooted the year around for the most part so you know it doesn't get very cold. However, I have worn my palm beach suit often - as well as my red inner lining for day time wear and on a number of occasions my top coat so it does get a little chilly at times. A hurricane hit the island a week before we came and played havoc in the valley where I was stationed the first seven months, but there hasn't been a bad storm since we've arrived.