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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, July 1944-April 1945

1944-10-07 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 2

the shore of Loch Lomond. I had lots of fun visiting with them. When they got out at Carlisle, a most amusing British captain sat with me. He had been in Libya, Egypt and Syria for three years and had been home in Scotland visiting his parents. He was on his way to visit his sister and her new baby near London. He had a sack of tomatos his mother's gardener had raised with pride, so we ate tomatos till they dripped down our chins. He had bought a huge, wooly sheepskin coat from a Syrian and had that. It gave him a most bizarre look and he kept assuring me it didn't crawl because his mother had fumigated it before she'd let it in the house. He was tall -- over six feet and had a most dashing moustach and hazel eyes that twinkled most of the time. We had a time getting off the train in London, as he had four big suitcases and a box of flowers. I carried the flowers for him, as they seemed to be worrying him. I was sorry he wasn't staying over, as I'd liked to have seen him again, but he put me in a taxi and off I went.

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the shore of Loch Lomond. I had lots of fun visiting with them. When they got out at Carlisle, a most amusing British captain sat with me. He had been in Libya, Egypt and Syria for three years and had been home in Scotland visiting his parents. He was on his way to visit his sister and her new baby near London. He had a sack of tomatos his mother's gardener had raised with pride, so we ate tomatos till they dripped down our chins. He had bought a huge, wooly sheepskin coat from a Syrian and had that. It gave him a most bizarre look and he kept assuring me it didn't crawl because his mother had fumigated it before she'd let it in the house. He was tall -- over six feet and had a most dashing moustach and hazel eyes that twinkled most of the time. We had a time getting off the train in London, as he had four big suitcases and a box of flowers. I carried the flowers for him, as they seemed to be worrying him. I was sorry he wasn't staying over, as I'd liked to have seen him again, but he put me in a taxi and off I went.