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Helen Fox Angell letters to her mother, December 1945-December 1947

1946-01-05 Helen Fox Angell to Bessie Peebles Fox Page 1

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Langley Field, Hampton Va.
January 5, 1946
Dear Mother,
I've had dinner at the club since I phoned you, had a hot bath & am now comfortably settled in the front room in my bathrobe & pajamas with a glass of ice cold grapefruit juice by my side. I suppose you wonder why the rush order on the cream puff recipe. It can best be explained by saying what I've been doing since I wrote last. By the way, do you see now what a fine thing it is to know where you've filed a recipe card? The last letter I wrote Thursday afternoon. Things weren't very lively & neither was I, as the shots began to make me feel very, very tired. I worked 1 - 6:30 & had supper at the officers club & came home to bed. Yesterday I loafed around till 4, when another girl (Libby) & I went out to the farther club to stay there 4 -10. I couple of our regular customers, a sergeant named Adrian & a corporal named Lee took us to the PX one at a time for supper. We had Bingo 8 - 9 & then played cassino with the fellows, Lee & Adrian helped us close up & then took Libby & me in to Hampton & we had steaks & eclairs. They 
[note in margin] I phoned when we wanted to make cream puffs!

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(over) Langley Field, Hampton Va. January 5, 1946 Dear Mother, I've had dinner at the club since I phoned you, had a hot bath & am now comfortably settled in the front room in my bathrobe & pajamas with a glass of ice cold grapefruit juice by my side. I suppose you wonder why the rush order on the cream puff recipe. It can best be explained by saying what I've been doing since I wrote last. By the way, do you see now what a fine thing it is to know where you've filed a recipe card? The last letter I wrote Thursday afternoon. Things weren't very lively & neither was I, as the shots began to make me feel very, very tired. I worked 1 - 6:30 & had supper at the officers club & came home to bed. Yesterday I loafed around till 4, when another girl (Libby) & I went out to the farther club to stay there 4 -10. I couple of our regular customers, a sergeant named Adrian & a corporal named Lee took us to the PX one at a time for supper. We had Bingo 8 - 9 & then played cassino with the fellows, Lee & Adrian helped us close up & then took Libby & me in to Hampton & we had steaks & eclairs. They [note in margin] I phoned when we wanted to make cream puffs!