friday, june 30, 1944
dearest kitty,
bad weather from one at a stretch to the thirty june* [anne''s english.] don''t i say that well? oh yes, i already know a little english; just to prove it i''m reading an ideal husband with the help of a dictionary! war''s going wonderfully: bobruysk, mogilev and orsha have fallen, lots of prisoners.
everything''s all right here. spirits are improving, our superoptimists are triumphant, the van daans are doing disappearing acts with the sugar, bep'' s changed her hair, and miep has a week off. that''s thetest news!
i''ve been having really ghastly root-canal work done on one of my front teeth. it''s been terribly painful. it was so bad dussel thought i was going to faint, and i nearly did. mrs. van d. promptly got a toothache as well!
yours, anne m. frank
p.s. we''ve heard from basel that bernd* [cousin bernhard (buddy) elias]. yed the part of the innkeeper in minna von barnhelm. he has "artistic leanings," says mother.
dearest kitty,
bad weather from one at a stretch to the thirty june* [anne''s english.] don''t i say that well? oh yes, i already know a little english; just to prove it i''m reading an ideal husband with the help of a dictionary! war''s going wonderfully: bobruysk, mogilev and orsha have fallen, lots of prisoners.
everything''s all right here. spirits are improving, our superoptimists are triumphant, the van daans are doing disappearing acts with the sugar, bep'' s changed her hair, and miep has a week off. that''s thetest news!
i''ve been having really ghastly root-canal work done on one of my front teeth. it''s been terribly painful. it was so bad dussel thought i was going to faint, and i nearly did. mrs. van d. promptly got a toothache as well!
yours, anne m. frank
p.s. we''ve heard from basel that bernd* [cousin bernhard (buddy) elias]. yed the part of the innkeeper in minna von barnhelm. he has "artistic leanings," says mother.