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 the latest 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]. played the part of the innkeeper in minna von barnhelm. he has "artistic leanings," says mother.