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Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 to Estelle Spero

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09120.113 Author/Creator: Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: September 1942 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 26.7 cm Order a Copy

Letter written while in a program and instruction class. Diamond gives Estelle a definition of the terms lecture, military training, policies, sanitation, scouting and patrolling and field fortifications. He also informs her that he has received one demerit for failing to remove an extra hanger hanging on his clothes rack.

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