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Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 to Estelle Spero

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09120.533 Author/Creator: Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945 Place Written: South Pacific Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 November 1944 Pagination: 6 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 28 cm Order a Copy

Diamond describes his day of departure, which is still "so clear" in his mind, despite the seventeen months that have passed: "There was a peculiar sensation that all this wasn't new - that our ancestors somewhere had experienced the same tightening around the stomach." He then writes about "Johnny Martin", a "nice kid" who had been killed. Sidney ends by apologizing for "this morbid nonsense", explaining that "sometimes the loneliness overwhelms" him. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

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