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Brantley, Claude E., 1915-1984 to Dorothy Brantley

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09610.144 Author/Creator: Brantley, Claude E., 1915-1984 Place Written: Natal, Brazil Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 30 December Pagination: 2 p. : envelope ; Order a Copy

One letter from Claude E. Brantley to Dorothy Brantley dated December 30 there is no year on the letter. Mentions sending the letter home through another serviceman who is returning to the states so that it will skip the censor. He writes Dorothy of all the stops along his journey so far, to Brazil and the future stops in the Ascension Islands, Africa, and then Calcutta, India which is as much as he knows.

Brantley, Claude E., 1915-1984
Brantley, Dorothy, 1920-1987

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