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17 January 1943
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
to Estelle Spero
Diamond describes watching a group of cavalry officers warming up for a fox-hunt. He also discusses his Spanish class.
GLC09120.177
June 1943
Diamond describes the "hot, sweltering horror" of the climate in the Tropics". He outlines the books that he has read on the voyage, giving Estelle short reviews of each. Written at sea
GLC09120.253
12 December 1942
Letter in which Diamond portrays himself as a "Don Quixote".
GLC09120.149
28 July 1944
Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008
to Morris "Moe" Weiner
Sylvia discusses the books they are reading, and a conversation she had with Olga about Marty.
GLC09414.0337
1 September 1944
This letter features a sketch of Sylvia sitting with a book in her lap.
GLC09414.0370
13 February 1944
Diamond asks Estelle to send him a book once a month to entertain him.
GLC09120.351
9 March 1944
Diamond thanks Estelle for the New Yorker that she had subscribed to for him, and then proceeds to "rampage through the 'mag'
GLC09120.372
11 April 1944
Diamond writes on his birthday that he feels "one hundred years older." He recommends that she reads "The Robe" by Lloyd C. Douglas.
GLC09120.389
24 April 1944
Diamond reports that the rainy season has begun once more. He writes that he has finished reading Voltaire's "Candide".
GLC09120.400
26 April 1944
Diamond discusses the trials of being so far from one's sweetheart. He recounts the story of his former sergeant, who had been engaged, but whose ex-fiancee is now using the bedroom set that he had purchased with her new husband. He mentions that...
GLC09120.403
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