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Circa. May 1942
Diamond, Sidney (1922-1945)
to Estelle Spero
Describes how difficult Sundays are for him since he has no distractions to prevent him thinking of home and people on the outside world.
GLC09120.025
4 June 1942
Discusses Estelle's faithfulness to Sid. Describes a ten-mile hike that the company had gone on, and also a lecture on means of protection against chemical warfare.
GLC09120.026
Incomplete letter. Explains that multiple use of punctuation marks is due to his "engaged to be engaged" status. Wishes Estelle luck in her upcoming exams. Starts to describe his dream date.
GLC09120.027
circa. early summer 1942
Informs Estelle that it will be impossible to know whether he will receive officer training until the three months of initial training have been completed, but warns her that it will be very competitive due to the high caliber of men assigned to the...
GLC09120.028
9 June 1942
Discusses the chore of guarding the guardhouse, and the lack of US military success in the war so far.
GLC09120.029
Informs Estelle that has spent the day on the firing range. Criticizes a friend, Zebe, for expressing approval of the war while in practice failing to enlist. In turn, Sidney expresses his respect for another friend, Lew Agnes, for his willingness...
GLC09120.030
Circa June 1942
Asks for Estelle's forgiveness, although unaware as to why she is upset.
GLC09120.031
June 1942
Describes the different gases that he's been working with..
GLC09120.032
13 June 1942
Informs Estelle that he has become qualified in the use of pistols, the test for which only 33% of candidates pass. Wishes Estelle a happy 18th birthday, stating that he regrets nothing from the four years which they have spent together.
GLC09120.033
12 June 1942
Explains that Estelle's birthday present may be somewhat modest due to lack of funds and a shortage of gifts that can be purchased on the army base. Describes a training film and lecture that he had received regarding the ways in which international...
GLC09120.034
Describes a seven mile hike that his platoon had completed before supper. Discusses the process of "blood typing" that the army carries out, stamping each soldier's blood type onto his identification tag, enabling hasty blood transfusions should the...
GLC09120.035
Writes that he has enclosed ten very hard-earned dollars with the letter. Describes the ways in which he intends to save money. Outlines the day's schedule - a session on how to administer First Aid to gas attack victims, a lecture and film on map...
GLC09120.036
17 June 1942
Informs Estelle that he is about to go on guard duty which lasts for a full 24 hours. Also discusses a class that he has just had on the use of portable chemical cylinders.
GLC09120.037
Allays Estelle's fears regarding the use of mustard and lewisite gases in the war effort. Letter written while Sidney is on guard duty, and he mentions that an important feature of this job is keeping the white soldiers out of the "Negro" section....
GLC09120.038
Discusses the use of mustard and lewisite gas in the war. Promises Estelle that he will return, and upon his return will take her as his wife.
GLC09120.039
Letter written while Diamond is on guard duty. Discusses differences between the treatment of black and white soldiers. Diamond mentions that he is being trained as a communications and staff man, and what this role will entail. He also outlines...
GLC09120.040
Diamond informs Estelle that the training camp that he is in is the only Chemical Warfare training center in the country
GLC09120.041
Responds to a series of comments that Estelle had raised in a previous letter. Speaks about a "friend" of Sidney's who has attempted to date Estelle. Also discusses another friend who did not enlist and managed to acquire $2000 somehow. Instructs...
GLC09120.042
Apologizes for brevity of letter, explaining that he has spent the evening with Joe, Percy Hamburger and Julie Zimmerman reminiscing old times.
GLC09120.043
Writes of the implications of having been charged to a chemical weapons company; instead of being shipped as a unit, they will all be assigned to different parts of the service - infantry, field artillery etc. Mentions some of the rules that he has...
GLC09120.044
Writes that he is suffering from the "empty week-end blues". Sidney puts this down to a visit from his parents, which was accompanied by constant references to home and Estelle.
GLC09120.045
Describes the experience of being subjected to a dose of chloracetophenone (tear gas) in order to demonstrate to the soldiers the value of the gas mask. Outlines the rest of the day's schedule - a class in military customs and the History of...
GLC09120.046
Expresses concern that Estelle is losing weight, and reassures her that he has attempted to stay away from anything dangerous and that he has every intention of returning. Registers surprise at the fact that his Southern compatriots had never tasted...
GLC09120.047
Runs through the day's rather hectic schedule, apologizing for the brevity of the letter.
GLC09120.048
23 June 1942.
Describes a simulated "moving up" maneuver that the company had carried out early in the morning. Sid then goes on to detail the rest of the day's events which included a lecture on meteorology, a session on map-reading and map-making and a session...
GLC09120.049
circa early summer 1942.
Brief letter written while waiting for the company to be inspected by the captain. Mentions that he is now a qualified rifleman and pistolman.
GLC09120.050
26 June 1942
Apologizes for irregularity with which he has been writing letters recently, explaining that he has had very little sleep lately. Sid then describes an overnight excursion that his company had been taken on
GLC09120.051
27 June 1942
Describes an argument that he has had with Carter, a soldier from Tennessee, on the "negro question".
photocopy
GLC09120.052
28 June 1942
Letter written while on guard duty. Discusses the possibility of obtaining a night pass. Attempts to convince Stella that she is "political" with regard to the "negro question".
GLC09120.053
29 June 1942
Diamond informs Estelle that his is the only group left at the barracks, other than a group of African-American troops left to clear up vacated barracks. Mentions that he has become known as "nigger lover Diamond" by the Southern soldiers, and...
GLC09120.054
30 June 1942
Letter written while on guard duty. Diamond describes a formal dance to mark the opening of the camp's new recreation hall that he had attended the night before. He also runs through the couple's financial situation, having been paid that morning....
GLC09120.055
08 February 1943
Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964)
to Lewis L. Strauss
Hoover asks for help in raising money for the "Boys' Clubs of America" (now the Boys & Girls Clubs of America) by asking corporations for donations. He lists several corporations that gave donations of $500 the previous year, including: American...
GLC07366.02
01 November 1943
Addressed to "my dear Lewis". Hoover expresses appreciation to Strauss for securing a radio audience for his Kansas City speech [October 28, 1943]. He hopes that Strauss feels it was worth his time and effort and that the speech clarified "this...
GLC07366.04
circa October 1945
Goldberg, Mildred (b. 1923)
Personal recollections of Mildred Goldberg, secretary to the theoretical group, SAM Laboratories, The Manhattan Project; 1943-1946
Goldberg, a secretary working in the Substitute or Special Alloy Metals (S.A.M.) Laboratory at Columbia University, recalls the people and events that were part of her work experience. Mentions various scientists and other colleagues at the...
GLC03152.01
circa August 1945
Kaplan, Irving (1912-1997)
Preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists
Typed by Mildred Goldberg, who was working as a secretary for the Substitute or Special Alloy Metals (S.A.M.) Laboratory at Columbia University. Goldberg notes that this manuscript was created "two or three days" after the atomic bomb was dropped on...
GLC03152.02
[Draft of the preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists]
Handwritten draft of GLC03152.02. Contains several inserted typed paragraphs. The remainder of the declaration is written in pencil.
GLC03152.03
Preliminary statement on legislation referring to the future development of atomic energy
Apparently issued by the Association of Manhattan District Scientists in conjunction with GLC03152.03. The Association states, "It has been established beyond doubt that the atomic bomb, because of its tremendous destructive power and the...
GLC03152.04
1 November 1945
Bonner, Francis T. (fl. 1945)
[Newsletter for the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]
Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. He writes as Secretary of the Executive Committee. Introductory note on first page indicates that the association...
GLC03152.05
circa 1 November 1945
[Bonner's notes related to a recent meeting of the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]
Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. At the time this note was written, Bonner was Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Association of Manhattan...
GLC03152.06
31 January 1945
Dunning, John R. (John Ray) (1907-)
[To staff members of Columbia University, S.A.M. Laboratories, Division 1]
Dunning, a physicist working on the Manhattan Project, tenders his resignation as Director of Division I (at the Nash building, where Columbia University's Substitute or Special Alloy Metals Laboratory was located). Writes, "The work to which we are...
GLC03152.07
circa 1945
Unknown
[Photograph of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project]
Depicts Drs. Irving Kaplan, Francis Bonner, Ernest O. Lawrence, and [Robert] Harrison together looking at an open volume on the table before them.
GLC03152.09
8 December 1941
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989
Declaration of War against the United States and Britain [in Japanese]
Imperial rescript of the Declaration of War declared on the United States and Great Britain on the Japanese date 16th year of Showa, 12th month. " ... we, the emperor, have now declared war upon the United States of America and Great Britain. The...
GLC01415
27 January 1940
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
to Sanford Bates
Written as chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund on stationary to Bates as the Executive Director of the Boys Clubs of America. Thanks him for joining in the support of the Finnish Relief Fund, which was set up by Hoover to assist Finland during the...
GLC01809
1940
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Arms and the Covenant: speeches on Foreign Affairs and National Defense by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill
Inscribed by Winston Churchill on the free front endpaper to Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's special envoy, and dated March 1940. First edition compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
GLC01750.01
15 February 1944
Baruch, Bernard M., 1870-1965
Report on war and post-war adjustment policies
Co-authored with John M. Hancock. Report on how best to demobilize soldiers and civilians after World War II, and return them to work. Also discusses how to return the government's workforce to peacetime leadership. Commissioned by James F. Byrnes...
GLC01592.01
1945/02/18
to Mrs. Mary L. Simon
Letter regarding "human demobilization." Typed on personal stationery.
GLC01592.02
15 November 1945
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Statement by the President
Signed and corrected by Truman. Honors the tenth anniversary of the Philippine commonwealth. Praises the Filipino people and notes the ordeals they experienced during World War II and the Japanese occupation. Remarks that they "are spiritually...
GLC01683
Tojo, Hideki, 1884-1948
[10 Yen note]
Signed in Kanji (Japanese) and Roman.
GLC01684.01
1942
U.S. Government Printing Office
We can't all go... but we can all help!
One poster entitled, "We can't all go... but we can all help!" printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office, dated 1942. Poster features a soldier hugging a crying toddler with his left arm. In his right hand he is holding a gun. The text on the...
GLC09654.01
I Gave A Man!
One poster entitled, "I Gave A Man!" printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office, dated 1942. Poster features a mother looking out, holding a smiling baby, and being hugged by a little girl. The caption on the poster reads, "Will you give at least...
GLC09654.02
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