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31 August 1944
Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008
to Morris "Moe" Weiner
Sylvia visited Ruth, and notes that her husband is going to India.
GLC09414.0369
17 February 1812 or 1813
Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818
to Hannah Cushing
Comforts Hannah Cushing on the death of her nephew, John Cushing Aylwin, who died aboard the U.S.S. Constitution after its battle with the HMS Java in December 1812. Adams quotes from Cato: "How beautiful is death when earned by virtue / Who would...
GLC09394
17 March 1944
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
to Estelle Spero
Diamond wonders "how these Nips can keep getting literally slaughtered." He comments that this is one period that he doesn't want to share with anyone: "I'm spending the rest of my life forgetting it."
GLC09120.375
6 April 1944
Diamond writes that he has heard that Passover is the following day, but that his "holidays are celebrated by destroying the enemy." Sidney describes firing on some "Japs".
GLC09120.386
26 July 1943
Diamond informs Estelle that he is located on a large island in the Southwest Pacific, where the language spoken is French. He tells her that they have been building the base camp, and that there is a large town about 22 miles away.
GLC09120.257
26 October 1943
Diamond writes that he is now "even more impatient to get at the Japs."
GLC09120.288
15 June 1944
Diamond writes that he has been in the "purgatory" of hospital for twenty nine days. He includes a short poem to Estelle, and then playfully describes his fictitious history as a poet.
GLC09120.436
28 June 1944
Diamond writes that his gardening is going well, and that he had gone to see a motion picture that evening.
GLC09120.443
22 September 1944
Diamond comforts Estelle after not having received, or taken, a job offer. He describes a U.S.O. show that he had seen the night before. Sidney then discusses how much he misses Estelle.
GLC09120.508
10 October 1944
Diamond compliments Estelle on her dissertation on melodrama. He mentions that he has received a wedding invitation from "Ben & Beulah" and encloses it with the letter.
GLC09120.520
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