Box 43

Scope and Contents Approximately 45 letters, telegrams, and official documents that chronicle the experience of Fumiko Yonemoto (née Hitomi) and her family while incarcerated in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center between 1942 and 1945, as seen through communication with her former teacher and advocate George C. Kimber, a professor of Geography at Sacramento Junior College. The materials fall largely into two categories: first, letters from Fumiko and her brother Takeshi detailing their lives in the camp and...

Scope and Contents Approximately 40 letters and cards from the papers of writer and collector Robert Young Jr., in two group: first, letters sent from former child star Elsie Leslie and her husband Edwin Millikin (1957-166), mostly casual correspondence but with some reminiscences of her time on the stage, plus a photo c. 1911 and an advance obituary apparently written by Leslie herself in 1959. The second and slightly larger group consists of letters from noted American biographer W.A. Swanberg between 1976...

Scope and Contents Ten pieces of correspondence written by Japanese-American poet, memoirist, and librarian Toyo Suyemoto to her school friend Josephine “Josie” Gordon between 1936 and the early 1950s. The bulk of the letters are from the early days of Japanese Internment, when Suyemoto, her parents, and her infant son Kay were forcibly removed first to Tanforan in San Bruno, California, and then to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. The pre-War letters have a breezy tone as the friends...