Abstract This collection contains the correspondence of Veramay Spencer and her U.S. Army boyfriend Kenneth Wright beginning in the year of 1953 and ending in 1955. It also includes letters from his mother Mrs. Carl C. Wright and friends that he met while serving for the Army. Several letters from his girlfriend Veramay Spencer contain newspaper clippings of happenings back home such as beauty pageants and daily current events. Many of the final letters are Christmas cards from friends to Wright upon...

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Veramay started her letter by telling Wright that she agreed that one of the guys got very lucky with his promotion but that Wright had better experiences that he could not trade in for a couple of stripes. She told him she was glad that he got to speak with some of the prisoners from Riverside. She continued to write about everyone back home and her sewing class.

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Veramay started her letter by telling Wright that she had been cleaning the new trailer that her family bought. She asked Wright about his friend who was getting married. She ended the letter early because nothing eventful had occurred but she told Wright that she could not wait for him to get sent back home.

Scope and Contents Veramay started her letter by telling Wright how much she loved him. She told him that every time she received a letter from him she felt great, especially after not hearing from him in eight days. She informed Wright of the projects that she was working on with her sewing and the trailer. Veramay wrote to Wright that she did not care if he wrote to other girls at Riverside but that she was afraid of what that might lead to upon his return. She told him that they had a meeting at work and...

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Veramay started off her letter by apologizing to Wright for getting behind on writing, she explained that she had been very busy. She updated him with news of everyone back home. She told him that she hoped he could spend his R & R (rest and recuperation) wherever he wanted but that he should be careful in case the war were to break out again. She informed Wright that she could not send him her new photographs because they were so horrible she would have to retake them.

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Veramay started her letter by apologizing to Wright for not writing in so long, she informed him that she had been busy every day. She answered some of Wright’s questions from his previous letters. She told him that she did not win the Cotton Ball and that she believed the judges were not honest.Veramay continued to ask Wright what he wanted for Christmas.

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Veramay started her letter by updatting Wright of the latest news on everyone back home. She told Wright she did not have a creation to share for the sewing class fashion show. She wrote that she didn’t have anything exciting to write about and continued to answer his questions from previous letters.She ended the letter by asking Wright to tell her about his trips to Seoul.

Scope and Contents Veramay started off her letter by telling Wright that she did not have anything interesting to write about because there was not much activity in Indio. She told him that she was sorry that he had lost money on the Dodgers and told him he should learn a lesson from his bad gambling experience. She congratulated him for winning the “ Reg’t Champ”. She told Wright that her father mentioned that although he would have liked a harmonica, he preferred a German instrument called a honer. She...

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Veramay started her letter by apologizing to Wright for not writing often. She told him she sent him photographs of her and she gave him a brief explanation of each one. She told Wright that she was flattered that he wanted to enter her photograph to a contest, but assured him that he would get lost among the photographs that the other men sent in.Veramay ended the letter by telling Wright how much she loved him.

Scope and Contents Veramay started the letter to Wright by asking him if he still remembered her. She told him that some of her mother’s relations sold their house in Oregon with the hope that they would move to Indio. However, they only lasted one day because they could not stand all of the Mexicans. She updated him with the latest news on everyone back home. She told him that his parents had stopped by to pick up the box he sent her. She apologized for her bad photographs but reassured him she would send him...