ddr-csujad-5-179 — Letter from Ayame Okine to Mr. S. Okine, December 28, 1945 [in Japanese]

Letter from Ayame Okine to Mr. S. Okine, December 28, 1945 [in Japanese]

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ddr-csujad-5-179 (CSUJAD Local ID: oki_02_24_001, CSUJAD Project ID: csudh_oki_0174)

CSU Dominguez Hills Okine Collection

A letter from Ayame Okine to her parents-in-law, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. In the letter, Ayame writes about her sister-in-law, Hatsuno Hotty Okine who works at a Caucasian family's place and is getting married to Masuo Robert Befu soon. She also updates on her life in Illinois, working for 12 hours with fifteen to sixteen people and making mochi for the holiday season. The handwritten notes on the backside of the envelope record the arrival date and place of the letter, January 2, 1946 to Hawthorne, and the replied date, January 2[?], 1946. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_24_001

12/28/1945

Bartlett, Illinois

Correspondence

Document

Okine, Ayame May (author)

CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections

[Title of item], Okine Collection, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. University Library. California State University, Dominguez Hills