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TL: You've mentioned too that Clarence was collecting a lot of information about Niseis and how they saw themselves, and that if he had survived, lived, he might have been able to write a book about that.

YB: Hopefully he had, having been evacuated at the time, and so many things having come up all at once, he was unable to get back into writing a thesis or to work towards his doctorate degree. And this is what he was doing collecting papers. And he had quite a collection, people would write to him all over. Liked, they liked corresponding with him, and he got a lot of information through that. But for some reason he said, "If I should die at any time," he said, "I don't want any of those papers to get out." But later, I was thinking, I could have erased the names and nobody would've known. But I would have to erase all the, deplete all the names in all the letters. But they would talk about their experience. I have papers down there of Chinese Caucasian mixed marriages, and the first Japanese American and Caucasian marriages, and I think I still have some. I don't know if I ever showed them to you, but I do have them, still have them.

TL: So would you say he was interested mainly in adjustment and assimilation?

YB: Yes, adjustment and assimilation. And that it had started out very nicely, that if it can continue in that manner, he felt that it would be a good thing. And people who had this experience, originally, maybe the first, would write to Clarence about their experiences.

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