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doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-17)

Excerpt: "Monday night we learned at choir that instead of a rehearsal Thursday we were getting a farewell concert for the project." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-17/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-18)

Excerpt: "Last week I had some rest from choir after Mae's leaving -- we took a week off because of the big banquets for the volunteers." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-18/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-80)

Excerpt: "We have been deluged with clerical help in the office and there have been 25 prisoners of war loading freight since Tuesday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-80/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-57)

Excerpt: "This week has been like winter and today has been raining so we snuggled indoors and have played Chinese checkers all afternoon." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-57/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-71)

Excerpt: "This past week I've been doing things between sneezes. My hay fever (sheep grass?) has hit me harder this year than before." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-71/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-63)

Excerpt: "If I thought I was busy at any time during the last two years, it was a mild form of self-indulgence!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-63/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-79)

Excerpt: "There is really very little news this week. The first part was very hot and yesterday and today have been unseasonably cool." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-79/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-34)

Excerpt: "It's late, but I drank quite a bit of coffee at a party here in the dorm tonight and I'm not sleepy." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-34/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-53)

Excerpt: "Monday before last I was invited to Father Joe's for a farewell dinner for Miss Hiota. It was all Japanese food with chopsticks." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-53/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-72)

Excerpt: "Not much has happened since I last wrote, but the weekend is booked full and I'm not sure when I'll get another chance." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-72/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-9)

Excerpt: "Our weather last night was something to write home about. Yesterday was overcast, warm and calm. At midnight it was cleary and starry." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-9/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-40)

Excerpt: "Tonight I'm sitting in the shadow of my social life dashing this off while I wait for the Chinese checker game to begin." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-40/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-38)

Excerpt: "Our enrollment is sky rocketing beyond our wildest estimate and yet we must be prepared to have many relocate or graduate in February." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-38/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-56)

Excerpt: "We got off at 11 Friday morning, rode to Burley with Mr. Heley on an errand and took the last seats in the bus from there." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-56/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-77)

Excerpt: "This is one of the most leisurely Sundays in a long time. To begin with, I was supposed to have gone to Boise and didn't." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-77/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-64)

Excerpt: "Evelyn Rose of the Washington statistics office -- she spent two weeks here last June and lived in the dorms -- was here again week before last." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-64/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-66)

Excerpt: "Mr. Harke finally got around to breaking the log jam and also seemed to realize that he was working at cross purposes to my job." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-66/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-50)

Excerpt: "Since then it has been a series of slow days that would have been leisurely if they hadn't been haunted by uncertainty and insidious developments." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-50/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-44)

Excerpt: "We started our testing program Monday -- a little sooner than I would have liked, but the pressure was on so I 'broke my neck' over it." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-44/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-24)

Excerpt: "Monday noon one of my favorite seniors came in with word he had to go home to bed and would probably have a hernia operation Thursday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-24/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her aunt (ddr-densho-171-43)

Excerpt: "As with you, all the news is in the 'Family letter' but I do want you to have a thank-you of your own for my birthday check." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-43/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-1)

Excerpt: "I'm here! Just a line because I have to be up at 7 tomorrow. Things are much better than I expected and they have a grand bunch here." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-1/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-81)

Excerpt: "I think I wrote to you on the weekend that Joe was away. Elmer took Evelyn and me to dinner in Jerome and supper in Eden that day." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-81/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-12)

Excerpt: "I'm very sorry you worried about my silence. If I could I'd have somebody write for me or else I'd be sure to have leisure to write myself." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-12/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-2)

Excerpt: "I'm not sure when I wrote last, was it on the train? As you probably noticed I took the Pacific limited to be sure of connections at Wells." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-2/

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