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This artifact is Shawna Trainer's letter from Sarah Mayper, where Mayper expresses her excitement about Trainer's MIT recruitment.

This letter is a part of the Gilson Collection at Florida State’s Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. John, a reserve officer in the Navy, writes to his wife Betty. The letter describes John's frustrations as the war has ended but is…

This letter is part of the “Anne and Wayne Coloney Collection” at the Florida State Institute on Word War II and the Human Experience. It is from Wayne Coloney, a tank officer stationed in Europe, to his father. The letter is written on browning…

This letter is from Florida State’s Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, as part of the Sidney Rochelson Collection. Rochelson is writing to his parents about his unusually luxurious stay in Luxembourg at the time. He was some sort…

This artifact is a greeting card and letter written by Glenda Berkey to her husband Richard. The card, and the letter tucked inside, written while Glenda was visiting family for a week in West Virginia in August 1988. The card sends her love,…

This artifact is a personal letter written by Glenda Berkey. In the letter, Glenda discusses feeling difference and struggling to fit in at home and in school. The letter ends with a poem about the loss of someone important to her. The letter was…

Ron and Lucretia Maier's 1961 letter to Lucretia's sister, June Nickelson. It begins by discussing the purchase of a painting for Christmas and is typed on an artist's business stationary (the artist is the two sisters' father, Henry LaForet). The…