Image / Letter from Fumiko Matsumura to Remsen Bird, June 2, 1942

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Title: Letter from Fumiko Matsumura to Remsen Bird, June 2, 1942
Creator: Matsumura, Fumiko
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-06-02
2005-05-18
Publication Information: Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Contributing Institution: Occidental College Library
Collection: Japanese American Relocation Collection
Rights Information: Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Description: In this two-page handwritten letter, Matsumura writes to Bird regarding the "rapid progress" at Manzanar, noting that all houses have been built and that a hospital is under construction. Matsumura also mentions her plan to start a ballet class and her wish to complete high school once a school is built. [Letter is transcribed. Click on 'page & text' to view.]
Type: image
Format: Letter ; handwritten
image/jpeg
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt309nf26g
027_kt638nc9ww
scjar01ea027_pg1-pg2
Language: English
Subject: Concentration Camps--United States
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Manzanar Relocation Center (Manzanar, Calif.)
Source: Occidental College Library

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