Image / Letter from Fumiko Matsumura to Remsen Bird, April 4, 1942

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Title: Letter from Fumiko Matsumura to Remsen Bird, April 4, 1942
Creator: Matsumura, Fumiko
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-04-04
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 of her arrival at Manzanar Reception Center, describing the beauty of surrounding mountains but also the lack of modern conveniences such as adequate water supply. [see Bird's reply Dbase #026] [Letter is transcribed. Click on 'page & text' to view.]
Type: image
Format: Letter ; handwritten
image/text
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7w1038gb
025_kt638nc9ww
scjar01ea025_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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