Guide to the Violet Wise Letters MSS.2038
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by April Burnette
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
2008
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@bama.ua.edu
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- Language Usage:
English
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Violet Wise Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.2038
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet 2 letters, 2 envelopes
- Dates:
1945
- Abstract:
This collection consists of two letters to Violet Wise, Overpeck, Ohio. One letter is from Gunnery Sergeant James E. Ramsey, Quantico, Virginia, January 25, 1945. The other letter is from Sergeant Major T. King, France, March 25, 1945.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of two letters to Violet Wise, Overpeck, Ohio. One letter is from Gunnery Sergeant James E. Ramsey, Quantico, Virginia, January 25, 1945. He writes about her “great loss” and being at Quantico. This letter is written on United States Marines stationery. The other letter is from Sergeant Major T. King, France, March 25, 1945. He writes that he is “Somewhere in France” and mutual friends.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
April Burnett, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
The Violet Wise Letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2007
Biographical/Historical note
Gunnery Sergeant James E. Ramsey, United States Marine Corp., was in Battery C at the Marine Corp Schools at Quantico, Virginia. Sergeant Major T. King was in Company M, 4th Platoon.