Correspondence of Evelyn V. Hansen Dibble, 1941-1945.

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Correspondence of Evelyn V. Hansen Dibble, 1941-1945.

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Eveyn V. Dibblle's letters to her parents, sister, and other relatives from Berkley and the military camps in North Carolina. The letters describe a student's life at Berkley, including accounts of entertainment organized for the soldiers wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor and conversations with them, military training and service of a woman Marine.

190 pieces, also photographs and ephemera.3 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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