Mina Curtiss collection, 1910-1945 (inclusive).

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Mina Curtiss collection, 1910-1945 (inclusive).

Series I, Military Letters, consists of original and typed copies of letters sent home by American servicemen from various training camps in the United States and from overseas campaigns during World War II, many of which Mina Curtiss used for her 1944 book, Letters Home. Also included are Henry T. Curtiss papers and photographs. There are a diary and book relating to Curtiss's 1910 trip to Europe on the S.S. Arabic, which included stops in the British Isles, Holland, Germany, Venice, Scutari and Dalmatia; a volume of letters and photographs sent by members of the Scroll and Key Society to one another from 1920-1923, with reminiscences about Curtiss after his death in 1928; and eight large photographs of Curtiss alone and with friends, ca. 1910.

1.5 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8023049

Yale University Library

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Platt, Joseph Curtis, 1887-1950.

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