P. Gerald Kruger letters : to Erika Wackenroder Kruger, Germany : ALS, 1939-1940.

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P. Gerald Kruger letters : to Erika Wackenroder Kruger, Germany : ALS, 1939-1940.

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Contains correspondence written by Kruger to his wife, while he was traveling to Calif. from Illinois and working at Lawrence Labs in Berkeley, and his wife was visiting family in Berlin, Germany. Describes his work on the cyclotron, his colleges including Lawrence, and G. Kenneth Green, his worries of the war starting in Europe and trying to get his wife out, the cost of living in different locations in the U.S., description of college campuses including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin--Madison, University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley, description of Yellowstone Park, the Grand Tetons and Yosemite and the changing of the date of Thanksgiving by President Roosevelt. Also includes a copy of letter from his wife, in German, about how he can get money to her in order for her to return to the U.S., a biography of P.G. Kruger, and articles by Kruger.

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