BIB_ID
373183
Accession number
MA 5142.83
Creator
Price, Robert Glenn, 1918-
Display Date
1945 June 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope is addressed to "S.Sgt Albert Sperisen, 39844444 / 30th Photo Recon Sq. / APO 595 / c/o PM San Francisco, Calif."
Envelope with postmark; date is from postmark.
Price's return address is "S. Sgt Bob Price, 19083858 BRIEF magazine / G-2 PRO Tenth Army / APO 357 / c/o San Francisco, Calif."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Envelope with postmark; date is from postmark.
Price's return address is "S. Sgt Bob Price, 19083858 BRIEF magazine / G-2 PRO Tenth Army / APO 357 / c/o San Francisco, Calif."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Telling him that he is in Hawaii "in what is known as active quarantine," living in a tent he calls "Buckingham Palace"; complaining that he thinks the mosquito netting over his bed is going to collapse; noting that he has not had a drink since "the memorable April seventh when [he] was shipped off to the induction center at Monterey"; asking him to send him the first volume of [Henry] Miller's Hamlet; observing that "books become terribly precious."
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