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Letters received
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Letters received
Manuscripts
Letters dated 1939 and 1941 to 1946 were originally stored together in a file box; the bulk of these were sent to Sumi and sometimes multiple Sakai family members while incarcerated at Manzanar and are primarily from personal and family friends. Some were sent from other camps including Poston, Gila River, and Tule Lake, or from elsewhere in the U.S. following the sender's release, describing their current lives, schooling, and work, in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, and elsewhere. These correspondents performed secretarial work, domestic labor, and farm labor; some were involved in resettlement efforts by the Advisory Committee for Evacuees in Chicago and the American Friends Service Committee; or served in the U.S. Army. There are several letters from friend Sunao Imoto, who was released from Poston to work for poet Carl Sandburg and his wife, Lilian Sandburg. Also present in this group are letters from friends and neighbors in Los Angeles, including Galetta Van Valkenburgh, and a request from Yuki Sakai to a Father Lavery for assistance in transferring her parents from the Santa Anita Sanitarium near the Santa Anita Assembly Center, dated 1942 June 17. Letters were possibly originally filed by sender and there are several index cards with correspondents' names and addresses present. Some letters from 1940 and 1941 were sent to Sumi Sakai while she was traveling in Japan. Post-war correspondence is from family and friends in the U.S. and Japan and includes greeting cards and holiday snapshot cards, especially from the Kawakami family; some letters and cards are addressed to multiple family members.
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Letters received
Manuscripts
Bulk is holiday snapshot cards from the Kawakami family.
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Letters received
Manuscripts
Bulk is notes and thank you notes, some including Tokio Florist invoices, from customers remitting payments. Most envelopes have check marks, invoice numbers, or notes written on them; many are empty but have markings or notes on them.
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Early family
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Snapshots of the Sakai family, bulk most likely in the San Diego area in the 1920s, including images of Masao Sakai, Sumi and other Sakai children, beach excursions, polo matches, a car race, and other activities. There are several small loose snapshots in an envelope of Japan that appear to be from a later date.
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Taft, Stephen H. Rev. Letter to Alexander Turney Stewart, 1803-1876
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New York, N.Y. With envelope. Letter written on Humboldt College leaflet. Also: one piece of ephemera and facsimile of letter from Thomas Picton to "Dear Sir," 1866, Jan. 31.
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Approx. 130 items: letters, clips and reports to and from William F. Thomas. Includes letters from Thomas to readers about the fact that LAT sponsored no "pen pal" club, did not publish reader poetry, etc.
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