Letters: Hazel to Parents (12 of 13), June 3, 1945-August 24, 1945

Containers:

10.0050 - Box 1, Folder 013

Scope and content:

This folder contains letters to Bowman's parents from June 3, 1945-August 24, 1945. Letters cover her time working for the Red Cross in Calcutta, her observations and experiences in India, news from home, and interactions and letters with friends. She also included several additions of Saf Salaam, which announced Red Cross events to be published in The News of the ARC in China, India and Burma. In her June 18, 1945, letter, there is a newspaper clipping her parents initially sent her about elephants not wanting to work, in which a Colonel Morris Suhre, who she says was her friend in Assam, is quoted. In her letter from June 20, 1945, there is a clipping of two soldiers that created a boat out of an airplane gas tank. On July 1, 1945, she included newspaper clippings from The Statesman; one covered the allocation of cloth for funeral shrouds and mourners, allocated by religion, and a clipping with advertisements, birth and marriage announcements, and the beginning of an article on the United Nations Conference. She also included newspaper clippings concerning the integration of the Navy, prisoner evacuations from Japan, and Japan's surrender, including several pages of the The Statesman (published in Calcutta and Delhi) following the surrender. She also sent home a pamphlet with history and images of the Bandel Church in Bengal.

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