| dc.creator | Lillian, Virginia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-22T19:38:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-22T19:38:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1942-10-28 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66444 | |
| dc.description | Letter from Virginia Lillian, sister to Smith Green, to her grandparents, William and Mary Green, about Green's status as a prisoner of war. | |
| dc.format.medium | 5.25x7 paper | |
| dc.relation | Smith Lowry Green Collection (MS 179) | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph | |
| dc.source | Box 002, Correspondence as regarding P.O.W. capture 1942; 1945 (not from Smith) folder, Item 004 | |
| dc.subject | Green, Smith L. | |
| dc.subject | World War II | |
| dc.subject | United States Army | |
| dc.subject | Prisoners of war | |
| dc.title | Letter from Virginia Lillian to grandma and grandpa | |
| dc.type | Document | |
| dc.description.transcription | 45 Jersey St. San Francisco, Calif. October 28, 1942 Dear Grandma and Grandpa - I am enclosing a letter I received from the War Dept. a couple of months ago. As you can see it was dated May 20, 1942 but the address was wrong and I didn't get it for several months after it was written. The Red Cross finally forwarded it to me. I should have mailed it on to you at once but I let the family out here read it and somehow it was lost. Then too, I rather hated to send it along because I knew you worried enough as it was. It does give us some hope as to Smith's welfare but not much. I haven't heard further from the War Dept. so I can't say whether his name was listed among the prisoners or not. I don't think the Japanese have given out a full list yet. Have you heard anything? I've been waiting rather anxiously for another letter but so far there hasn't been a word. But until I hear anything more definite I'm certainly going to cling to the hope that he is all right somewhere. Please don't worry too much about him, although I know how much he meant to you. I'm sure that he will somehow get word to us all in the neat future. We'll all keep praying and hoping anyway. I hope you are both well and getting along all right. Everyone out here is fine now - outside of colds. We had quite a time with the baby. She has been sick quite often in the last few months but seems all right now. Bobby is growing like a weed and is very very mischievous - a typical boy. Doris expects her baby in about a week and my third one is due around new years. Dave joined the Navy last week but I don't know where he is yet. When he writes I will send you his address and you might like to write to him too. He was 20 a few weeks ago and expected to be drafted so he enlisted. Claude is working in the shipyards building those liberty ships - so he is doing this part too. Well - I must close for now. Write soon Love, Virginia Mrs. C. Lillian 45 Jersey St St. San Francisco, Calif. Mr. & Mrs. W. Green Box 426 Broken Bow Oklahoma | |
