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- GLC#
- GLC09120.548
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 November 1944
- Author/Creator
- Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
- Title
- to Estelle Spero
- Place Written
- South Pacific
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 18.5 cm, Width: 26 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Diamond reports that nearly every member of his company has contracted some sort of skin infection from the climate. Sidney writes that he does not really like the new island: "Whereas before we complained of the interminable rain - Here it's always hot and dry - " Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific
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