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Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016 to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09611.408 Author/Creator: Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016 Place Written: Hawaii Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 2 March 1945 Pagination: 3 p. : envelope Order a Copy

One letter from Leonard Eugene Graeff to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff dated March 2, 1945. He mentioned receiving letters from them Lorraine Fencil, Marguerite Graeff, Florence Huber, Robert Winemiller and Dick Miller. Dick, Robert Winemiller, and Wayne Stouffer are all in the same sector around Luxembourg. Dick is trying to visit them but having no luck. Dick also mentions an engagement to his girlfriend of two years from England. He has been trying to get back to England to get married. Leonard thanks Susan and Raymond for the newspaper clippings and photographs of snow. Inquires if Melinda Graeff sent out a Christmas card. He mentions Mike Riccuit and Bretz and his worry for them serving in Iwo Jima. He writes "They both knew pretty sure where they were going and just what it was going to be yet they were not especially down in the dumps and joked of it when they talked. It's hard to understand things of that sort especially when you know it's to be, then read of the results still not certain how your friends may be faring." He also mentions the battles in Germany and the bombing of Tokyo. He hopes that the end of the war is near. He replies to Susan that he sent Doris Bixler a grass skirt a month ago. He describes a movie he watched titled Dragon Seed with Katherine Hepburn.

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016
Graeff, Raymond James, 1889-1963
Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967
Fencil, Lorraine, fl. 1928-1946
Graeff, Margurite, fl. 1943-1946
Huber, Florence, fl. 1943-1945
Winemiller, Robert A., fl. 1921-1947
Miller, Richard C., fl. 1941-1945
Stouffer, Wayne, fl. 1943-1945
Graeff, Malinda, fl. 1943-1945
Riccruit, Mike, fl. 1945
Bretz, W.S., fl. 1945
Bixler, Doris, fl. 1944-1945

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