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- Collection: Kay's Work and Personal Correspondence
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1942 7 23, Letter from Robert Inglis, preacher, to Kay
Inglis says he came to visit on the wrong day. (visitation rules at Tanforan?) Also he says he wants to come again in August to preach.
1942, discarded writing
Kay found a discarded piece of writing in the trash at Tanforan, images/ vignettes of life there
1942 8 18, Letter from Kay to Mr. and Mrs. Morris. Kay discusses a Bulletin No. 30 Application for release, disillusionment with government
Kay shares the rumors about Tule Lake becoming completely run by the military, and current evacuees being moved out. She also thinks that the Bulletin, Application for Leave is a front/ deception to make it appear as though the evacuees are not help…
1942 8 28, Letter from Kay to Miss Kirven, Kay tried to circulate a survey but the military administration is clamping down
Personal update and also update about a survey that Miss Kirven gave to Kay to distribute and collect.
1942 9 7, Letter from Kay to Caleb Foote, describes customary contriband search of 20 men
On the closing of Tanforan, and a party put on by the administration, the army still had to perform a contriband inspection with twenty men before each room. They were so ashamed about doing the search on the last few days, that they barely looked at…
1942 9 7 Letter from Kay to Syl and Goth
Kay writes "Life must be superficially normal out there too (that expression "out there" seems odd but, that's the way we've begun to think of the place beyond this Camp -- it's just somewhere absolutely apart from us-- we're just a world apart) She…
1942 9 Letter from Kay to Frida
Kay explains that Frida should make sure that others who see the letter she wrote understand that she doesn't think that Japanese Americans are not the only ones to suffer, but she refutes the claim that evacuation was based on military necessity and…
1942 Sept 20 Letter from Margaret T. Fisher in Oakland to Kay
Margaret Fisher tells Kay about friends of hers in Tanforan that she would like Kay to meet. She wanted to come visit Kay in Tanforan but had to take care of her ill mother.
1942 Oct 13 Rough draft of Letter from Kay to Rev. Inglis Plymouth Congregation Church
Kay writes a rough draft letter, and cuts out some parts of the description of life in the incarceration camp, self-censoring notes visible.
1942 Oct 18 Letter from Kay to Rev. and Mrs. Giles in Phoenix, Arizona
A letter from Kay Yamashita to Rev. and Mrs. Giles, telling about her life in recent months (she was offered a job in Washington, DC, but the army wouldn't give her a traveling permit; she has now been transferred from Tanforan to Topaz). The main…
1942 10 26 Handwritten letter from Mrs. Josephine Duveneck to Kay
A letter to Kay Yamashita from Josefine Duveneck, who is working on student reloaction, asking Kay if she would like to leave camp for a job on the outside.
1942 Nov 1 Letter from Kay to Caleb Foote
Kay awaits Caleb's visit to Topaz, making the final arrangements for Caleb's upcoming visit to camp. People don't know much about the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
1942 Nov 11, Letter from Caleb Foote to Kay
Caleb Foote tries to arrange a friend to visit Topaz from Salt Lake City, and encourages Kay to form a Fellowship of Reconciliation group at Topaz.
1942 Nov 14 Letter from Kay to Martha
Page 1: Kay Yamashita has had several job offers, but is hesistant in leaving, anxious to jump at leaving because her parents worry for him. Despite this, Kay and Iyo are pretty sure that they will leave. She works in Student Relocation- advising,…