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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 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 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.
1943 Oct 13 Letter from Kay to Joe Goodman and friends ,
A letter from Kay Yamashita--recently transferred from Tanforan to the Central Utah Relocation Project--to Joe Goodman and other friends. She describes the new relocation center, which does not appear to be very nice. Kay has been working with…
Application for Special Transfer - Tomi applies to have her daughter Kimi, son in law Bob, and grandaughter Martha join her at Topaz from Fresno Detention "Assembly" Center.
Tomi writes out a paragraph explaining her case to be reunited with her daughter, son in law and grandaughter and asking for them to be transferred to Topaz since the camps are becoming more permanent.
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 9 14 Tom applies for travel permit to leave Tanforan to go to University of Nebraska for school
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 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 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 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, discarded writing
Kay found a discarded piece of writing in the trash at Tanforan, images/ vignettes of life there
Undated, Handwritten letter from Leah Tokunaga, mentions that "Chieko Yamada married Tomate Sakai (Asako's older brother)"
Asako says (in Jan 2014) that she wasn't invited to her older brother's (Tomotsu/ "Tomate") wedding in Topaz. It was private. Leah Tokunaga writes to Kay "What a surprise."