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1942 9 30 Letter from Joseph Conard to John
Frank Herron Smith has gotten John accepted to Garrett and got him a stipend of $35 a month. Frank Herron Smith even took it upon himself to decline an offer made by another seminary offering a scholarship to John. It seems John is pressured to…
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 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 9 Letter from Duveneck to Cary
Duveneck discusses Lincoln Kanai's case and his request for habeus corpus, and his imprisonment for six months for violating the freezing act. Duveneck also responds to Cary's question about the role of protest, and if cooperating with the…
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 Evacuation Report from San Francisco, #2
AFSC Report on the evacuation of Japanese Americans in San Francisco, 3 pages.
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,…
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 Oct 3, Tomi's request for Kimi's family to be moved from Jerome, Arkansas to Topaz, Utah
Kimi and Bob Ono and their daughter Martha were sent to Jerome Incarceration Camp in Arkansas. The family lived in Fresno at the time before evacuation or forced removal and for some reason decided or were not able to travel to Oakland to be united…