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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 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 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 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 29 Letter from Union to John
Union Seminary makes an offer.
1942 9 26 Letter from Kay to Tom
Kay describes leaving Tanforan: Travelling by train: sleeping on seat pulled together "with feet going both ways" since they weren't allowed to "pull down upper berths." Not permitted to leave train at all, only visit between trains at designated…
