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Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (January 3-10, 1945) [Puckett Family Papers]

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Title	Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (January 3-10, 1945) [Puckett Family Papers]
Date	1945-01
Creator (individual)	Puckett, Beth
Subject headings	Greensboro (N.C.) -- History--20th century World War, 1939-1945
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Letters written by Beth Puckett to her husband Lewis Puckett who was serving in the US Navy in the Pacific Theatre. The letters feature frequent expressions of loneliness, longing, and affection. Other topics include housework, social interactions, errands, memories, conversations with other women about having to manage households on their own, making airplane models with their son Stephen, cutting their daughter Sherry's hair, the psychological strain of the homefront, the emotional connection brought by hanging up a map Lewis sent home, rationing, playing the piano, snippets of poetry, updates on the children's behavior, the lengths to which one must go to find tobacco in stores, updates on friends and acquaintances, upcoming birthdays, the draft, and immunization shots.
Type	Text
Original format	correspondence
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Contact Information	http://library.uncg.edu/dp/ttt/greensborohistory.aspx
Source collection	Mss. Coll. 89 Puckett Family Papers
Series/grouping	1: Correspondence
Folder	1.14: Correspondence-- Puckett, Beth -- Letters to Lewis Puckett (1945, Jan. 3-10)
Finding aid link	http://archives.greensborohistory.org/manuscripts/puckett-family
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	GHM_MSS089.001.014
Digital access format	Image/jpeg
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	883243942

Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (January 3-10, 1945) [Puckett Family Papers]

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