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Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (February, 1945) [Puckett Family Papers]

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Title	Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (February, 1945) [Puckett Family Papers]
Date	1945-02
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 include several expressions of affection, loneliness, and longing. Other topics include the inconsistency of mail delivery, care packages, Lewis' gifts (including shell necklaces and grass skirts), improving her cooking, considering taking a job, sending valentines, traveling arrangements and experiences, plumbing issues, having to cut a permanent out of her hair, updates on acquaintances having babies, an annoying boarder's birthday, the misery of having a bad cold, stupid acquaintances, songs playing on the radio as she wrote, the morality of women whose husbands were abroad, immunization shots, a baby abandoned at the railroad station, going to a ballet and opera performance, housework, weighing the children, going to the movies, and updates on friends and family.
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	1.16: Correspondence-- Puckett, Beth -- Letters to Lewis Puckett (1945, Feb.)
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_MSS089.001.016
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	883243967

Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (February, 1945) [Puckett Family Papers]

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