Description: [029346] (Americana - Correspondence - 1950s). 1953 - 1956 Group of Correspondence, Written to a Woman with a Wide Circle of Male Friends & Admirers. Letters written to Miss Elizabeth Poplin, of Atlanta Georgia and (later) Texas. Including: 8 Letters, Chapel Hill NC: From Ed Williams, 1953 – 1954 On Chapel Hill Political Science Dept. letterhead from Working on advanced degree; temp-teaching at the school; temp-working a tobacco production business; awaiting results of a Foreign Service examination, for eventual job placement. With chatty news about football rivalries with Georgia, difficulties with students including cheating on tests, worries about the advancement of career. (NOTE: He succeeded in his FS endeavor; there is an article in the 1997 American Diplomacy journal article by retired FS officer J.E. Williams regarding a later career as a State Dept. interpreter.) 19 Letters, Parsons & Pittsburg KS: Jack Helmer, 1953-56. “…You will (I trust) be happy to learn that I have completely retrogressed in the matter of drinking, having thoroughly lost three past week-ends…the week-end of the 7th the boss and I went to Kansas City as the guests of a truck line, all expenses paid. Imagine our horror when we discovered that our host was a non-drinker! This so shook our nerves that we were forced to obtain a fifth of Scotch and retire to the hotel room and drink the whole fifth before we were sufficiently calmed down…” Funny, chatty and typed; in the railroad freight & transport business. 35 Letters, Tulsa OK & Dallas TX: J.M. Redway, 1952 – 1955. Very ‘smitten’ love letters, from a distant admirer, a bit desperate; generally over-the-top sentiments. The end: “…As for you marrying me I truly don’t believe you would ever be happy with such an arrangement. I remember so man of the things you expressed as not liking in me and besides as you once said what could I ever do for you? Monetarily I am much worse off than last year…” The final dying act seems to take a very long time, drawn out over a couple of years. 3 Letters, Ft. Bragg NC: 1955. Frederick Englett, U.S. 504th Army Airborne PFC; on Airborne letterhead. “…Don’t know how to dance real good, but not the worst dancer in Atlanta…”; a riot and violence on base; training jumps; orders to Germany with 11th Airborne. 4 Letters, Ft. Ord CA: 1956. Dale Stadel, U.S. 84th Eng. Bn. Visit to Hollywood, Hotel Plaza & ‘driving around’ in ’54 Olds to Beverly Hills; disciplinary measures for friends that fall afoul of curfew regulations on base; building an airfield; attempts at higher classification & education; mention of several courts martial summary & general; concern for parents’ need for help at work on the farm; fishing boat on the rocks salvaged by base personnel; clothing regulations; war fears & counting the day to get out of the service. 2 Letters, Atlanta: 1953. From S.M. Hamilton. Romantic reminiscence of a date night; 3 holiday greetings with short affectionate notes. 4 Notes & a detailed 3-page typed letter from Washington DC, 1953-55: “…came up here in June 1952 to take a government job in a highly specialized foreign-language training field. Very secret. Even now I’m not supposed to breathe the name of the Agency, which is quite a farce, since everyone in Washington knows not only the name but what it does, and that it is full of the most neurotic kind of crackpots…” And much pithy social, educational, work-related news. Miscellaneous: Circa 30 colorful greeting cards, short notes, including Valentine’s Day & birthday wishes. A 1926 “Baby’s Record” with entries for a 1930 birth; with a ‘Col. Roscoe Turner’s Fying Corps’ membership certificate pasted-in on the front endpaper and with other Flying Corps ephemera laid-in and mailing envelope from the Corps. With details of members of family; Poplin, Padgett, Garrett, Ryals. Worn & soiled, loose in the puffy-cloth illustrated binding; about good condition. (7) Black & white snapshots & portraits of family members. Several single letters, from male friends and admirers; one a typed ‘break-up’ letter finishing a relationship. (8) Telegrams, from boyfriends. Everything in good to very good condition.
Price: 150 USD
Location: Bolivia, North Carolina
End Time: 2024-10-07T23:58:01.000Z
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Date of Publication: 1953 - 1956
Type: Handwritten Manuscript
Place of Publication: UNITED STATES
Language: English
Region: North America
Material: Paper
Subject: SOCIETY MILITARY EDUCATION
Original/Facsimile: Original
