Henry Clyde Ross Letters

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Henry Clyde Ross Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Summary

Extent:
0.50 Linear Feet
Creator:
Ross, Henry Clyde
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Henry Clyde Ross Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Background

Scope and content:

Letters, 1953-1955, of Henry Clyde Ross to his fiancée, Ella Brown, while the former was a private in the United States Army. Letters primarily detail Ross's life at basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia, his trip to Fort Lewis in Washington, and then his service in Korea after the war ended.

In the last few letters, Ross writes that he is worried that something is wrong and that he has been hearing things from other people who write to him. In the penultimate letter, it seems as though Brown had written Ross a letter ending their engagement and sent with it her engagement ring.

Processing information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in March 2011.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard