Tokoshima Family correspondence

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
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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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:

Tokoshima Family correspondence, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
.1 Linear Feet 1 legal size folder.
Language:
Japanese English
Preferred citation:

Tokoshima Family correspondence, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Four letters and postcards from a son, Koichi, in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan, to his parents in Berkeley, California, United States of America. Koichi was staying with relatives in Japan and waiting to go to the United States. The letters were sent in the summer of 1946, after World War II. The letters discuss daily life activities.

Biographical / historical:

The Tokoshima Family correspondence contains letters to and from Koichi, of Japan, son to parents, Isamu and Matsuyo residing in the United States. Koichi and his younger brother, Masayuki, are staying with relatives, the Kusamizus, the Amakis, and the Hiratsukas.

Acquisition information:
Purchased with the Frances Randolph Howard Endowment.
Arrangement:

The Tokoshima Family Correspondence is arranged by file.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard