Title:: Brzezicki Family Letters 1968-1972

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:

Collection is open to all researchers.

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:

Brzezicki Family Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.80
Creator:
Brzezicki, Daniel T., 1949-1972 Brzezicki family Brzezicki, Martine Erney Brzezicki, Michael Place, Kathleen Brzezicki arrangement
Abstract:
Letters, 1968-1972, of the Brzezicki family of Quakerstown, Pennsylvania, including 71 of Daniel Brzezicki's letters home during his time in the Marine Corps (1968-1970). Daniel's letters begin with his training at Parris Island, South Carolina starting in May 1968, and continue through his service. He spent most of his service years at Camp Pendleton, California, and then, beginning roughly in March of 1969, at an I-Corps ammo dump approximately 10 miles north of Da Nang in Vietnam. The collection also contains six letters from Daniel's brother Michael in the Navy (1970-1972), six letters from their sister Katie B. Place in Lawton, Oklahoma, (1968-1969), 75 condolence cards from various people to the Brzezicki family upon Daniel's death in 1972, and miscellaneous items.
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Brzezicki Family Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Letters, 1968-1972, of the Brzezicki family of Quakerstown, Pennsylvania, including 71 of Daniel Brzezicki's letters home during his time in the Marine Corps (1968-1970). Daniel's letters begin with his training at Parris Island, South Carolina starting in May 1968, and continue through his service. He spent most of his service years at Camp Pendleton, California, and then, beginning roughly in March of 1969, at an I-Corps ammo dump approximately 10 miles north of Da Nang in Vietnam. The collection also contains six letters from Daniel's brother Michael in the Navy (1970-1972), six letters from their sister Katie B. Place in Lawton, Oklahoma, (1968-1969), 75 condolence cards from various people to the Brzezicki family upon Daniel's death in 1972, and miscellaneous items.

Biographical / historical:

Daniel Brzezicki was born at Quakerstown, PA in 1949 the son of Theodore J. and Martine Erney Brzezicki. Daniel served in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970. He died in May 1972. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Daniel T. Brzezicki">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Daniel T. Brzezicki</a>.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 00/00/2007.
Processing information:

Processed by Jack Fiorini during summer 2007.

Physical description:
160 items