Title:: Robert F. Fiske Papers 1943-1947

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:

Robert F. Fiske Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.01
Creator:
Fiske, Robert F. Fiske, Deborah Merrifield, Clara arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Robert F. Fiske Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Letters from Robert F. Fiske, a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve during World War II, possibly stationed or serving in Washington, D.C., Norfolk, Virginia and Bermuda, to his wife, Deborah Fiske. His wife appears to live in Brookline, then Boston, Massachusetts. He is an educated man who writes with a casual style. Five letters, 1 note, empty envelopes.Three unrelated items were included with this accession:Two items from World War II - description of Shaef War Room at Reims, France and Holiday programs at Toul, France.One group from World War I - an appeal for aid by Lieutenant de Dorlodot, with a copy of a letter from Baron de Broqueville, Belgian Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Biographical / historical:

Robert F. Fiske was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve during World War II, possibly stationed or serving in Washington, D.C., Norfolk and Bermuda. 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/Robert F. Fiske">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Robert F. Fiske</a>.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 00/00/2008.
Arrangement:

Chronological.