Title:: Colgate Dorr Papers 1912-1915, 19441944

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:

Colgate Dorr Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.01
Creator:
Dorr, Colgate, 1920-2006 arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Colgate Dorr Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Included are 4 letters of then 2nd Lt. Colgate Dorr (1920-2006) written to his parents between September and November 1944, while stationed in San Francisco, California and then Hawaii during the last year of WW II; and a poem "'We Graduate to War, A Poem for the Class of '41' by Colgate Dorr, '41."Also included are two 1915 stock certificates and a 1912 postcard sent from Germany and addressed to Jessy (?) Colgate, Utica.

Biographical / historical:

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/Colgate_Dorr">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Colgate_Dorr</a>

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 12/10/2009.
Custodial history:

Seller bought collection from the estate of Colgate Dorr.

Processing information:

Accessioned and minimally processed in December 2009 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.