PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01337::A Guide to the David Grey Letter)//EN" "viu01337.xml" A Guide to the David Gray Letter February 24, 1961Gray, David 11242 Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2001 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word, created by Sue Cuthbertson, 3/29/2001 Description is in English Feb 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01337::A Guide to the David Grey Letter)//EN" "viu01337.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the David Gray Letter February 24, 1961 A Collection in The Special Collections Department 11242

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2001 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library David Gray Letter February 24, 1961 11242 A one page, typed letter, with envelope. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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David Gray Letter, 1969, Accession #11242, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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This item was transferred from the Rare Books Division on June 21, 1996, where it had been laid in the front of Gallopsby David Gray, an author from the Marion du Pont Scott Collection.

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This collection consists of an one-page typed letter, with envelope, February 24, 1961, signed by David Gray (1870-1968), Sarasota, Florida, to Peggy Kellem [Mrs. Robert Kellem], East Chatham, New York. Gray thanks Kellem for the gift of the book, The Longest Dayabout which he says, "Reading it was the experience of the winter, magnified by the fact that one of the 82nd Airborne who was behind the lines all that 'longest' night was actually in the room talking to me." He also mentions the appointment of General [James M.] Gavin as Ambassador to France. Brigadier General James Maurice Gavin led the assault of the 82nd Airborne Division during the "longest day" of World War II, June 6, 1944.