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Scope and Contents Written from New York while Beth was taking college courses at NYU; updates on New York relatives and her social activities; discusses her job search and informs WK she has a job teaching Civics and Economics at a Long Island High School; details her adjustment to teaching and life in general (in NY); mentions she will take summer classes at Columbia and ponders whether or not to pursue a Masters in Economics; she also considers taking a secretarial course; updates on Leon and Rosalyn;...

Scope and Contents Continued correspondence about Rosalyn's health; discussion of her husband and his book; thoughts and descriptions about her daughter; correspondence as to Rosalyn's belongings (after her death); mentions seeing Harriet and Herbert in New York and visits with the Hirschfeld's; writes about Rachel's school and Joe's job search; expresses discontent with her clerical job (at Columbia University); inquires about Beaufort; commentary on "witch hunting" going on in Washington (McCarthy trials);...

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Misc. letters sent from NY; discussion of her studies; letters from her early years of marriage; misc. updates on her family; discussion of her husband's career troubles.

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Letters written from University of South Carolina, inform her father about classes, social life; mentions spending religious holidays with friends and attending temple; writes of her engagement to Milton Schreiber (while she is living in NY, 1933); inquiries about Beaufort; mentions her mother's ill health; re. odd jobs she takes in NY while she is looking for a medical technician position.

Scope and Contents Details her early years of marriage (in NY); discussion re. Herbert and his schooling; news of Milton's progress in the medical field; mentions visits with Leon and Beth and their activities; discussion of social activities; re. visits with her in-laws; asks her father to relax more; some comments on Leon's work with the US Housing Authority; mentions her work at the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office in NY (1941); asks her father about family history; mid 1943 she is writing from a...

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Letters from college, most discuss her social life; from Washington DC when she was living with Beth; mentions New York relatives and details of her early years of marriage.

Scope and Contents Details of summer vacations in New York; letters written while at College of Charleston discuss his classes, grades and social activities; inquiries about his father's business; comments on a vacation with his mother near Lake Placid and her general state of health; discusses preparing for admission to South Carolina Medical College; letter to William (shortly after Jennie died) expressing his dis-interest in medical school and desire to leave; [he leaves and returns the following year] and...

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From New York; description of his work at Lutheran Hospital in Manhattan; letters written while in the military, (during training, from New River, NC, Company C, First Medical Battalion); comments about his father's decision to sell the Bay St. house in Beaufort; discusses financial matters (estate inheritance, taxes, etc); letters from San Francisco (where he is stationed after returning from the Pacific); several v-mail letters.

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Correspondence from San Francisco military base; mentions an argument with a major over the medicinal uses of alcohol; inquiries about Rosalyn's illness and the state of her marriage; mentions plans to be in New York City (to see Rosalyn); details of his life with his wife, Harriet Hirschfeld, in the months after his discharge.

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Misc. letters written while in college.