A Collection in the Special Collections Research Center
Accession Number Mss. Acc. 2007.55
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special Collections Earl Gregg Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794 USA Phone: (757) 221-3090 Fax: (757) 221-5440 Email: spcoll@wm.edu URL: http://swem.wm.edu/scrc/
Correspondence, photographs, and military papers concerning the World War II service of 2nd Lt. A.N.C. Lina Nancy Potter (1901-1975)
of Narragansett, Rhode Island. Potter enlisted in the United States Armed Forces in 1942 and served as a nurse in a military
hospital in India from 1943-1945. This collection consists of 23 letters of her outgoing wartime correspondence to family
(her Aunt Harriet E. Weaver and Uncle Charles Weaver of Rhode Island) in the United States, her military papers, and three
wartime photographs of Potter and her fellow nurses. Potter's correspondence is of special interest because Potter was allowed
to censor her own letters (perhaps because she was an officer) before they were sent to the United States. Thus, Potter's
correspondence contains a log of wartime conditions at a hospital near Burma, India. Her letters discuss poor food and housing
conditions, status of her work in India, the war in India and China, and aspects relative to women's history during the Second
World War.
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Preferred Citation
Lina Nancy Potter WWII Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from ebay.com on 04/22/2007.
Lina Nancy Potter (1901-1975) of Narragansett, Rhode Island, enlisted in the United States Armed Forces in 1942 and served
as a 2nd Lt. A.N.C. nurse in a military hospital in India from 1943-1945. 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/Lina Nancy
Potter">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Lina Nancy Potter</a>.
Correspondence, photographs, and military papers concerning the World War II service of 2nd Lt. A.N.C. Lina Nancy Potter (1901-1975)
of Narragansett, Rhode Island. Potter enlisted in the United States Armed Forces in 1942 and served as a nurse in a military
hospital in India from 1943-1945. This collection consists of 23 letters of her outgoing wartime correspondence to family
(her Aunt Harriet E. Weaver and Uncle Charles Weaver of Rhode Island) in the United States, her military papers, and three
wartime photographs of Potter and her fellow nurses. Potter's correspondence is of special interest because Potter was allowed
to censor her own letters (perhaps because she was an officer) before they were sent to the United States. Thus, Potter's
correspondence contains a log of wartime conditions at a hospital near Burma, India. Her letters discuss poor food and housing
conditions, status of her work in India, the war in India and China, and aspects relative to women's history during the Second
World War.
Collection has been arranged into three series: Series I: Correspondence, Series II: Military Papers, and Series III: Photographs.
Correspondence has been arranged chronologically.