Rosalie W. Irwin Letters Rosalie White Irwin Letters MS 00342

Rosalie White Irwin Letters MS 00342


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Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
MS 00342
Title
Rosalie White Irwin Letters 1937-1950
Quantity
1.5 Linear Feet, Fifteen legal sized folders housed in one half and one full Hollinger box.
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Rosalie White Irwin Letters, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary Libraries.

Content Description

A collection of two hundred and twenty-one letters sent to Rosalie White Irwin, a resident of Richmond, Virginia, dated from 1937 to 1950. Most of the letters included are from a variety of male admirers or boyfriends, including her future husband, Ted. The men are all serving in the army at the end of World War II and in the years following. Their letters provide descriptions of army and camp life both at home and abroad in India, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, and the South Pacific. Interspersed are letters from female friends. These letters cover a variety of topics including daily life and career choices that the women are pursuing; one woman in particular writes about serving as an operating room nurse at a veteran's hospital.

This collection also contains seventeen negatives, five photographs, and three metal address plates.

Content warnings for derogatory language.

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Container List

Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 1
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1937-1941
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 2
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder
1942
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 3
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1943
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 4
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1944
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 5
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
1945-01-1945-05
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 6
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1945-06-1945-07
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 7
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder
1945-08
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 8
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1945-09-1945-10
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 9
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder
1945-11
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 1 Folder: 10
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1945-12
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 2 Folder: 11
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1946-01-1946-02
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 2 Folder: 12
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
1946-03-1946-10
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 2 Folder: 13
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder.
1947-1950
Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 2 Folder: 14
Rosalie White Irwin Letters
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder
Undated
Scope and Contents

Along with several letters, this folder contains two stamps, a pay envelope, and twelve (a year's worth) of work preformance reveiw slips for Rosalie White.

Mixed Materials Rosalie White Irwin Box 2 Folder: 15
Rosalie White Irwin Letters, Photographs, Negatives, and Address Plates
0.1 Linear Feet One legal sized folder
1945
Scope and Contents

Three metal plates with the names and addresses of John H. White, Mrs. J.H. White, and Flora V. Headen. There are twelve photo negatives, and three photographs. The photographs are from India, the negatives depict a trip to a zoo.