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Preferred Citation

Joseph D. Dew letters, 1931. MS 0147. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

Joseph DeJarnette Dew was born in 1912 in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In February 1931, Joseph D. Dew and William F. Ramson (VMI Class of 1932) secured jobs as deck hands on a freighter and worked their way to Europe. Dew graduated VMI in 1934. During World War II he was a Captain in the United States Army. After the War he was an investment broker. Dew died in 1968 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Scope and Contents

The Joseph D. Dew letters consist of 21 letters (dated February to April 1931) from Joseph D. Dew to his parents, written on board a ship and while touring Europe.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Europe—Description and travel
• Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1930-1939
• Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1934