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Preferred Citation:

Henry Clyde Ross Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in March 2011.

Scope and Contents

Letters, 1953-1955, of Henry Clyde Ross to his fiancée, Ella Brown, while the former was a private in the United States Army. Letters primarily detail Ross's life at basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia, his trip to Fort Lewis in Washington, and then his service in Korea after the war ended.

In the last few letters, Ross writes that he is worried that something is wrong and that he has been hearing things from other people who write to him. In the penultimate letter, it seems as though Brown had written Ross a letter ending their engagement and sent with it her engagement ring.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Dating (Social customs)
• Engaged women
• Korean War, 1950-1953
• Letters (correspondence)
• Marriage--United States--History--20th century