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Preferred Citation

Colgate Dorr Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased in December 2009.

Scope and Contents

Included are 4 letters of then 2nd Lt. Colgate Dorr (1920-2006) written to his parents between September and November 1944, while stationed in San Francisco, California and then Hawaii during the last year of World War II; and a poem "'We Graduate to War, A Poem for the Class of '41' by Colgate Dorr, '41."

Also included are two 1915 stock certificates and a 1912 postcard sent from Germany and addressed to Jessy (?) Colgate, Utica.

Related Material

Elizabeth E. Hoyt Composition Book, which was initially acquired from the same estate. The Hoyt and Dorr families intermarried in the earlier part of the 19th century.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• United States--Poetry
• World War, 1939-1945--United States--Personal narratives