A Guide to the Atcheson Laughlin Hench Letters, January-June, 1941 Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, Letters 10,000-g

A Guide to the Atcheson Laughlin Hench Letters, January-June, 1941

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Accession Number 10000-g

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10000-g

Title

Atcheson Hench Letters, January-June, 1941

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of twenty-one letters and postcards.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Atcheson Hench Letters, Accession #10000-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These papers were given to the Library by Mrs. Oscar W. Underwood III (Margaret Hench Underwood) of Winter Haven, Florida, on March 22, 1990.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of twenty-one letters and postcards, January through June, 1941, from Atcheson Laughlin Hench (1891-1974), Charlottesville, Virginia, to his mother, Mrs. Jacob Bixler Hench (1865- 1944) nee Clara John Showalter, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, concerning family, local, and University of Virginia news. Family members frequently mentioned in the letters include Hench's wife, Virginia Bedinger Michie (1897-1971), and his two daughters, Clare and Margaret.

Specific topics in this correspondence include: a description of a meeting of the Modern Language Association, his impressions of Dumas Malone and his wife, and a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 3); his talk given to the Waynesboro Women's Club concerning "Our American Vocabulary" at St. John's Parish House (January 9); the drive at the University of Virginia to buy two mobile canteens to feed the civilians in Great Britain who had undergone intense bombing raids (January 17); the English luncheon day at Farmington with its topic of whether the requirements for the Master's Degree were too stringent and the Albemarle Historical Society meeting in the Minor Hall Theatre featuring music known or played by Thomas Jefferson (January 24); Virginia's involvement in radio broadcasts for a local drive for "Bundles for Britain" (February 8); the Hospital League charity party concerning the history of the popular song held at the Clemons home (February 19); and a talk by Madame Butterfield concerning her experiences with the German invasion of France, especially witnessing the practice landing from barges of the German soldiers in Brittany when hundreds of Germans drowned due to the treacherous currents of the coast (April 1).