Letters, Feb. 10, 1941

Utopia in Arkansas

Sirs:

Here is a letter from my recently mobilized "little" brother [Staff Sergeant Lysle I. Abbott, at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark.]. He is 22 years old; graduated from college last year and intends to resume his education in law after his military service is completed. . . .

MILDRED FINDLEY New York City

. . . These tents we are living in are not tents at all, but rather cabins. Canvas they do have, but the board floors, over cement blocks, plus clapboard siding, coupled with the glass...

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