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Letter and Documents Pertaining to the War Effort

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Letter and Documents Pertaining to the War Effort

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Personal letter (1943?) on War Department, Military Intelligence Service, stationary thanking Louis Pierre Ledoux for (and returning) the book by Stephen Winsor Reed on New Guinea [The Making of Modern New Guinea]; an (incomplete) form collecting data on the less known islands and regions of the Pacific, to be submitted to "interested agencies of the United States Government" with 1942 envelope sent from Yale University Institute of Human Relations.

Date: 1930-40's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection