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Thompson Document 21: A Letter From Ruby Johnson To Henrietta Thompson, Ruby Johnson
Thompson Document 21: A Letter From Ruby Johnson To Henrietta Thompson, Ruby Johnson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter from Ruby Johnson to Henrietta Thompson. It seems that Johnson is here responding to a request from Thompson that she send some Burmese phrases for Thompson to include in her Walk a Little Faster history of the Walkout.
Thompson Document 20: A Letter From Ruby Johnson To Henrietta Thompson, Ruby Johnson
Thompson Document 20: A Letter From Ruby Johnson To Henrietta Thompson, Ruby Johnson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter from Ruby Johnson, a nurse who participated in the 1942 Walkout from Burma to India, to Henrietta Thompson. Johnson was the first of the Walkout participants Thompson interviewed, and Thompson particularly enjoyed this meeting and was indebted to Johnson not only for offering an account of her own experiences, but also for making Thompson aware of a number of nurses who had participated on the Walkout in Burma and also Hla Sein in the U.S. who initially resisted being interviewed about the Walkout. In this letter, Johnson mentions having recently seen Hla Sein, who was by then their …
Thompson Document 26: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 26: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter from Henrietta Thompson to Tun Shein, which is evidently in response to a letter Tun Shein had sent her. Thompson mentions some of their mutual acquaintances and asks whether either Tun Shein or his wife Lulu recognize any of the names on a list of Walkout participants who were then presumably still living in Burma, but whom she had been unable to meet during her brief visit.
Thompson Document 25: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein And Lulu, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 25: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein And Lulu, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter from Henrietta Thompson to Tun Shein and Lulu. Thompson thanks Tun Shein and Lulu for their hospitality and refers to a few details of her trip to Burma
Thompson Document 24: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 24: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter from Henrietta Thompson to Tun Shein, in which Thompson discusses her upcoming visit to Burma. She mentions a number of Walkout participants in Burma whom she hopes to meet, and asks Tun Shein to help her by writing to them.
Thompson Document 23: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein And Lulu, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 23: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Tun Shein And Lulu, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter of introduction from Henrietta Thompson to two Walkout participants, Tun Shein and Lulu—who had since married and re-settled in Burma—proposing that she meet them in Burma in the summer of that year, 1972.