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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 09: A Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Jack Belden, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 09: A Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Jack Belden, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A letter from Henrietta Thompson to Jack Belden following his letter of Dec. 1973. Here Thompson is asking for Belden’s version of an account she has heard, she says, “from a dozen or more people,” of American officers proposing to leave the nurses (most of whom were refugees) behind at the start of the walk out of Burma, and to escape without them. Unfortunately we do not have Belden’s response to this letter (if he wrote one), but in the “Addenda” Thompson provides a new version of this story, which may summarize Belden’s recollection of the event.
Thompson Document 10: Henrietta Thompson's "Addenda" To Jack Belden File, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 10: Henrietta Thompson's "Addenda" To Jack Belden File, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
Henrietta Thompson's notes on Jack Belden. These notes seem to be a combination of Thompson’s memories of meeting Belden and perhaps a summary of Belden's account of an argument that took place at the start of the Walkout; several of Thompson's interviewees mentioned this argument that revolved around the suggestion, by one or some of the Americans, that they leave some of the group behind in order to expedite their own escape from Burma.
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.