UUS_mss309.xml Guide to the Melba Johnson World War II correspondence, 1940-1945 Johnson (Melba) World War II correspondence 1940-1945 Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2008
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-07-15. Finding guide is in English in Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Melba Johnson World War II correspondence UUS_COLL MSS 309 1 box .5 linear feet 1940-1945 This collection contains approximately 75 letters written to Melba Johnson by Cache Valley residents who participated in World War II. Both soldiers and nurses responded from U.S. boot camps, Europe, and the Pacific. These letters discuss the war in general, soldiers' duties, the efforts of Cache Valley women in the war, The Church of Latter-day Saints, and the war, and other similar topics. These letters have been organized alphabetically by the last name of the sender, and those senders who wrote four or more letters have been foldered individually. Collection materials are in English.

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Melba Johnson World War II correspondence, 1940-1945. (COLL MSS 309). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

Letters written to Melba Johnson by Cache Valley residents who participated in World War II.

Beginning in 1943, Melba Johnson of Logan, Utah, a member of the Logan Ninth Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote to Cache Valley soldiers who were serving in World War II (at this time, Johnson's husband was the bishop of the Logan Ninth Ward). This collection consists of Johnson's incoming correspondence from soldiers and nurses who responded to her letters and of newspapers clippings about Cache Valley soldiers. The collection contains approximately 75 letters from both male and female residents of Cache Valley who participated in the war effort, and the collection spans the period from 1940 to 1945. These letters were written by soldiers and nurses stationed in various locations in the United States (while at boot camps), in Europe, and in the Pacific. These letters discuss the war in general, soldiers' duties, the efforts of Cache Valley women in the war, Mormonism and the war, and other similar topics. These letters have been organized alphabetically by the last name of the sender, and those senders who wrote four or more letters have been foldered individually.

Arranged alphabetically by last name of letter author.

 Mormon Church--Utah--Logan. World War, 1939-1945--Women. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects. World War, 1939-1945--War work. Correspondence Incoming correspondence, B-C undated 1 1 Incoming correspondence, Broby, E.M 1943-1945 1 2 Incoming correspondence, E-G undated 1 3 Incoming correspondence, Everton, Joe K. 1943-1944 1 4 Incoming correspondence, H undated 1 5 Incoming correspondence, J-N undated 1 6 Incoming correspondence, P-R undated 1 7 Incoming correspondence, S-W undated 1 8 Incoming correspondence, Sorensen, George C. 1943-1944 1 9 Incoming correspondence, Wheeler, Don M. 1943-1944 1 10 Newspaper clippings about Cache Valley soldiers 1940-1945 1 11 Prayers, poems, and writings about Cache Valley soldiers 1940-1945 1 12