July 1, 1945 Letter to Hope Dan

July 1, 1945 Letter to Hope Dan

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This is a PDF of a letter from the Special Collections section of the University of Memphis Library. Lieutenant Merrill Dan writes a letter to Hope Bespalow, who is a college student at the University of Wisconsin. They were both natives of Memphis, Tennessee. This letter is typed by Dan and was written on July 1, 1945. The letter is on a very thin see through piece of paper. The letter is typed. In the letter, Dan refers to Hope as his wife and he says how hard it is to keep their marriage a secret. He also speaks of how hard it is to keep the secret that she is now his wife. He also refers to her as ‘honey’ many times and there is an obvious change in his references that he uses towards her compared to when they first began writing letters.

Dan, Merrill

Hope and Merrill Dan Papers Box 1, Folder 33 MSS 274

The University of Memphis Libraries

July 1, 1945

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