Identity elements
Reference code
US US kmk 2019-20.001-2-5-1-1
Level of description
File
Title
Folder 1: “Birthday Letter,” Country Gentleman, Vol. CXV, No. 3
Date(s)
- 1945 March (Creation)
Extent
2 pages
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This letter was written by Marian Tucker Springer describing the famine in China and letting her father, Joseph M. Tucker, know hard it was to feed her family. After reading this letter Joseph Tucker was inspired to write a proposal to the War Food Administration to began the Harvest Brigade.