Selected Letters of the Leona Hudson Collection
The letters series of the Leona Hudson Collection is the largest part and spans in time from 1884 to 2008. The most interesting letters from a historical point of view are those from t he earliest years to the 1950’s. With correspondence from three generations, Annie Lee Hill Irvin, Rosa McCann Hill Strickland, and Leona and Dugald Hudson, these letters trace events from the global and obviously historical, such as American Missionaries in China, World War I, World War II and the Korean Conflict, to the historically personal, such as letters from Cuba on honey moon, or the first letter when Dugald begins to speak to Leona as more than a friend and distant cousin.
These letters should be of interest to military and military law historians, American history researchers, researchers in women’s studies, local historians and genealogists. To create this website we have included a small selection of letters selected from the years 1884-1957. These run the gamut from Dugald’s official journal from World War II, the invasion of Germany and his experiences liberating the concentration camp and his work at the end of the war with the Nazi war crimes trials to Annie Lee Irvin’s letters from Cuba on her honeymoon. If you want to find more letters on these and other topics, please see our Catalog of the Hudson Collection. Since many of these letters have been described as individual items, you should be able to easily find what you look for.
