Doris Holmes Blake - Correspondence with Lucy Wentworth Holmes, January 1942 - October 1943

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By winter 1943, more than a year after the United States’ entry into World War II, Americans at home were being asked to make sacrifices. In letters from 86-year-old Lucy Wentworth Holmes, to her daughter, Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, the older woman often commented on her supplies of butter, milk, coffee, and meat, chalking her good fortune up to store loyalty and trading. When the holidays rolled around, Holmes explained that she would not send presents that year and scolded that her daughter would be “very foolish to think of giving” that year. Join a group of volunpeers in transcribing this project, which reveals some of the day-to-day anxieties American experienced on the homefront during the war.

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