Dowdy Family Letters

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440

Summary

Extent:
0.25 Linear Feet
Creator:
Gary Alonzo Barranger and Dowdy, Daniel David
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Collection of letters to and from the Dowdy family from 1944-69. Daniel and Gladys Dowdy were residents of Eggleston, VA. Their letters to each other, written in 1944-45, discuss their life together, their plans for after the war, and their romance in explicit detail. Also includes letters from 1961-62 from the Dowdy children's German penpal, and letters from 1969 as son Harold began basic training in the US Army.

Biographical / historical:

Daniel David Dowdy was born in 1925 in Giles, VA, and enlisted in the US Army in 1944. Gladys Pyne was born in 1924, and they married in 1944. They divorced in 1970 and Daniel remarried soon after. Gladys died in 2000 and Daniel died in 2007.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard