Colgate Dorr Papers 1912-1915, 1944 1944

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
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Summary

Extent:
0.01
Creator:
Dorr, Colgate, 1920-2006 arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English

Background

Scope and content:

Included are 4 letters of then 2nd Lt. Colgate Dorr (1920-2006) written to his parents between September and November 1944, while stationed in San Francisco, California and then Hawaii during the last year of WW II; and a poem "'We Graduate to War, A Poem for the Class of '41' by Colgate Dorr, '41."Also included are two 1915 stock certificates and a 1912 postcard sent from Germany and addressed to Jessy (?) Colgate, Utica.

Biographical / historical:

Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:<a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Colgate_Dorr">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Colgate_Dorr</a>

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 12/10/2009.