PUBLIC "-//College of William and Mary::Earl Gregg Swem Library::Special Collections//TEXT (US::ViW::viw00475:: Colgate Dorr Papers, 1912-1944)//EN" "viw00475.xml" Inventory of the Colgate Dorr Papers 1912-1944 Dorr, Colgate Papers Mss. Acc. 2009.586 Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary © 2012 By the College of William and Mary. All rights reserved.

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Finding aid created by Ute Schechter, 2009 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. Inventory of the Colgate Dorr Papers, 1912-1944 A Collection in theSpecial Collections Research Center Mss. Acc. 2009.586

Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary 2012 Special Collections Staff. Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary Overview of the Collection Special Collections Research Center Colgate Dorr Papers 1912-1915, 19441944 01/Mss. Acc. 2009.586 0.01 The papers are in: English Dorr, Colgate, 1920-2006 arrangement Administrative Information Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

 Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

 Preferred Citation

Colgate Dorr Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

 Acquisition Information

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

 Custodial History

Seller bought collection from the estate of Colgate Dorr.

 Processing Information

Accessioned and minimally processed in December 2009 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.

 Biographical Note

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>

 Scope and Contents

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.

 Additional Information Related Materials

See also Mss. Acc. 2009.585, Elizabeth E. Hoyt Composition Book, which was initially acquired from the same estate. The Hoyt and Dorr families intermarried in the earlier part of the 19th century.

 Index Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Letters (correspondence) Stock certificates Topical Term: Poems Postcards. World War, 1939-1945--United States--Personal narratives