Private letter, 7 June 1918, one member of a Yale senior society to another
- Origin
- A university library manuscript collection, New Haven
- Dated
- 7 June 1918
- Extent
- 1 pages
- Status
- accepted
- Redactions
- None. The bracketed note is ours and is marked as ours.
Chain of custody
Located in an open, catalogued manuscript collection by a historian in 2005 and reported at the time. Our correspondent filled in a call slip in the reading room on 14 January 2026 and the folder arrived in eleven minutes. It is not sealed, not restricted, and not held by anybody with an interest in it. We photographed it under supervision with the library's permission and publish both our photograph and the catalogue entry, so that anybody who wants to check our reading can order the same folder.
Held by: Original remains with the library; They Buried holds a photograph and the call slip
Excerpt
…is now safe inside the T— together with his well worn femurs, bit & saddle horn. [The writer was not at Fort Sill. The recipient was not at Fort Sill. Neither man is described anywhere in the letter as having been present, and the letter itself attributes the act to third parties.]
Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.
Editor's note
Accepted as a genuine 1918 letter, which is all it is being accepted as. This newspaper files it as evidence of what one young man believed in June 1918 and of nothing else. The document desk's standing rule is that a letter is evidence of its own existence first, of its writer's belief second, and of the world only where the writer was standing in it.
Cited in
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