Perguson, Dee Carl, 1921-2010 (SC 2861)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

10-14-2014

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2861. Letters of Ohio County, Kentucky native Dee Carl Perguson, written to Marjorie Clagett, his French teacher at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, during his World War II military service and afterward. He writes observantly of military life while training in Ohio, Georgia and Pennsylvania, of his experiences while serving in North Africa and Italy, and of his reassignment to Florida after suffering an arm wound. He also describes local plant life to Clagett, an accomplished amateur botanist. After the war, he writes from England during his postgraduate study. Settled in Seattle, Washington, he writes of his interest in plant life and of his cultural and church activities. Also includes some notes of Clagett’s summarizing their correspondence.

Disciplines

Botany | Military History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Perguson, Dee Carl, 1921-2010 (SC 2861)" (2014). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 3620.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/3620