"I HAD IT BETTER . . . BEING KEPT IN THE CAMP HOSPITAL . . .. NEVERTHELESS I LOST ABOUT TEN POUNDS . . . HARD WORK AND POOR FOOD." - Letter from an American missionary to her brother as she travels home aboard the Swedish Repatriation Ship Gripsholm after having been released from a Japanese internment camp in China.
Near Rio de Janiero to Omak, Washington: December 1943. Envelope or Cover. This two-page airmail letter sent by an American missionary, is written on “Motorship Gripsholm” stationery and datelined “Nearing Rio de Janiero S. A. / Nov. 12, 1943.” The envelope is franked with an orange 6-cent Presidential Series stamp..... More