Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 19, 1942
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Olexa, Joseph P., “Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 19, 1942,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/46382.
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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 19, 1942
Handwritten letter and envelope with transcript by Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, dated January 19, 1942. The envelope is sent from Co. L, 26th Infantry, Fort Devens, Massachusetts, dated January 1942. In the letter, Joe writes to Agnes after returning back to Fort Devens from their boat trip and recent stay in Norfolk, Virginia, and discusses how he wrote to her aboard the boat and how the mail continues to be censored between them.