Arnold's Story: December 1, 1944

Hazel writes from home now that she has recovered sufficiently from her operation:

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Chuck Cutler writes from Caltech:

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Arnold's Story: November 19, 1944 Dolly

From Dolly's letter, we see that Hazel is home after her operation and being tended to by a private nurse, who turns out to be the mother of a friend (or classmate) of theirs. 

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Arnold's Story: November 19, 1944 Arnold

Arnold is finishing his training at Harvard and preparing to start at MIT. He and his friend Jim McDade went to North Boston to visit the neighborhood where his father, William Nevis, was born and spent a few early years before the Nevis family moved to Central California.

Arnold was enthusiastic about the 1944 biographical film Wilson, about former President Woodrow Wilson, directed by Henry King and starring Charles Coburn and Alexander Knox, among others.  

The building is 21 Charter Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It would have been a fairly new building at the time of Bill's birth in 1890. 

Google Maps image of 21 Charter Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

And the neighborhood is this:

Google Maps (21 Charter St., Boston, MA, USA)

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Arnold's Story: November 12, 1944

Dolly writes that their mother Hazel is recuperating well from surgery.

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Arnold's Story: November 9, 1944 Dolly

I am not sure what kind of operation Hazel Nevis had. She had had cancer once (and an autopsy reveal a recurrence at the time of death, but not a cause) so perhaps this is what the procedure was about.

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Arnold's Story: November 2, 1944

A letter from Arnold's Caltech friend Al Grote:

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Arnold's Story: October 27, 1944

A letter with news from the Nevis clan in the Central Valley of California:

I believe the relatives cited here are Edwin Mello, Hazel Mello, Helen Mello, Katherine (Catherine) Mello, Edwin and sister's father Manuel Mello, and Bill Nevis's sisters Mary Madruga and Mary Ann Silva. Hanford is where Bill grew up on the various family farms: first in his parents' household, then in two of his sisters' homes, and also on a neighbor's farm (after he ran away from his brothers-in-law).

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Arnold's Story: October 24, 1944

When Elmer Hall says "second civil", I am not sure what he references; a second lieutenant is a commissioned office in the Marines, so not really a civilian. WAVES are women volunteers in the U.S. Navy (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and BAMs are the Marine Corps equivalent (a crude acronym for Broad-Assed Marines). 

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Arnold's Story: October 18, 1944

Some fifteen months after he enrolled in the Army, Arnold received a parchment certificate from the City of Glendale, California, honoring his enrollment.

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Arnold's Story: October 11, 1944

I cannot tell from this letter if Laura's friend is Virginia Ronley or Virginia Rowley.

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