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Caroline Service letters to Lisa Green : TLS and ALS, 1950 Sept.-1995 April.
BANC MSS 99/81 czLOCAL
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Title:
Caroline Service letters to Lisa Green : TLS and ALS, 1950 Sept.-1995 AprilCreator/Contributor:
Service, Caroline Schulz, 1909-1997, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Green, Lisa (Lispenard), -1996Abstract:
Consists of letters written almost weekly by Caroline Service to her friend and fellow wife of a Foreign Service Officer,
Lisa (Lispenard) Green. The letters begin in Sept. 1950, during her stay in India while waiting for her husband, John (Jack)
Service to join her at his new posting. She discusses Jack's professional career and activities, including his trial by the
House Un-American Activities Committee, as well as the Green's professional life and travels in Asia and Europe. Caroline
also wrote about her own family's professional and personal travels to New York, Liverpool, and Spain, as well as their several
trips to China. Topics of her letters also include their new homes and surroundings; children and grandchildren; presidential
elections; the Oakland-Berkeley Hills fire of 1991; and everyday events in their life in the San Francisco Bay Area, including
theater, trips to San Francisco, holidays and birthdays, books, relatives and mutual friends, and in her later years, their
health.
Date:
1950 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- a------ -- e------Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire, 1991
Diplomats' spouses
Wives -- Effect of husband's employment on
Wives -- Effect of husband's retirement on
Diplomates -- Conjoints
Femmes mariées -- Effets du travail du mari sur
Femmes mariées -- Effets de la retraite du mari sur
Diplomats' spouses
Employees
Travel
Wives -- Effect of husband's employment on
Wives -- Effect of husband's retirement on
China -- Description and travel
Spain -- Description and travel
Liverpool (England) -- Description and travel
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Oakland (Calif.) -- Description and travel
India -- Description and travel
Chine -- Descriptions et voyages
Espagne -- Descriptions et voyages
Inde -- Descriptions et voyages
California -- Berkeley
California -- Oakland
China
England -- Liverpool
India
Spain
United States. -- Foreign Service -- Officials and employees
United States. -- Foreign Service
Service, John S. (John Stewart) -- 1909-1999
Service, John S. (John Stewart) -- 1909-1999
Type:
biographyLetters.
Physical Description:
print
5 boxes (1.8 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 99/81 czLOCAL