"There
is a colored lad, 23 yrs old, working here at the hospital, he came from
Lyberia and has just been in this country about 9 or 10 days, he comes in the
room and I visit and ask him questions about himself & his country said his
father is a fisherman, they dry the fish to preserve them have no canneries or
modern equipment he has never seen
natural frozen ice or or seen such machinery as a combine or binder work, he
said one day the first of this week it was kinda cool here and he said it was
cold to him. He said his folks lived
right by the ocean said they dip water of the ocean sometimes to boil the salt
out of it to get salt, he is going to Friends University this winter plans to
make a doctor out of himself, he talks pretty good English, the missionaries
taught him English.”
--Letter from my grandfather, Leonard Reeves
Brown, recuperating from knee surgery in Wichita, Kans., to my father, Sidney
DeVere Brown, Notre Dame, Ind., Tuesday, June 13, 1944.
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