Letter 4
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Lamboley, E. Gerald, 1915-2012
label: Collection Creator
content: Sato, Sanji (student)
label: Collection Creator
content: Satow, R. (student)
label: Collection Creator
content: Satow, Susama Paul (student)
label: Collection Creator
content: Sato, Kiyo (student)
label: Collection Creator
content: Komata, Tomi (student)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gerald Lamboley Collection of Japanese-American Letters
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943-04-19 - 1943-04-19
container: label: Container
content: Box 1 (Shared Box), Folder 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: April 19, 1943.

Dear Miss Cox, 

We reached Keenesburg on April 16 after a very long and tiresome trip.  It is certainly wonderful to live a normal life after almost a year of camp life.  As you probably know we don't have an electricity or running water.  It certainly is inconvenient after living in a place where we did not give one thought to them.  We learned to appreciate the little things that makes a great deal of difference once we are cut off from them.  Of course, this isn't true of all the farms in this vicinity but it is true as one gets further east of the county.  It is wonderful to view the scenery here.  We see miles and miles of hills and plains some of them [alfalfa] and others where beets were planted just recently.  No mountains are in view except on a very clear day.  We saw one high peak (It might have been Pike Peak) covered with snow.  The scenery is wonderful coming up for Colo. Springs to Denver.  I noticed that most of the lands in Arizona and N. Mex. are wasted.  There seem to be no life at all around in those regions except a few adobe shacks inhabited probably by Indians or Mexicans.  Nothing like good old Calif. Once one draws away from the state can one appreciated the goodness that is in it.

You might be interested to know that Frank Kitada is also here in Colorado.  The family will probably move in the near future.

We certainly appreciated all the things that you have done for us to resettle here in Colorado.  Lots of luck to you.
  				Love,

R. Satow & family