John L. Stephens "Steve" to Jewel L. Roan, January 28, 1919
date: label: date made
content: 1919-01-28
name: label: user
content: Roane, Mary Llewellyn
notes: label: Description
content: Seven-page handwritten letter to "My dear little Sister" [Jewel Roan] from "Your big brother, 'Steve' " [Sgt. John L. Stephens]. Letter was wiritten from Blois, Base Hospital #43, dated January 28, 1919. Due to a typographical error, Mary Llewellyn Roane was known as Jewel L. Roan during her WWI service. Sergeant John L. Stephens, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, worked in the Central Laboratory at Base Hospital #43 with Jewel Roan. Ms. Roan left the Hospital on January 13, 1919 and was transferred to Savenay Hospital Center. The letter was written about two weeks after her departure.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Centre-Val de Loire, Blois
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen L. Moore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3083.18
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3083.18
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.2 cm x 20.3 cm; 5 3/16 in x 8 in