Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

Contributor(s):
Sawyer, Margaret
Sawyer, Wilbur A.
Publication:
Produced: 5 July 1918
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Military Medicine
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
After the U.S. entered World War I, Dr. Sawyer accepted a commission as a major in the Medical Reserve Corps in December 1917. In January 1918, he moved to Washington DC to take up his duties in the Venereal Disease Section of the Surgeon General's Office, leaving his family behind in California. In June, after returning from a few days of vacation with his family in Michigan, he received orders to go to Newport News, Virginia, to serve as Supervisor of Non-Military Activities. In this post he was the military liaison with local authorities concerned with keeping order in a town full of new army recruits. Sawyer's military service was his first extended separation from his wife and children (though not his last); his affectionate letters show that he missed them greatly, but also provide extensive commentary on life in the Washington area during the war, and on various activities of military and civilian public health organizations.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
16 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584931X138 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
LWBBJP
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X138
Archival Collection:
The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers (Profiles in Science)