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Albert Clodius.
Letters, 1943-1945.
Acquired through the Portwood Endowed Fund for the Stanford University Archives.
Albert Clodius graduated from Stanford in 1940 and served as a cryptographer in the Army Air Force Training Command in World War II. Over a period of two years Clodius wrote letters to a Stanford professor of history, in which he discussed the state of the teaching program at Stanford and the state of history education generally. Although the letters Clodius received are not extant, he often responded to remarks made in those letters providing the reader with information about the intellectual climate of the campus. Clodius was posted to Northern Africa and, despite the military censors, the letters are rich documentation of a young man's experience of wartime service, the cultures he encountered, and the places he visited.
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