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 Finding Aid: Carol Maxwell Collection Item Number: 1400000000

Individual Collection
Location: Individual Collections-M


Scope & Content:

  • One folder of poems and letters document Carol Maxwell's son's service in Vietnam, his death due to Agent Orange-related cancer in 1993, and her responses to both. Letters to her son are dated from the 1960s and correpondence to Dr. James Reckner and the poems are dated from the 1990s.

Biographical Note:

  • Carol Maxwell's son, PFC William Maxwell, served with US Marine Air Base Squadron 16 (MABS-16), Marine Air Group 16 (MAG-16), Heavy Equipment, 1968. In 1993, William Maxwell died of Agent Orange-related cancer.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
Ind. Coll. - M11
Carol Maxwell Letters - July 11, 1991
Carol Maxwell Letters - October 1996
Carol Maxwell Letters - March 26, 1996
Carol Maxwell Letters - 29 December 1968
Carol Maxwell Letters - 15 February, 1968
Carol Maxwell Letters - March 9, 1997
My Billy (31 July 1991)
My Son (21 July 1993)
My Son (20 August 1993)

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