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Letter from Shidzuyo Yasui to Tsuyoshi, Miki, and Joanie Yasui

 Digital Record
Identifier: Mss2949_B139F21_003

Summary

Digitized item from the Yasui Brothers business records, Mss 2949. The item, written in a pre-World War II Japanese script, is a letter from Shidzuyo Yasui to Tsuyoshi, Miki, and Joanie Yasui, dated 25 April. In the letter Shidzuyo provides updates about the family, including Minoru going to Minidoka and Shu's need to submit paperwork to get an extension from the military so that he can complete his medical studies. She then discusses the sale of the Mosier field to Harry Wilson and the stipulations to plant a certain number of fruit trees if his initial payment is too low. She also discusses asking the War Relocation Authority to find someone else to manage the house and harvesting if the sale does not go through. She closes by saying she sent Yuka's outgrown kimono for Joanie and handkerchiefs for Tsuyoshi. The letter has been translated into English and modern Japanese.