Special Collections: Guide to the Henrietta Thompson Papers

Summary Information

Collection Title: Henrietta Thompson Papers
Collection Number: MS 498
Dates of Collection: 1942-1992 
Size of Collection: 3 boxes 

Biography

Henrietta Thompson was born in Maryland in 1913. She attended Barnard College in New York City for 2 years, was married in 1934 and lived with her husband in the Philippines for 3 years. They lived in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania until 1975 when they moved to Hancock Point, Maine. After living in Florida for several years she enrolled in graduate study in history at the University of Maine in 1989. She earned her M.A. in history in 1992 at the University of Maine in Orono. The title of her thesis was Walk a little faster: escape from Burma with General Stilwell in 1942.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of a student at the University of Maine. The papers include research material for her thesis for her M.A. Degree in History. Her thesis described her interviews of the members of a group of 114 men and women who were fleeing from Burma after the Japanese invasion of that country in January 1942. Included are correspondence, 32 audiotapes, notecards, research notes, and bibliographies.

Contents of Boxes

Univ MU Box 775

 

Box 775 f1	Address Book
Box 775 f2	Bibliography
Box 775 f3	British Military Group II
Box 775 f4	Burma prior to 1942
Box 775 f5	Complete war diary 11/10/79
Box 775 f6	Correspondence
Box 775 f7	Correspondence Sept. 1980
Box 775 f8	Correspondence: Paul Jones; Serrared; Janson; Alex Buchanan
Box 775 f9	Correspondence: St. Lwell, Eastbrook, Nobelhaft
Box 775 f10	Dear Sis,
Box 775 f11	Escape from Burma
Box 775 f12	I-H
Box 775 f13	Itineraries
Box 775 f14	The Log
Box 775 f15	Material (other sources)
Box 775 f16	Miscellaneous papers
Box 775 f16	Miscellaneous
Box 775 f17	Nurses
Box 775 f18	Oral Passport
Box 775 f19	Project correspondance 1970-1973
Box 775 f20	Treasures
Box 775 f21	Unknowns
Box 775 f22	Ioife Magazine Articles-1942
Box 775 f23	Walk a little faster: Escape from Burma with Gen. Stilwell in 1942 by H. Thompson

 

Univ. Mu  Box 776

 

Box 776 f1	Barton (Beaver)
Box 776 f2	Big Bawk
Box 776 f3	Belden
Box 776 f4	Bibliography
Box 776 f5	Belknap
Box 776 f6	Buck
Box 776 f7	Calvert
Box 776 f8	Casteng
Box 776 f9	Chambers
Box 776 f10	Chesley
Box 776 f11	Chow, F.
Box 776 f12	Chow, K.
Box 776 f13	Croft
Box 776 f14	Cummings
Box 776 f15	Cusick
Box 776 f16	Davies, Martin
Box 776 f17	Duncumb
Box 776 f18	Dorn
Box 776 f19	Dykes
Box 776 f20	Eldridge
Box 776 f21	Evans
Box 776 f22	F.A.U.
Box 776 f23	Ferris
Box 776 f24	Fox, Alan
Box 776 f25	Geren
Box 776 f26	Geren, Paul
Box 776 f27	Gish, Paul
Box 776 f28	Grant, Ken
Box 776 f29	MA Graung
Box 776 f30	Grindlay, Betty
Box 776 f31	Haigh, W.D.
Box 776 f32	HLA sein
Box 776 f33	Holcombe
Box 776 f34	Janes
Box 776 f35	Johnson, Ruby T.
Box 776 f36	Jones, Paul
Box 776 f37	Kaw, Malang
Box 776 f38	Khin, Ohn
Box 776 f39	Kluger, Richard
Box 776 f40	KOI
Box 776 f41	Labanqlu
Box 776 f42	Lee, Tommy C.
Box 776 f43	Lothrop, Alan
Box 776 f44	McCabe
Box 776 f45	Maurer
Box 776 f46	Moonie
Box 776 f47	Nicholas, Etal
Box 776 f48	Novack
Box 776 f49	O’Hara
Box 776 f50	Owen
Box 776 f51	Parsons, George
Box 776 f52	Po Esther
Box 776 f53	Shein, Tun
Box 776 f54	Shwe, Than (Po Nee)
Box 776 f55	Short
Box 776 f56	Sibert
Box 776 f57	Singh, Dara- misc.
Box 776 f58	Tseng
Box 776 f59	Taylor Jr., Carl
Box 776 f60	Tennant, Peter
Box 776 f61	Col.Tin Q’ Hi
Box 776 f62	Williams-Janes-Grindlay-diaries-Geren
Box 776 f63	Williams, Robert
Box 776 f64	Col.Yen
Box 776 f65	Young, Richard

 

Univ. MU Box 777

 

Box 777 f1	audio tapes
Box 777 f2	audio tapes
Box 777 f3	audio tapes

 

 

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Special Collections Staff: spc@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 01/17/2013