Box 1

Scope and Contents This series contains 892 items, most of them sent by Karl Shapiro to Evalyn Katz Shapiro; the earliest, to Evalyn from Shapiro, is dated March 26, 1941, and the last, from Shapiro to his daughter Elizabeth, October 15, 1967. The majority of the correspondence was written between 1941 and 1945, the period during which Karl Shapiro served in the United States Army. As a clerk for the Army Medical Corps, Shapiro had easy access to a typewriter, and, therefore, much of the correspondence is...