Philip N. Libby Letters

Collection

Identifier: SpC MS 0743-sc

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Letters from a soldier during World War I to his family. Included also are a newspaper clipping about Philip Libby being wounded in France, a letter from the Regimental Commander praising the work of the First Gas Regiment, and a letter written while he was working with the Donnacona Paper Company in Canada in 1921.

Dates

Creation: 1917-1921

Creator

Libby, Philip N., 1896-1943 (Person)

Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Use Restrictions

Information on literary rights available in the repository.

Biographical Note

Philip Nason Libby was born in 1896 in Gray, Maine and died in 1943. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1917 with a B.S. degree in forestry. During the summer of 1917 he worked for the Great Northern Paper Co. as forester and worked in northern Maine on the West Branch of the Penobscot River. He enlisted in the engineering corps the first of November 1917 and was assigned to Company A, 30th Engineers Gas and Flame. He served in Belgium, France, and Alsace and was slightly wounded while in France.