Scope and Contents note From the Series: Clayton Lane, a commercial attaché with the United States Embassy, married Dorothy Bent (daughter of George P. and Clara Ames Wingate Bent) and the couple lived in many different places in the first half of the 20th century. Dorothy wrote prolifically to her mother, father, and sister Muriel about her experiences, first in Vienna (1927-1928), then Warsaw (1928-1935), Johannesburg (1938-1941), and then in New Delhi, Cairo, and Beirut (1944-1947). Dorothy describes the culture of being the...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Clayton Lane, a commercial attaché with the United States Embassy, married Dorothy Bent (daughter of George P. and Clara Ames Wingate Bent) and the couple lived in many different places in the first half of the 20th century. Dorothy wrote prolifically to her mother, father, and sister Muriel about her experiences, first in Vienna (1927-1928), then Warsaw (1928-1935), Johannesburg (1938-1941), and then in New Delhi, Cairo, and Beirut (1944-1947). Dorothy describes the culture of being the...