His work there led to ongoing research and interest in Japanese culture, and he began to learn Japanese. Army as a neurosurgeon from 1944 to 1946.įollowing World War II, Wells traveled to Hiroshima as part of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission to learn about radiation injuries and illness. and then working as a resident in the surgery department between 19. Warner Wells (1913-1991) was a Durham native and Duke alumnus, earning his B.A. The collection also includes several disbound folios of press clippings and comments following the volume's publication assorted stray correspondence from Hachiya photographs from Hiroshima, including the city center and victims, as well as of Hachiya's hospital some assorted Japanese publications about Hiroshima with manuscript English captions or other annotations and a scroll depicting the bombing, sent to Hachiya by his friend Shuka Takahashi in 1945. English translations initially titled as Hiroshima Atom Bomb Gossip later evolved to the 1955 galleys for Hiroshima Diary. Early versions are holograph copies prepared in Japanese by Michihiko Hachiya or his wife, Yaeko Hachiya. The bulk of the collection consists of holograph and typescript drafts of Hiroshima Diary and its earlier iterations.
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