WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST. LOUIS
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Henry Tomas donated the Henry Tomas Papers in 1988.
Henry Tomas was born in Russia in 1919. He moved to Germany to pursue a college education. There he met and married his wife Gisela in 1949; their son Helmut was born the previous year. The family immigrated to the United States and settled in Detroit in the 1950s. In the 1960s Henry moved to St. Louis, his wife and son joined him later. Henry Tomas was a Russian immigrant who spoke fluent Russian, German and Lithuanian. He worked professionally as a translator for the United States. In 1975, he wrote Lietuviskasis Pamarys ( The Lithuanian Seashore), a collection of Lithuanian memoirs.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Henry Tomas Papers include correspondence, sheet music, collections of stamps and postcards and photographs. It also contains a series of newspaper clippings in Lithuanian.
FOLDER LIST
Box 1
Series 1 – Correspondence, 1956-1985 , Folders 1 – 24
1. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1956-1973
2. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1974-1975
3. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1976-1978
4. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1979
5. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1980-1981
6. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1982
7. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1983
8. Letters Between Henry, Gisela and Helmut Tomas, English and German, 1984-1985
9. Letters to Gisela Tomas, German, 1964-1985
10. Letters to Gisela Tomas, German, 1967-1984
11. Letters to Gisela Tomas, German, 1960-1979
12. Letters to Gisela Tomas, German, 1969-1985
13. Letters to Helmut Tomas, 1967-1971
14. Letters to Helmut Tomas, 1967-1985
15. Letters to Helmut Tomas, 1971-1976
16. Letters to Helmut Tomas, 1967-1984
17. Letters to Helmut Tomas, 1965-1973
Box 2
18. Letters to Helmut Tomas, German, 1967-1970
19. Letters to Helmut Tomas, German, 1962-1969
20. Letters to Henry Tomas, English and German, 1961-1983
21. Letters to Henry Tomas, Lithuanian, 1977-1983
22. Letters to Henry Tomas, Lithuanian, 1972-1985
23. Letters to Petras Tvaroras, Lithuanian, 1968-1970
24. Family Documents, 1959-1975 (Including Helmut’s Passport)
Series 2 – Published Media, Folders 25 – 31
25. Book: Lietuviskasis Pamarys ( The Lithuanian Seashore) by Henry
Tomas
26. Blank Postcards
27. Sheet Music
28. Sheet Music
29. Sheet Music
30. Stamp Collection
31. Stamp Collection, First Issues
Series 3 – Photographs, Folder 32
32. Photographs 810.1-810.90
Series 4 – Newspaper Clippings, 1950-1982, Boxes 3-5
Box 3
Scrapbooks with Lithuanian Newspaper Clippings, 1950-1982 (15 Volumes)
Box 4
Scrapbooks with Lithuanian Newspaper Clippings, 1950-1982 (14 Volumes)
Box 5
Scrapbooks with Lithuanian Newspaper Clippings, 1950-1982 (14 Volumes)