Josephine Bond Temple was born in Texarkana, Arkansas on December 21, 1918, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Bond. She met Thomas Lewis Latané Temple III, who went by Latané, in 1938 and they married February 17, 1939. This collection primarily consists of correspondence from Latané Temple to his wife during his service in World War II, as well as photographs of members of the Bond family and letters from their children.