The Fulstone family papers from Santo Tomas Internment Camp were given by Debera Fulstone Spear, whose grandfather Marion Albion "Larry" Fulstone, step-grandmother Elizabeth Wimbish Hancock Fulstone, father Jack Wayne Fulstone, and half-uncle Gerald "Gerry" Hancock Fulstone were all interned in the Santo Tomás Internment Camp in the Philippines during World War II. Santo Tomás, located in Manila, was an internment camp set up on the grounds of the University of Santo Tomás and used by the Japanese to house enemy civilians from January 1942 through February 1945. There were several thousand internees; the population fluctuated, as some were transferred to other camps or sent back to their home countries, but over the course of the war there were about 7,000 people who lived at some point in the camp. Most were American, but the internee population also included citizens of the Philippines, Canada, England, Australia, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, China, and Burma. As the war and the internees' detainment continued, sanitation, severe food shortages, and consequently disease became growing problems. Approximately 390 people died in Santo Tomás between January 1942 and March 1945. The camp was liberated by American forces in early February 1945, releasing 3,785 internees. Much of the correspondence is addressed to Marion Fulstone's mother, Cora Mae Fagan Fulstone Cagnacci, in response to her inquiries about her son. One such letter (addressed to Mrs. A. L. Cagnacci) dated April 18, 1945 congratulates her on her son's safe return from the Philippines.