Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Elvera L. Williams, married to James D. Williams, discusses her foreign living experiences with the IIAA as a wife, mother, and as a woman in the 1940's and '50's. In Brazil and the Amazon Valley: living conditions, language problems, the Brazilian people, electricity, shopping, weather and climate, housing and housekeeping, marketing, insects and rodents, and recreation. In Mexico: culture shock, housekeeping and marketing, children, Mexicans,...