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Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Description:
Written to Waring's family while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses working at the warehouse to arrange the distribution of clothing, an incoming shipment of U.S. corn, her living situation, and news of other relief workers.
Date:
1922-03-12
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"How Others are Helping" pamphlet
Title:
"How Others are Helping" pamphlet
Description:
A brief account of how men, women, and children are coping with the Russian Famine. Friends' Relief Committee pamphlet that lists actions taken by charitable Anglophone groups to aid victims of famine in Russia, and encourages charitable donations of clothing, food, and other supplies. All place names listed are anonymized.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Pen Pictures of Russian Village Life During the Famine
Title:
Pen Pictures of Russian Village Life During the Famine
Description:
Bulletin 56. "The sketches contained in this booklet were written by Quaker relief workers from personal experience on the Russian famine front. "In the Children's Homes" is by Jessica Smith; the remainder of the contents, by Robert W. Dunn. The setting is Buzuluk county of the province of Samara, eight hundred miles southeast of Moscow in the heart of the Volga grain belt- now the Volga famine zone. The conditions pictured are primarily those of 1922, but the famine still continues and cannot not now be terminated before the harvest of 1923, while it will be impossible to overcome its after effects for many years."
Date:
1923
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
K. Lander memorandum to Caroline G. Norment
Title:
K. Lander memorandum to Caroline G. Norment
Description:
Translated copy of a memorandum concerning the future work of all foreign relief organizations in Russia (including the American Friends Service Committee) written by K. Lander (Kārlis Landers), the acting representative plenipotentiary RSFSR. The Russian government has decided the acute stage of the famine is over; discusses how this will alter the operations of foreign relief organizations in terms of both funding and what work the organizations would do.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"Clothing the Famine Victims" pamphlet
Title:
"Clothing the Famine Victims" pamphlet
Description:
Friends' Relief Committee pamphlet calling for donations of new clothing and other supplies in response to the typhus outbreak in Russia that necessitated the destruction of clothing to prevent the spread of disease. Gives testimonials from aid workers. Lists types of clothing and linens needed.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Children's Home Thankful Address & Appeal
Title:
Children's Home Thankful Address & Appeal
Description:
Addressed "To the American Mission in Sorochinskaya From Childrens Home No. 59. Thankful Address" and "Friends of Society, Quakers. From Childrens Home No. 76. An Appeal." Thanks the Quakers for the relief supplies provided to the children, and state their ongoing need for more clothing, food, and other supplies.
Date:
1922-01-22
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College