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Therese Hluchovsky postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Therese Hluchovsky postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Preprinted postcard filled out by Hluchovsky, acknowledging that she had received rations from Howland via the American Relief Administration.
Date:
1919-1922
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Howard W. Elkinton letter to Samuel Mason
Title:
Howard W. Elkinton letter to Samuel Mason
Description:
Written to his father-in-law while Howard and his wife Katharine Wistar Elkinton were in France as relief workers. Discusses his and Kit's finances. Expects that their work at Èvres will be concluded by the spring. Discusses the possibility of more American relief workers being sent to France. Describes two fires that had taken place in the town, the second of which involved Moroccan French soldier casualties. Briefly comments on the negative French attitude towards the Moroccan soldiers; "the French say... 'they come to France to get rich and see they are burnt by their own avarice.' In dying from their suffering in the cold of a French winter and the fact that they are 'forced labor' the remark is a bit cruel."
Date:
1918-12-07
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Howard W. Elkinton letter to Samuel Mason
Title:
Howard W. Elkinton letter to Samuel Mason
Description:
Written to his father-in-law while Elkinton and his wife Katharine Wistar Elkinton were in France as relief workers. Discusses logistics of his and Kit's U.S. bank accounts. Describes his relief work activities, especially accounting. Explains the levels of French administrative districts and discusses the nearby town of Triaucourt; quotes at length from a book about the town's invasion and occupation by the Germans.
Date:
1919-02-02
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter to her aunt
Title:
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter to her aunt
Description:
Written to her Aunty Nan while Elkinton was in France as a relief worker. Responds to Nan's letter. Discusses the possibility of bringing French villagers to the U.S. to work as domestic servants in response to rising U.S. wages. Says her husband Howard had reused military camouflage to keep the apiary warm. Discusses the involvement of several Quaker leaders in the reconstruction work, including Rufus Jones, Fat Scattergood, and Edward Grubb. Worries about the morals of relief workers after so much time "among the 'paysans.'"
Date:
1919-01-08
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter to her family
Title:
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter to her family
Description:
Addressed to her family while Elkinton was in France as a relief worker. Discusses getting to know Paris better. She and her husband Howard are preparing to leave France and hope to go to England, but still have red tape to overcome.
Date:
1919-02-02
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Katharine Evans Mason letter to Katharine Wistar Evans
Title:
Katharine Evans Mason letter to Katharine Wistar Evans
Description:
Written to her daughter Katharine Wistar Elkinton. Reports that Mason's son Samuel is going to the Verdun district, as well as Vincent Nicholson and Bennett Cooper. Shares news of various Friends, including Mason's daughter Evelyn's work with the Red Cross and suffragist Mrs. Lewis' repeated imprisonment for burning copies of President Wilson's messages on the White House grounds. Mentions that Mason's husband will be the next president of the Ozone. Other topics include politics, business, and the price of foodstuffs.
Date:
1919-01-14
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's mother while Waring was in France as a relief worker. Discusses her recent leisure activities and her plans for using the rest of her leave time. Also discusses relief work and international news.
Date:
1919-09-12
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's father while she was in France as a relief worker. Describes the room where she is living. Discusses her work and current events.
Date:
1919-09-28
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "Dear Folks;" written while Waring was in France as a relief worker. Describes Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, including the military parade. Discusses her relief work, her fellow workers, and the proceedings of a relief conference she participated in.
Date:
1919-07-28
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's father while she was in France as a relief worker. Expresses disappointment over her cancelled vacation to England and talks about her personal correspondence.
Date:
1919-08-11
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's father while she was in France as a relief worker. Discusses the escape of German prisoners from prison camps in the area and offers some political insight. Shares news of her leisure activities and relief work, including a recent fire at her relief station and an upcoming reunion of relief workers.
Date:
1919-09-15
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "dear Pals;" written while Waring was in France as a relief worker. Reports on accepting an assignment from the American Friends Service Committee assessing postwar conditions in Austria. Details her concluding relief activities in France.
Date:
1919-10-05
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Description:
Written in June or July to Waring's mother while Waring was in France as a relief worker. Describes the abundance of blooming flowers in the area. Also discusses her personal finances, French labor strikes, and peace treaty terms with Germany. Briefly mentions acquiring a new office.
Date:
1919-06
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's father while she was in France as a relief worker. Primarily discusses her leave in Brittany. Other topics include the practice of exploding ammunitions near Waring's station in Grange, an English relief worker interested in attending agricultural college in the United States, and the French food supply.
Date:
1919-08-28
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Description:
Written to Waring's family while she was in France as a relief worker. Discusses postwar reconstruction, the use of German prisoners of war in reconstruction work, and the escape of some from local prison camps. Shares news of her relief work, including the withdrawal of fellow relief workers from France. Comments on the scarcity of food and cloth.
Date:
1919-09-21
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's mother while Waring was in France as a relief worker. Discusses her relief activities and emotional health; postwar reconstruction progress, including the use of German prisoners of war in reconstruction work; the availability and cost of produce, describing a violent incident at a food market; and the withdrawal of fellow relief workers and soldiers from France. Also comments on the death of Monsieur Guiot, losing a piece of luggage, and correspondence from her parents.
Date:
1919-08-18
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's mother while Waring was in Germany as a relief worker. Primarily discusses international politics relating to Germany, predicting bad outcomes if Germany is penalized too harshly in its defeat; also briefly discusses U.S. politics. Shares news related to relief work.
Date:
1921-05-30
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Description:
Written to Waring's family while she was in Germany as a relief worker. Discusses the Mission's administrative decisions about the future of an experimental commissionership. Shares her plans to return home in the early winter before acquiring a new relief position. Discusses German political conditions and reconstruction, including relations between France and Germany.
Date:
1921-06-08
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Written while Waring was surveying postwar humanitarian conditions in Vienna with fellow relief worker Vincent D. Nicholson. Reports her observations on health conditions (food availability, clinics and feeding stations with a focus on services for children), active aid organizations (including the American Relief Commission and the British Food Mission), economic conditions (the value of the Austrian krone, eradication of the middle class), and political conditions (state of the government, socialist influence).
Date:
1919-10-17
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "My dearly Beloveds;" written while Waring was in Europe as a relief worker. Discusses coordinating movement of food for relief work in Vienna, Prague, and Warsaw. Includes a rough draft of her Vienna report, which lays out the supplies most needed— coal, food, milk, clothing, medical supplies, etc.— and discusses methods of acquiring them. Provides descriptions of local living conditions and of people in need, especially children, elderly, and the sick. See mc1225_01_04_02 for a typed copy of these reports.
Date:
1919-11
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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