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Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter fragment
Title:
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter fragment
Description:
Fragment; likely addressed to her family. Written while Elkinton was in France as a relief worker. Discusses her time in Paris, including a blackout due to enemy planes, an upcoming picnic with Agnes Nicholson, going to an American dentist, and seeing crowds at the Gare du Nord station. Discusses her work assignment and those of various individuals, mentioning a Quaker meeting of relief workers. Mentions Howard growing a moustache.
Date:
1917-07
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter fragments
Title:
Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter fragments
Description:
Composed of fragments from two or more letters; some letter fragments are addressed to her brother Samuel Mason. Discusses relief work, including the activism of British Quakers named Leeds and Scot, and mentions possible friction between U.S. & British Quaker relief workers. Describes shopping & leisure time in Paris.
Date:
1917
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 "Dearest Ones" while Elkinton was in France as a relief worker. Back in Sermaize, Elkinton mentions a new position she has accepted teaching a class of small boys. Describes the recent crowding of relief workers at the equipe and the visitors they have had, including a bishop from Detroit and a famous tuberculosis doctor. Has been in closer quarters with her English colleagues, and says that "I am rapidly losing my prejudice toward the Islanders as I come to know these representatives better." Discusses plans to go to Paris with her husband Howard.
Date:
1917-10-15
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 report
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring report
Description:
Report on the food relief effort in Russia by Field Director Beulah Hurley Waring. Accompanied by a note saying "On resuming work in Sorochinskaya in May after a flair in typhus and two weeks exile thereafter in Moscow." See mc1225_02_01_55 for a typed version of this letter. Describes her trip to Moscow. Reports on the number of relief workers, feeding statistics, transportation of food, agricultural conditions, fall and winter feeding plans, medical efforts against epidemic diseases, and improvements wrought by relief efforts. Comments that the government's plan to employ the locals may be stymied by lack of materials for them to work with. Discusses a nearby area in the Bashkir Republic that been severely affected by the famine. Reflects on her time working in Russia and plans to return home soon.
Date:
1922-07-15
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"The Harvest of Grass" essay
Title:
"The Harvest of Grass" essay
Description:
Written by Robert W. Dunn while in Russia as a relief worker; likely dated 1922. Reports on the famine conditions in Alexeyevka and the dependence on Quaker aid.
Date:
1921 - 1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "Dear Friends" while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses the famine relief efforts in Buzuluk, including services for children and the need for supplies beyond food—clothes, linens, soap—to prevent disease. Worries that aiding orphanages will lead to more children being abandoned there. Discusses the local environment and people.
Date:
1922-04-08
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
"A Tartar Church" essay
Title:
"A Tartar Church" essay
Description:
Written while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker; likely dated 1922. Describes visiting a Tatar mosque and interacting with its community members. Considers spiritual commonalities between people of different religions.
Date:
1921 - 1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"From a Car Window" essay
Title:
"From a Car Window" essay
Description:
Written by Robert W. Dunn while in Russia as a relief worker. Reports that the misleading views from train rail lines do not accurately represent the severity of rural famine conditions and the need for continued aid.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"Driftwood" essay
Title:
"Driftwood" essay
Description:
Written while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker; likely dated 1922. Recounts the incident of a starving man visiting the Quaker relief office in search of food and work.
Date:
1921 - 1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Friends International Service American Unit report
Title:
Friends International Service American Unit report
Description:
Report on the food relief effort in Russia by Field Director Beulah Hurley Waring. See mc1225_02_01_30 for a handwritten version of this letter. Describes her trip to Moscow. Reports on the number of relief workers, feeding statistics, transportation of food, agricultural conditions, fall and winter feeding plans, medical efforts against epidemic diseases, and improvements wrought by relief efforts. Comments that the government's plan to employ the locals may be stymied by lack of materials for them to work with. Discusses a nearby area in the Bashkir Republic that been severely affected by the famine. Reflects on her time working in Russia and plans to return home soon.
Date:
1922-07-15
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
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "Dear Friends" while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses the ongoing famine and need for continued relief efforts, but with work from local recipients in return. Says that the famine will continue because of crop failures caused by summer drought, despite government statements otherwise. Discusses food relief plans and accomplishments, medical assistance efforts, the need for agricultural equipment and supplies, her group's work with British Friends, and her plans to return home.
Date:
1922-09-15
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"The Gleaners" essay
Title:
"The Gleaners" essay
Description:
Written by Robert W. Dunn while in Russia as a relief worker; likely dated 1922. Describes the starving conditions of Russian peasants affected by the famine and the critical role of Quaker food relief efforts in their survival.
Date:
1921 - 1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Francis R. Bacon letter to Beulah Hurley Waring
Title:
Francis R. Bacon letter to Beulah Hurley Waring
Description:
Passes on unfavorable reports of the Soviet government's intentions from Dr. Thomas H. Dickenson, a Quaker who had been traveling in Russia. Expresses anxieties over the fate of A.R.A. famine relief work if its head Herbert Hoover should be convinced of the Soviet regime's unsoundness.
Date:
1922-01-10
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
American Friends Service Committee relief work agreement proposal
Title:
American Friends Service Committee relief work agreement proposal
Description:
Agreement between the Society of Friends' American Friends Service Committee and the Soviet government over the Society's continued relief work in Russia. Possibly written by the American Friends Service Committee.
Date:
1922-09-18
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
American Friends Service Committee meeting report fragment
Title:
American Friends Service Committee meeting report fragment
Description:
Fragment. Discusses plans for keeping AFSC workers who have returned from Europe in touch with each other, with Beulah Hurley Waring as a corresponding secretary for that purpose.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Wilbur K. Thomas letter to Beulah Hurley Waring
Title:
Wilbur K. Thomas letter to Beulah Hurley Waring
Description:
Written to Waring by the Executive Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Thanks Waring for her contribution to the A.F.S.C. Discusses the possibility of her returning to Russia to do more relief work, and says that she will be able to accomplish most if she "goes as a Friend with a deep concern . . . actuated by real spiritual motives."
Date:
1925-04-20
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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