Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter to Howard W. Elkinton

Discusses her recent activities, including attending Abingdon Meeting and a picnic with her family and the Goodhues. Expresses her displeasure with being so removed from world sorrows and her desire to work abroad, presumably to aid in relief efforts. Asks "is it right... for people like thee & me to calmly prepare for an every-day peaceful life, as all our ancestors have before us- while all the time people are suffering and dieing around us?" Hopes Howard is doing well with Beth Satterthwaite and her family, and mentions her lack of fear when Aunt H warned her about Howard spending the weekend with another girl. Asks if Howard has read Charles Reade's "It Is Never Too Late to Mend."