April 4th, 1917

Dear Miss Reubell,

Please excuse my having to dictate this letter. I got back
late last night after a journey that I shall never forget. The
country we went through is so ravaged that one cannot even get
a piece of bread at Noyon or any of the other towns that are
undestroyed; the Germans have taken literally everything.

As many refugees from the ruined villages have taken
refuge at Ham I asked the "Maire" to distribute the 1.000 francs
you so kindly sent me; but he handed me back the money and
said: "Money has no value here, there is nothing to buy. Please
take this back to Paris and ask the lady who was kind enough
to give it to you to send us clothes as quickly as possible."
I have therefore brought the money back, and have also brought
the small parcel of clothing you sent me, as I think it would
be better to put it with the other things you may send and
get the Clearing House to deliver the whole. The confusion and
excitement at all these places are so great that a small parcel
handed to an agitated "fonctionnaire" seemed to me likely to be
mislaid. I enclose the list of things the "Maire" asked for
and I will send you back your money tomorrow, and will come and
see you as soon as I can.

Yours affectionately

F.

24 Mars 1917

Monsieur,

J'apprends par M. Rodier que vous avez l'impression que les dons envoyés par Mademoiselle Gross au prisonnier Benzaquen Sadia ne lui sont pas parvenus. Afin d'élaircir la question je vous envoie la copie de la lettre que Mademoiselle Gross vient de recevoir dernièrement de Benzaquen Sadia.

Je vous serais très obligée de me faire savoir s'il y a eu erreur de date dans vos renseignements, ou bien quelle est l'origine du malantendu?

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salutations distinguées.

Monsieur Henri Lambert
13, rue Spontini
E.V.

7 Avril 1917

Monsieur,

Je m'excuse de ne pas vous avoir
écrit plus tôt mais immédiatement après
votre visite j'ai été envoyé.eau front
pour quelques jours, et depuis mon retour
j'ai eu un grand surcroît de travail.

Quant au choix d'un Directeur
Général, les travaux d'installation de nos
Sanatoria ayant été tellement retardés par
le manque de main d'oeuvre, il nous a paru
préférable de renoncer pour le moment à
nous occuper de cette question.

Je m'excuse de nouveau du retard
bien involontaire que j'ai mis à vous ré-
pondre, et vous prie de croire, Monsieur,
à l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

Monsieur le Vicomte de Prévoisin
6, rue du Docteur Rayer
Caen. Calvados.

26 Avril 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre et qu'elle prend note de votre demande d'emploi. Pour le moment, Madame Wharton ne cherche pas de Directrice d'hôpital.

Veuillez recevoir, Madame, mes salutations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Madame Garnier
Directrice.
Chateau de Villebon
Villebon, par Palaiseau.

27 Avril 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre du 24 Avril.

Elle a déjà envoyé la demande de votre protégé au "Clearing House" et elle espère beaucoup qu'on donnera satisfaction à votre demande.

Veuillez agréer, Mademoiselle, mes salutations les plus distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Mademoiselle Barbet de Veaux
Vitry sur Seine.

April 27th, 1917

Dear Mr. Miller,

This seems a terribly sad case, and
as I know Mademoiselle de Vaux I think it
is safe to say that the poor man in question
is worthy of interest, apart from his
terrible mutilation, and I should be very
much obliged if the Clearing House could see
its way to helping him.

I have not forgotten your promise
to go and see Mr. Roosevelt with me some
day, and mean to remind you of it as soon
as I have a little more time.

Yours very sincerely

Monsieur H.W.Miller
5, rue François Ier.
E.V.

28 Avril 1917

Mademoiselle,

Je m'excuse d'être obligée de vous dicter ces quelques
mots, mais je suis un peu souffrante.

Croyez bien que nous n'avons pas oublié le projet de
faire faire des petites statuettes de saints dont je vous ai
parlé. Malheureusement nous avons été, Madame Tyler et moi,
tellement débordées par l'organisation de secours à donner aux
réfugiés des régions évacuées qu'il nous a été impossible de
nous occuper de la question. Maintenant quasquous sommes un
peu moins prises nous voudrions bien l'étudier avec vous, et
je viens vous demander si vous pourriez aller voir Madame
Tyler lundi prochain entre 9 et 10 heures, chez elle, 21, Quai
de Bourbon. Madame Tyler a plusieurs petites statuettes inté-
ressantes à vous montrer, et je crois qu'en causant avec elle
vous comprendre mieux l'idée que j'ai essayée de vous exposer
il y a quelques mois.

Si toutefois il vous était impossible d'aller chez l'une
Tyler lundi prochain, veuillez avoir la bonté de lui envoyer
un pneumatique et lui dire quel jour vous pourriez y aller.
Entre 9 et 10 heures vous serez toujours à peu près sûre de la
trouver, mais comme elle est très occupée, elle voudrait être
prévenue d'avance.

Croyez, je vous prie, Mademoiselle, à mes sentiments
très distingués.

Mademoiselle Périgois
2, rue Villebois Mareuil
B.V.

28 Avril 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous remettre
inclus la lettre que vous lui avez adressée,
et elle me charge de vous dire qu'elle fera
passer la copie de cette dernière à l'Oeuvre
des Prisonniers de Guerre, avec l'espoir
qu'on pourra faire quelque chose pour votre
protégé.

Veuillez agréer, Mademoiselle, mes
salutations distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Mademoiselle Bouvier
84, rue de Buzenval
E.V.

April 30th, 1917

Dear Elisina,

Please excuse my dictating this note. I have just seen Walter Berry; he has telegraphed to Mr. Lopp to arrange to send to Paris everything that Stanton buys for us.

Unfortunately I did not have Stanton's address in Bordeaux, so will you please wire him to say Mr. Lopp and tell him that Mr. Berry has given the order.

Mr. and Mrs. Serruys are coming to tea on Saturday at 5.30, and I hope you and Royall will be able to come.

A demain at 2.15 at Mrs. Tuck's.

Yours affectionately

Ier Mai 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton vous prie de l'excuser de ne pas vous écrire elle-même, mais elle vient d'avoir un coup de téléphone de Me Boccon-Gibod au sujet de la reconnaissance d'utilité publique de l'Œuvre des Tuberculeux de la Guerre. Le Ministère de l'Intérieur a demandé quelques détails supplémentaires sur le domaine de Mardor, et si vous pouviez recevoir un instant Me Boccon-Gibod, ou son premier clerc, M. Ponroy, Madame Wharton croit qu'elle faciliterait le règlement de la question.

Vous n'avez qu'à donner un coup de téléphone à Me Boccon-Gibod, 22, rue Cambon, (Gutenberg II-23) pour lui fixer une heure dans l'après-midi. Le matin il est toujours retenu à son étude.

Madame Wharton a un rendez-vous qui l'oblige à sortir immédiatement et elle n'a pas voulu tarder à vous envoyer ce mot.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes salutations les plus distinguées.

Mme la Comtesse de Béarn
Hôtel Ritz
M.V.

May 2nd 1917

Dear Alice,

We buy very good shoes for refugees from a wholesale house, who might probably not be willing to sell to you; but we can wish me to give an order for you you need only telep telephone to Mademoiselle Landormy, at my Ouvroir, 254, Boulevard St-Germain, (Fleurus 05-76) and she will give the order at once.

For stout shoes for children we pay from 8.00 francs upwards according to age; for women 13.50 francs, and for men from 17 to 18.00 francs.

Yours affectionately

P.S. - Mlle Landormy has just telephoned me that she is going to the shoe factory herself this afternoon to buy a big supply of shoes for our refugee children. If you will telephone your order to her before 3 o'clock, she will pick out the shoes herself and get you the best terms she can.

May 4th, 1917

Dear Mr. Biddle,

I am so sorry that you are suffering
from your eyes.

I regret not to be able to tell you
how to find out about the family you wish
me to enquire about. I believe the list
of repatriated families is kept at Genova,
and I will try to find out and to let you
know.

Meanwhile, will you kindly ask your
secretary to write out more clearly the name
of the person in question, as I cannot
read it; I should also like to know the
Christian name of her husband which is not
given.

You may be sure I shall do all I can
to help you to find this family.

Yours very sincerely

Mr.S.F.Biddle
Hotel de Paris
Monte-Carlo.

5 Mai 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous demander s'il vous serait possible de la masser pendant une demie-heure tous les matins à 8.30 heures, pendant deux ou trois semaines.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes salutations distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton

Madame Juselius
41, Avenue Marceau
B.V.

May 5th, 1917

Dear Sally,

Your good letter of April 17th has just come and as I do
not want to delay telling you of its safe arrival I am dictating
this line in haste.

First of all, let us embrace on the glorious fact that we
can now hold up our heads with the civilized nations of the world.
If you could hear the note of genuine enthusiasm in every French
voice when our country is spoken of it would do you good. It has
made me twenty years younger, for in addition to the satisfaction
of being in the war is the deeper one of feeling that so far our
government has taken the right measures and is taking them prompt-
ly and generously.

I am so glad you liked "Les Impressions de Notre Prère le
Poilu". It is the one perfect book that the war has produced so
far. Yes, I got your volume of "New Nursery Rimes" months ago,
and wrote to thank you for it; but my letter must have been lost
like your latter one.

I wish I could write more, but the work is terribly heavy
and our anxiety about coal and transportation for all the houses
of the Hostels and the Tuberculous War-Victims has added tremen-
dously to the burden. I am busy from morning till night which,
as you say, is the best thing that could happen to one now; but I
am on the edge of needing a real rest and shall probably go off
to Fontainebleau before long.

I suppose Lily has long since arrived safely. She will
have had much to tell you of all she saw and heard during her
work here.

I am so sorry, dear Sally, that you have been so poorly,
but I hope that once you are in your new house, and the horrors
of moving are over, you will feel stronger. I suppose you will
go to Ashfield for the summer and grow as many potatoes as possible
for the Allies. We need them all!

Thank you again for your letter. Much love to both you and
Lily.

Yours affectionately

7 Mai 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton vous prie de l'excuser si elle ne répond pas elle-même à votre lettre. Elle est extrêmement fatiguée depuis un mois et son médecin lui a ordonné de prendre un repos de quelques semaines.

Il lui est malheureusement impossible de recevoir des visites en ce moment-ci, mais elle vous prie de bien vouloir lui écrire de quoi vous désirez l'entretenir, et elle répondra immédiatement à votre lettre.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Madame la Marquise d'Espinay
St-Luc
93, rue de Lille
Paris.

7 Mai 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous envoyer tous ses remerciements pour votre lettre du 6 courant, et elle regrette beaucoup que vous n'ayez pas trouvé de logement pour les jeunes filles qui lui ont été recommandées.

Les personnes en question sont sans ressource et ne peuvent naturellement pas payer 8 frs. par jour de pension, et la dame charitable qui voulait les envoyer à Arromanches ne peut pas assumer une charge si lourde.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Madame Tadey
Villa Saillet
Arromanches.

8 Mai 1917

Monsieur,

Ayant su que vous aviez livré du charbon Cardiff à 160 frs. à ma voisine, Madame Certes, je viens vous demander si vous ne pourriez pas me faire livrer dans les mêmes conditions (160 frs. la tonne) 2.000 kilos de Cardiff.

Comme je suis depuis huit ans la locataire de Madame Certes et de sa belle-soeur, j'espère que vous voudrez bien me considérer comme une cliente intéressante. Je serai très heureuse de continuer à vous donner mes futures commandes si vous pouvez m'obliger en ce moment-ci.

Je crois qu'il serait bon de charger la charretier qui a livré le charbon à Madame Certes de la livraison de ma commande, puisqu'il connaît la disposition des caves.

Je vous prie de me faire parvenir votre réponse le plus tôt possible.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salutations empressées.

Monsieur Fernand Duprilot
I, rue Bailly
Paris.

Copie de la note incluse dans la lettre.

Kindly send information as to Society for French War
Orphans, for transmission to U.S.A. to:

Mr. F.W.Zinn
Observateur
Escadrille F.24
Secteur Postal 155

(If any pamphlets please send?)

8 Mai 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous
informer que vous la trouverez demain
mercredi à son Ouvroir à partir de midi.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salu-
tations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

9 Mai 1917

Madame,

Je vous prie de m'excuser si je suis obligée de dicter ces
quelques mots au lieu de vous écrire moi-même.

Madame Borel m'a transmis la lettre dans laquelle vous lui rendez compte de l'enquête que vous avez eu la bonté de faire pour moi au sujet du Capitaine Cousin et de sa famille, et je tiens à vous exprimer ma vive reconnaissance pour le service que vous m'avez rendu.

Le cas du Capitaine Cousin ne rentre pas dans la catégorie des réfugiés dont mon Oeuvre s'occupe, mais comme il paraît très intéressant, j'espère pouvoir réunir quelques secours, seulement il faudrait que je sache quelle est la meilleure manière de venir en aide à cette famille, et la lettre de Madame Cousin ne donne aucune indication sur ce point. Je ne crois pas pouvoir obtenir des secours permanents, mais peut-être obtiendrai-je de quelques personnes bienveillantes un secours temporaire en argent ou en vêtements, ou les deux; et je pense que l'Oeuvre du "Bien-Etre du Prisonnier" consentira à faire un envoi au Capitaine Cousin si vous voulez bien me faire dire de quoi il a besoin.

Je m'excuse de vous déranger de nouveau, mais j'espère
que vous ne m'en voudrez pas puisque je vois que le cas du
Capitaine Cousin vous a tellement intéressé.

Veuillez croire, Monsieur, à l'assurance de mes senti-
ments les plus distingués.

Monsieur G.Bellivet.

9 Mai 1917

Madame,

Je vous prie de m'excuser si je suis
obligée de dicter cette lettre au lieu
de vous écrire moi-même.

Votre lettre a en effet été portée
Boulevard St-Germain par Mlle Drevelle;
je m'excuse de l'avoir oublié quand ma
secrétaire vous a écrit au sujet de cette
jeune fille. Aucune réponse n'avait été
envoyée à cette lettre par notre Comité
parce que nous n'avions aucune vacance
aux Maisons de Convalescence.

C'est par erreur que le nom de Mlle
Drevelle a été mis sur la liste des candi-
dates, puisqu'elle ne portait aucune recom-
mandation de moi ni de Mme Tyler; mais puis-
que vous me dites que c'est est intéressant
le Comité maintient son nom sur la liste.
Malheureusement il m'est impossible de vous
dire quand il y aura une vacance.

Croyez, je vous prie, Madame, à mes
sentiments très distingués.

Madame Steeg
39, Bd du Port Royal
E.V.

10 Mai 1917

Chère Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle croit que vous pouvez très bien revenir à Paris sans crainte pour votre santé et qu'elle pense que vous serez contente de retourner à l'Ouvroir.

Madame Wharton s'occupe en ce moment-ci de vous trouver une remplacante et comme elle a plusieurs personnes en vue, elle pense que vous pourrez rentrer à Paris le samedi 19 Mai. Elle vous prie de mettre tout soigneusement en ordre avant votre départ, et surtout de préparer un inventaire complet pour remettre à la personne qui doit vous succéder.

Veuillez croire, Mademoiselle, à l'assurance de mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Mademoiselle M. Noret
Groslay.

May 2nd 1917

Dear Mr. Moore,

I resigned from the "Coordination des
Secours Volontaires" over a year ago and
have not joined the reorganized Committee,
therefore I cannot well ask them for a heater
for the douches at Commercy. But I imagine
the organization is better than it was, and
no doubt they would give you a heater if
you applied on behalf of Madame Bizot.

I am sorry not to be able to help you,
but I did not feel satisfied with the
management of the Oeuvre when I resigned and
therefore declined to be associated with it
any longer.

Yours very sincerely

Monsieur B.B.Moore
Service de Distribution
Américaine
20, rue Troyon
E.V. XVIIe

SERVICE DE DISTRIBUTION AMÉRICAINE

SOCIÉTÉ FONCTIONNANT

SOUS LA DIRECTION DU SERVICE DE SANTÉ

RUSSELL GREELEY, DIRECTEUR
GEOFFREY DODGE, SECRÉTAIRE

20, RUE TROYON
PARIS (XVII°)

TÉLÉPHONE : WAGRAM 52-92

Paris, MAY 1st 1917.

Mrs. WHARTON,
53, rue de Varennes,

PARIS.

Dear Mrs. Wharton,

I am sorry to add another to the numerous
letters which I know you receive, but cannot avoid doing so.
Mr. Beadel and Mr. Gibert have just returned from a trip
among the hospitals in the army zone. While at Commercy, Ma-
dame Bizot, Directrice de l'oeuvre "La Chemise du Combattant",
told them that the heater for the douches, kindly given by the
"Coordination des Secours Volontaires" was entirely worn out, so
that it is at present impossible to use the douches. The rest
of the apparatus is in perfect condition. Madame Bizot said
that they are in great need of a new heater. We therefore
write to inquire whether, by any chance, the "Coordination des
Secours Volontaires" cares to replace the heater in question.
If not, would it be possible to let us know where the apparatus
was bought in order that we may buy a heater to send in place
of the one worn out? . Mr. Beadel when at Commercy looked at
the apparatus and tried to find the name of the maker, but
could not do so.

May 12th, 1917

Dear Captain Kipling,

I write in the hope that you will be able to help our joint Committees of the "American Hostels for Refugees", the "Tuberculeux de La Guerre" and the "Enfants des Flandres" to find a way out of the motor difficulties which confront us.

As I told you the other day these three organizations have nineteen houses, in Paris, in the environs, in Normandy and in Burgundy, and the transportation crisis has made it necessary for us to place our motor service on a larger basis than we had foreseen.

At present, the American Hostels and the Enfants des Flandres have one motor-lorry, one camionnette and one landaulet, and probably this number will not be increased.

The Oeuvre des Tuberculeux de la Guerre has a two-ton-White camion, a camionnette and a small touring-car; but we are fitting up two large sanatoria in Burgundy and expect to establish a third near Paris, and possibly a fourth in Touraine. Eventually, therefore, we shall have probably three or four one-ton-lorries, the same number of small camionnettes, for carrying the patients or supplies from the station to the sanatorium, and possibly a couple of touring-cars.

If you think the American Ambulance Committee would consider this formation important enough to take it over as one of their sections, it would of course be a great advantage to us from all points of view, and I hope you will feel disposed to make the suggestion in our behalf. It seems to me that at this stage of the war such organizations as ours can do infinitely greater service by combining their work wherever it is possible to do so.

Thanking you again for your interest in the plan,

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

Captain Kipling.

May 12th 1917

Dear Sirs,

I have just received through the
Société Générale of Paris the sum of
566 frs., which has been sent through
your firm.

The Société Générale does not
know the name of the donor or the object
of the gift, and I should be much obligé
if you would kindly inform me as soon as
possible from whom the money comes and
for which of my charities it is intended?

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Messrs. Brown, Brothers
New-York.

12 Mai 1917

Monsieur,

Monsieur del Harmol n'a remis hier la
lettre dans laquelle vous lui signalez le
was de Madame Deneubourg.

Malheureusement cette personne ne
rentre pas dans la catégorie des réfugiés
secourus par l'Accueil Franco-Américain,
mais comme la situation de Mme Deneubourg -para-
paraît particulièrement triste, je viens vous
prier d'accepter pour elle un don mensuel de
25 frs. que je prendrai sur une petite caisse
de secours constituée par des amis Américains.

Je ne pourrai donner ce secours que
pendant six mois, mais peut-être que d'ici
là la situation de Mme Deneubourg se sera
améliorée. Je fais envoyer un mandat au-
jourd'hui même à Madame Deneubourg.

Croyez, je vous prie, Monsieur, à
mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Monsieur E. Védier
80, rue de Grenelle
E.V.

12 Mai 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'elle voudrait retenir pour le Ier Juillet le même appartement qu'elle a occupé l'été dernier au troisième étage; Mme Wharton croit que c'était le 88-89. Ekle vous prie de réserver une bonne chambre pour sa femme de chambre, aussi près que possible de la sienne.

Madame Wharton ira peut-être passer quelques jours à Fontainebleau dans 8 jours, et elle préférerait à cette saison avoir un appartement donnant sur le parc. Elle vous prie de répondre le plus tôt possible en lui disant ce que vous pourriez lui donner pour le 25 Mai.

Veuillez croire, Monsieur, à l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingués.

May 19th, 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton thanks you for your kind note, and would be much obliged if you would send her some details as to the kind of work you have been accustomed to doing, so that she may let you know in case she hears of any opening.

Will you kindly let Mrs. Wharton know if you speak French fluently and are familiar with Paris?

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Mrs.M.T.Bates
18,rue Molitor
E.V.

19 Mai 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous remercier de l'aimable offre que vous lui avez faite de lui apporter votre concours artistique au bénéfice des Oeuvres dont elle s'occupe.

Madame Wharton est très touchée de votre généreuse pensée, mais malheureusement pour le moment les Comités qu'elle préside ne comptent pas donner de nouvelles fêtes de bienfaisance.

Madame Wharton ne vous en est pas moins reconnaissante d'avoir pensé à ses Oeuvres, et je vous prie de croire, Madame, à mes salutations les plus empressées.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Madame Barnay
154, rue Cardinet
E.V.

May 19th, 1917

Dear Mrs. Jones,

I am very sorry to hear that you have
not been well, and hope you will soon be
feeling stronger.

As I wrote you the other day, the
"Comité des Enquêteurs" meets only once a
month, on Wednesday afternoons; it is
only the small "Sous-Commission d'Admis-
sions" which meets every Friday.

I hope you will be well enough to
come to the next monthly meeting of the
Enquêteurs.

Yours very sincerely

22 Mai 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton a reçu par l'intermédiaire de Mademoiselle Jusélius les photographies et plans ci-joints qu'elle me prie de vous renvoyer.

Madame Wharton a pris bonne note des offres et se réserve d'y revenir à l'occasion.

Elle me charge de vous remercier, et je vous prie, Monsieur, d'agréer mes salutations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

25 Mai 1917

Madame,

Je regrette beaucoup de n'avoir pas été à mon Ouvroir lorsque vous y êtes venue hier.

Ma Directrice m'a remis le petit mémoire que vous lui avez donné au sujet de M. Broussemicke, et m'a aussi dit la façon aimable dont vous avez parlé de nos Maisons de Convalescence à Groslay.

Je tiens à vous remercier de suite de l'intérêt que vous y témoignez, et j'espère vous redire mes remerciements de vive voix de retour d'un petit voyage que je compte faire la semaine prochaine.

Quant à M. Broussemicke, je comprends très bien les raisons pour lesquelles vous tenez à l'éloigner le plus tôt possible. Malheureusement il nous est à peu près impossible de changer la date des départs de nos malades, qui sont fixés d'avance, d'accord avec une Oeuvre qui nous facilite les arrangements pour le voyage.

Je crois que M. Broussemicke fait partie du groupe qui se rend à Leysin aux premiers jours du mois de Juin, par conséquent il n'aura pas longtemps à attendre. Et à ce propos, je me permets de vous prier de vous assurez le plus tôt possible que tous nos papiers sont en règle, car plusieurs de nos malades ont manqué leur départ faute d'avoir fait à temps les démarches nécessaires.

Je vous prie, Madame, de croire à mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Madame Durey-Sohy
24, rue Greuze
E.V.

26 Mai 1917

Chère Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous demander de bien vouloir venir demain matin à 4.30 heures.

Madame Wharton est désolée du malen-
tendu qu'il y a eu au sujet des lettres de
M. Rodier que vous deviez aller chercher à
l'hôtel. Elle a tout expliqué à M. Rodier.

Veuillez croire, chère Mademoiselle,
à l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

25 Mai 1917

Chère Madame,

J'ai beaucoup regretté de ne pas avoir
pu aller à l'Ouvroir le jour que je vous
ai prié d'y venir. J'ai été vraiment débor-
dée depuis que M. Simmons a été pris par
l'ambassade, et je pars la semaine prochaine
pour prendre huit jours de repos.

Si vous pouviez venir me voir demain
vers deux heures chez moi, sans trop vous
déranger, je voudrais bien causer un peu
avec vous.

Veuillez croire, je vous prie, à mes
sentiments les meilleurs.

Madame Boutemy
7, rue Agar
E.V.

June 4th, 1917

Dear Mr. Mathews,

Please excuse my having to dictate this line in reply
to your note. I have been away for a short rest and have just
got back to Paris.

Of course I shall be very glad of the "American Fund"
will speak of my work in its bulletin, and if you will allow
me a few days time I will prepare a short memorandum for you.
The American Hostels are of course only one branch of my work,
and I should like to speak as well of the "Oeuvre des Enfants
des Flandres", and especially of the "Tuberculeux de la Guerre"
which, I hope, will outlast the war by several years and which
in some respect, is the most important undertaking with which
I am associated.

I should like to ask you to come and see me, so that
I might give you this information verbally, but I am still not
very well and my doctor insists on a partial rest-cure until I
am able to get away again at the end of the month. When I
return in September I hope to be able to take up a more normal
life, with more opportunities of seeing people.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely

June 5th 1917

To The President of the French
Républic has conferred on Mrs. Royall
Tyler the gold medal "pour dévouement"
in recognition of her devoted and untiring
work since the beginning of the War as
Vice-President of the American Hostels
for Refugees and of the Oeuvre des
Enfants des Flandres.

53, rue de Varenne
Paris.

9 Juin 1917

Monsieur le Commissaire,

Confirmant ma dépêche de ce matin:

"Pouvez-vous m'avoir nouvelles d'une infirmière Suisse, venant de Suisse, nommée Mademoiselle Cécile Roussier qui devait partir de Dijon jeudi dernier pour Paris. Elle m'a télégraphié de Dijon jeudi matin pour m'annoncer son départ pour Paris. Plus de nouvelle depuis. Elle devait être en tenue d'infirmière bleu foncé. Prière répondre Madame Wharton, Présidente Accueil Franco Américain aux Réfugiés, 53, rue Varenne, Paris".

je viens vous donner quelques détails supplémentaires sur l'infirmière au sujet de laquelle je vous ai télégraphié.

Mademoiselle Cécile Roussier a été envoyée par l'Ecole d'Infirmières de la Source, 4, Boulevard de Gran Lausanne, (Dr. Charle Krafft, Directeur) qui m'avait déjà envoyé une infirmière-major pou une de nos Maisons de Convalescence. L'Infirmière-Major qui est arrivée à Paris le 3 Juin m'a appris que Mademoiselle Roussier devait venir par Pontarlier et qu'elle arriverait probablement dans le courant de la semaine, et jeudi matin j'ai en effet reçu une dépêche que je vous envoie. Depuis ce moment je n'ai plus eu de nouvelle. Or, comme Mademoiselle Roussier connaît mon adresse à Paris, il me paraît impossible qu'elle ne m'ait pas envoyé une explication de son retard s'il ne lui est pas arrivé un accident, et je vous serais infiniment reconnaissante si vous vouliez faire votre possible pour découvrir ce qu'elle est devenue.

L'Ecole d'Infirmières de la Source est un établissement très connu, et Mademoiselle Roussier est l'amie de Mademoiselle Robert, l'infirmière-major qui est déjà arrivée. Malheureusement je n'ai jamais vu Mademoiselle Roussier, je ne puis par conséquent pas vous donner son signalement, mais elle a du être habillée en costume d'infirmière de la Croix-Rouge Suisse, comme Mademoiselle Robert.

C'est sur le conseil de la Préfecture de Police de Paris que je vous écris.

T.S.V.P.

13 Juin 1917

Chère Madame,

Je viens de recevoir votre lettre et je m'excuse d'être
obligée de diter ma réponse, mais je me suis fait mal à la
main droite et il m'est très difficile d'écrire.

Laissez-moi commencer par vous dire la part profonde que
je prends à votre chagrin. Je ne savais pas que vous aviez
perdu votre fils; si je l'avais su, croyez bien que je me serais
empressée de vous envoyer mes condoléances émues. Même pour
ceux qui n'ont pas souffert personnellement dans leur affection
de cette terrible guerre, le travail est le seul refuge, et je
comprends que vous ayez désiré reprendre immédiatement votre
tâche si lourde.

Je voudrais bien pouvoir vous envoyer moi-même ce qu'il
vous fait pour votre hôpital, mais malheureusement mes Oeuvres
ont pris un très grand développement, et l'argent m'arrive un
pau plus lentement que pendant les premiers mois de la guerre.
Je vais donc transmettre votre demande au Clearing House et
j'espère pouvoir vous envoyer prochainement une réponse favorable.

. Croyez, je vous prie, chère Madame, à mes sentiments très
sympathiques.

Madame J. de Marthille
Hôpital N° 7
Secteur 510 A.O.

June 13th, 1917

Dear Mr. Abbott,

I enclose a copy of a letter from Madame de Marthille, who worked with us at one time as an Infirmière, and for whose intelligence and capacity I can answer.

As you see she is with the army of the Orient, and her hospital needs many things. I transmit her request to you because I know her well enough to be sure that she will ask only for what is needed, and urgently needed, and whatever you are able to send will be put to the best use.

Would you be kind enough to let me know if there is a chance of her request being granted? I should like to let her hear definitely as soon as possible.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

Monsieur Walter Abbott
American Relief
Clearing House
5, rue François Ier
Paris.

June 14th, 1917

Dear Loulou,

Please excuse my having to dictate this
note. I have hurt my hand slightly and it is
difficult to write.

Today, unluckily, I have business
engagements all the afternoon, so I shall
have to put off going to see you until Monday.
I do not ask you to come here, as I should
like so much to do, because I am never sure
of being in at a fixed hour.

Looking forward to seeing you on Monday
without fail,

Yours affectionately

June 14th, 1917

Dear Mrs. Scott,

I had a visit yesterday from Mrs. Duryea, who came to ask to collaborate with the American Hostels by giving us a certain amount of clothing each month for our refugees.

She said that her Committee was not organized in such a way that the record of the refugees who applied to them could be looked up, and that therefore she felt she would be doing more good in trusting the distribution of a certain number of "bons" to the American Hostels, since she would be sure of the clothing being given to people who are worthy of interest?

I told Mrs. Duryea that we should appreciate this collaboration very much and asked her to go and see you. Her proposal is to give thirty "bons" a month, each "bon" being intended for five people, so that 150 people would receive garments every month through her Committee. No doubt, if you suggest to her what articles of clothing are most needed she will be able to arrange to supply you with them.

I tried to telephone you on the subject this morning, but you had just gone out.

Yours very sincerely

June 21st, 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that she has heard through Mademoiselle de Villeneuve that you were looking for an occupation on a war charity.

Mrs. Wharton would be very much obliged if you could come and see her at her Ouvroir, 254, Boulevard Saint-Germain, either to-morrow Friday morning at 12.30 o'clock, or if that is not possible then next Wednesday at 12 o'clock.

Mrs. Wharton would appreciate your letting her know on which of these two days you would be able to come.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Miss Madeleine Davis
c/° Mme de Villeneuve
169, Boulevard Péreire
E.V.

21 Juin 1917

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that she
knows very well the property of the Parc
de Mareil which has been repeatedly offered
to her by Mr. Chaloub.

Mr. Chaloub asked a price out of all
proportion to the value of his own
property and has no idea of making any
reduction for a charity, although he has
repeatedly announced his intention of
doing so.

Mrs. Wharton asks me to tell you that
the property is entirely without interest.

Yours very truly

Mr. Frank Arthur
378, rue St-Honoré

E.V.

June 22nd, 1917

Dearest Nathalie,

Your letter enclosing the cheque for 80 has just come.
You are such a wonderful hand at collecting money that I feel
as if I had already exhausted all my expressions of gratitude,
although gratitude itself is perpetually renewed.

I enclose a receipt in blank for the Belgian lady, and
also a line of thanks on my card, as you forgot to give her name,
and I do not even know if she is Madame or Mademoiselle. Will
you please fill in the receipt with her name?

I am writing myself to thank Miss Anderson and send her
her receipt. You will have heard from me by this time that your
two cheques of 1.000 each came safely, and were received with
heart-felt gratitude. You may imagine how glad I am to get this
last donation of 80 when I tell you that our funds for the
"Enfants des Flandres" had descended last week to $400! However I
hope the American Red-Cross will come to our aid by next Autumn
though I doubt if they are organized before that an such a way
as to deal with French war-charities, since they must naturally
take up our own army organization first.

Thank you again with all my heart, dearest Nathalie,
and excuse this dictated letter.

Yours affectionately

21 Juin 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu
votre dernière lettre au sujet de la famille Richer. Madame Wharton
demande immédiatement à la Sous-Commission d'Enquêtes de l'Accueil
Franco-Américain de visiter cette famille et de voir de quelle
façon l'Œuvre pourrait leur venir en aide.

Madame Wharton est très touchée de votre offre de remettre
100 frs. aux Tuberculeux de la Guerre, mais elle croit que cet
argent serait peut-être utilement employé en le partageant, comme
vous le proposez, entre la famille Richer et l'autre réfugié dont
vous lui parlez.

Si vous voulez envoyer les 50 francs à Madame Wharton, elle
se chargera de les employer de son mieux pour secourir la famille
Richer, d'après les résultats de l'enquête.

Madame Wharton regrette qu'il lui soit impossible de vous
envoyer en ce moment-ci une description plus détaillée de l'Œuvre
des Tuberculeux de la Guerre, mais elle est très fatiguée et part
après-demain pour un repos de deux mois. Voici l'adresse du Comité
de New-York:

Walter Maynard Esquire
President of the New-York Committee of
the French Tuberculous War-Victims.
Fifth Avenue Building, New-York.

En s'adressant à ce Comité Madame de Coppet aura tous les
renseignements qu'elle pourra désirer. Quant à la maison que Madame
Wharton vous a parlé et qu'elle espère pouvoir fonder pour les
tuberculeux mourants, il est impossible de donner des précisions,
puisque le nombre de lits dépendra de l'argent que Madame Wharton
pourra recueillir. A cause de l'augmentation, il faudrait compter
5.000 frs. pour la fourniture d'un lit et son maintien pendant un an

Veuillez recevoir, Monsieur, l'assurance de mes sentiments
distingués.

M. Bellivet
Château de Maigüres (Calvados)

June 22nd, 1917

Dear Sally,

I have left you a long time without a letter, because,
as Blair has no doubt told you, I have had a great deal more
work on my hands since our declaration of war, which took from
me two of our best workers, and has left me to cope with the
task really beyond my strength.

But I must tell you in a few words my great delight at
the tremendous success of the Opera-House festival, and also
send you my warmest congratulations over the results of the
dog-show, which seem to have been equally wonderful.

We are eagerly waiting the arrival of Dr. White, but,
alas, he brings only three nurses of the seven or eight who
had been promised before we declared war. The others are all
taken by the Red-Cross.

As the quickest way of showing you what we have been
doing since I last wrote I enclose a copy of the letter I sent
last week to Walter Maynard. As soon as Dr. White arrives I
hope we shall have much more to tell you.

Please excuse this telegraphic note, and believe me,

ever more gratefully and affectionately

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would cable as soon as possible after your
arrival, and I appreciate your offering to
make these enquiries for me, as I know how
much else you have on your hands at this
moment.

With best wishes for a good voyage,

Yours very sincerely

27 Juin 1917

Monsieur le Préfet,

Sur la recommandation de M. le Président du Conseil et de l'Ambassadeur des Etats-Unis, M. Laurent avait bien voulu m'accorder une carte d'essence pour 500 litres.

Afin que j'obtienne l'essence plus rapidement, M. Laurent m'avait fait remettre, les 28 de chaque mois, un bon de réquisition pour les 500 litres. Je me permets donc de venir vous demander de vouloir bien m'accorder la même faveur.

Les raisons sur lesquelles ma demande est basée sont les suivantes: je suis la Présidente du Accueil Franco-Américain aux Réfugiés Belges et Français, des Maisons de Convalescence Américaines, et de l'Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres, et Vice-Présidente de l'Oeuvre des Tuberculeux de la Guerre. Ces quatre organisations comprennent onze maisons à Paris, cinq en Seine-Oise, deux en Normandie, deux en Bourgogne, et une en Touraine. Je suis constamment obligée de me rendre à une ou l'autre de ces différentes maisons, dont plusieurs sont à peu près inaccessibles par le chemin de fer à cause de la lenteur des trains et de l'impossibilité de trouver des moyens de transport.

J'espère donc, Monsieur le Préfet, que vous aurez la bonté de m'allouer la quantité d'essence que m'avait accordée M. Laurent, et en vous remerciant d'avance, je vous prie d'agréer l'assurance de ma considération distinguée.

Monsieur le Préfet de Police.

27 Juin 1917

Monsieur,

Je viens, comme d'habitude, vous demander de bien vouloir
me rendre un service.

Au moment où l'essence pour automobiles a été rationnée,
Mr Laurent avait bien voulu me coordérer, en raison des nombreux
déplacements nécessités par la surveillance de nos hôpitaux et
maisons de réfugiés, une carte mensuelle pour 500 litres d'essence

Il avait été convenu que, dès que les carte triptyques
étaient mises en circulation, il me serait remis un carnet; mais
en attendant M. Laurent, afin que j'obtienne plus rapidement
l'essence, m'avait fait remettre chaque mois un bon de réquisi-
tion pour les 500 litres.

Comme je ne connais pas personnellement M.
je viens vous demander si vous voulez me rendre le très grand
service d'être mon intermédiaire auprès de lui pour qu'il continue
à m'accorder la même quantité d'essence. Personne mieux que vous
ne pourra confirmer ce que je dis à M. le Préfet de Police dans
la lettre ci-dessus, que je vous prie de lui remettre après en
avoir pris connaissance.

En vous remerciant d'avance, je vous prie, Monsieur, de
croire à mes sentiments les plus distingués.

Monsieur Paul Guichard
Chef-Adjoint de la Sureté
Municipale
Préfecture de Police.

27 Juin 1917

Madame,

Je vous prie de m'excuser si je suis obligée de dicter cette lettre, mais j'ai la main droite très fatiguée et il m'est impossible d'écrire.

Je vous remercie de m'avoir signalé le traitement contre la tuberculose recommandé par la Soeur Sainte-Marguerite. La direction médicale de nos Sanatoria est entre les mains d'un spécialiste américain, et il est impossible pour les membres du Comité d'inter-venir dans des questions de cet ordre; mais je ne manquerai pas de remettre votre lettre au Docteur White.

Je vous envoie une invitation à une petite fête que nous donnons vendredi prochain dans une des nos maisons de l'Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres. Je serais très heureuse si vous vouliez nous faire le plaisir d'y assister, et je vous prie, Madame, de croire à l'expression de mes sentiments distingués.

Madame Vve Leduc
254, Boulevard Saint-Germain
Paris.

June 28th, 1917

Dear Mr. Knight,

You asked me to sum up in writing
our talk about a children's rest-house
at the seashore, and I enclose the
accompanying memorandum, which will give
you an idea of what we hope to do, and
of the probable cost.

Yours very sincerely

30 Juin 1917

Chère Mademoiselle,

Voici le nom et l'adresse du jeune
candidat pour le pavillon du Docteur
Letulle à la Salpêtrière.:

Robert Jonval, 4, rue de Montreuil,
Nogent-sur-Marne,

L'Ambulance Américaine fera prendre
Jonval mardi après-midi prochain à Nogent-
sur-Marne et l'emmènera à la Salpêtrière.
Au cas où vous ne pourriez pas lui envoyer
sa carte d'admission à temps pour qu'il
puisse partir mardi, je vous demanderai de
bien vouloir prier votre secrétaire d'en-
voyer un petit bleu à la mienne, Mlle
Jeanne Duprat, 14, rue Lamartine, IXe,
qui préviendra l'Ambulance.

Je vous envoie mon souvenir affectueux.

Mademoiselle Chaptal
66, rue Vercingétorix
Paris.

20 Juillet 1917

Madame,

Je regrette de vous faire savoir
que le docteur a ordonné un repos complet
de plusieurs mois à Madame Wharton, et qu'il
lui est impossible, en ce moment-ci, de
s'occuper de sa correspondance.

Je vous renvoie donc les papiers que
vous avez eu l'obligeance de lui envoyer
en vous exprimant encore une fois tout mon
regret de ne pas pouvoir en communiquer le
contenu à Madame Wharton.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes saluta-
tions les plus distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

July 23, 1917

Dear Miss Fisher,

Please excuse the delay in my reply
about Madame Lecomte. I wrote you a
letter about a fortnight ago asking you
to send her to see Mademoiselle Landormy,
Directrice of my Ouvroir, 254, Boulevard
St-Germain, but evidently this letter
has not reached you.

As I have not kept Madame Lecomte's
address I shall have to ask you to be
kind enough to write her at once. It will
not be too late as Mlle Landormy is not
leaving for Montargis until the 1st of
August. I am so sorry about this
involuntary delay.

Yours sincerely.

Miss Miriam Fisher
Hotel Normandie
Deauville.

17 Juillet 1917

Madame Dreux Le Corbeiller
81, rue de Grenelle
Paris.

Madame,

Madame Wharton vous prie de l'excuser si elle ne peut pas répondre elle-même à votre lettre. Elle est très fatiguée et son médecin lui a ordonné deux ou trois mois de repos à la campagne.

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire que pour les renseignements que vous demandez au sujet de la nouvelle de Monsieur Henry James, il faudrait vous adresser à Monsieur Percy Lubbock, 26 Cadogan Gardens, London W. Elle regrette

Elle regrette beaucoup de ne pas avoir pour le moment d'emploi à offrir à Madame votre nièce, mais si l'occasion se présente elle ne manquera de la prévenir, et elle me charge de vous remercier d'avoir bien voulu lui parler de Madame Sérieyx. Elle regrette infiniment de ne pas pouvoir vous écrire elle-même, mais elle doit prendre un repos complet.

Veuillez croire, Madame, à l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

July 24th, 1917

Dear Mr. Perkins,

You told me some time ago that I might write you about the
financial situation of my various War-Gharities.

I have not done so before, as I thought it only fair to
give the Red-Cross time to organize its own work and to look into
that which has been done here since the beginning of the war; but
I have just received a letter from General Pershing expressing
a very generous appreciation of my particular effort, and as I
suppose this to be the result of the inspection of my various
Charities by the Red-Cross Commission I feel I may now venture
to remind you of our talk.

All my Charities — The Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres,
the American Hostels for Refugees, the Maisons de Convalescence
Américaines, (run in connection with the Hostels, but with
independent funds), the Tuberculous War-Victims Committee, and
my own Ouvroir for Parisian workwomen not in receipt of a war-
allowance — have been run almost entirely on private subscription
from America; and it is evident that, as a result of the recent
successful appeal of the American Red-Cross in the United-States,
individual charities here cannot hope for the same support from
home for some time to come.

It seems to me that the simplest way is to state our
exact needs, placed on previous experience, and leaving it to
the Red-Cross to judge how far these different charities deserve
its support. I enclose a statement on a separate sheet and will
only add that our books are open for inspection at any time.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

Mr. James Perkins
Hotel Ritz
Place Vendôme Paris.

July 24th 1917

### OUVRE DES ENFANTS DES FLANDRES:

Cares for 720 Belgian children and 210 adult refugee (old men and women, and Belgian nuns in charge of the colonies).

Running expenses per month: 10.000 francs.

### AMERICAN HOSTELS FOR REFUGEES:

Cares permanently for between 3.000 and 4.000 refugees, chiefly women and children, old men, and persons unable to work.

Running expenses per month: 40.000 francs.

### MAISONS DE CONVALESCENCE AMERICAINES:

185 beds for refugee women and children, at Groslay and Arromanches. (Tuberculosis, anaemia and general fatigue).

Running expenses per month from 35.000 to 40.000 frs.

### TUBERCULOUS WAR-VICTIMS COMMITTEE:

By next October we shall have about 500 beds.

Running expenses estimated at about 155.000 frs. per month. This is subject to revision as only 80 beds are now running; but the expense will certainly not be lower, and may be higher.

### MRS. WHARTON'S OUVROIR FOR PARISIAN WORKWOMEN:

Employs an average of 50 women whose health will not permit them to work in munition factories and who receive no military-allowance. The Ouvroir is partly self-supporting, and an occasional donation of a few thousand francs would put it on a secure basis.

Fontainebleau,

July 27th, 1917

Dear Mrs. Scott,

Excuse my delaying so long to answer your last note. I have
been very busy with the usual questions arising on the eve of
everybody's taking a holiday!

Of course you must not think of continuing your monthly
subscription to the Hostels while you need funds for the Vestiaire.
The whole organisation of the Hostels must sink or swim together,
and it would be eminently unfair for the general funds to receive
a subscription from you when you are in need of money for a branch
of the work for which you have undertaken to raise the funds. For
the same reason, you must always let me know when you need a sum
from the general fund to bridge over a deficiency in your department

The Red Cross Commission (represented by Mr. Endicott and Mr. Bicknell) came to see me yesterday to ask me to give them a statement of my monthly expenses of the Hostels, and of the amount we required to carry us through the winter. I told them that two branches of the work were at present supported independently, the Dispensary by Mrs. Tuck, Mrs. Bliss and the Milles Léonino, and the Vestiaire by your efforts. The monthly expenses of the Dispensary are fully covered, but I told the Commissioners that the demands on the Vestiaire were constantly increasing, and asked them to see you and hear from you what your requirements were.

As I understand it, the Red Cross is asking each organisa-
tion:

1st. Approximately, what monthly assistance can you count on?

2nd. How much more do you need to cover your expenses?

The other day I received a donation of some remarkably good
children's suits for the Enfants des Flandres from the wholesale
house of Neyret, 17, rue d'Uzès, with whom one of our Secretaries
happened to have had business relations formerly. They sent me words
that they had a number of the same kind of boys' suits to sell off
at a reduction, and the quality of the cloth is so remarkable and
the models are so good that I should suggest your writing to ask
their price. I am closing my Ouvroir on Tuesday for a month, but

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would be better, because of my great fatigue, to give our whole
plant to the Red Cross, and let them do the work; but all this is
in suspense, and must remain so for several weeks, probably. What
is immediately relevant is:

I. What we must give Groslay and Arromanches to the Tuberculeux de la Guette at once, stipulating that till the end of the war we shall keep a large proportion of the beds to Hostels refugees.

or:

2. (alternatively) ask the R.C. to support these houses when they finally come to decision on their tuberculosis plans. But in this case, doubtless, only partial aid could be hoped for.

3. In either case, a system of book-keeping uniform with that of the Tuberculeux or of the Red Cross will have to be adopted. Dr. White makes this a condition of his managing the Tuberculeux, and Mr. Endicott told me the Red Cross would make the same demand of every charity they assist. From a business point of view this seems to me quite proper.

4. Mr. Endicott took my statement of monthly expenditures of the Hostels and Enfants des Flandres and said we should hear in a few weeks what they could do for us, but that certainly they could not, and would not, guarantee the whole amount. Whatever they gave, however, they would promise to give for at least nine or ten months; that is, they would "see us through the winter". Walter Berry was present, and insisted emphatically on the fact that we could not form any approximate estimate of what we were likely to receive from private sources from now on, as the entry of America into the war, and the sweeping appeal of the R.C. for funds, had altered the conditions fundamentally.

Mr. Endicott agreed, but the "mot d'ordre" was evidently that the R.C. is to pauperize no able-bodied charity. As I have said, Dr. White's explanation is that there is a strong "greater glory of the R.C." party in that body.

All this is serious for us because:

1. The general opinion seems to be that we shall have another two years of war.

2. Even if the conditions were not entirely changed in America I don't feel up to starting another big campaign for funds this autumn. Therefore we are somewhat in the position of the man of whom his wife was asked by the clergyman if he was "resigned", when

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he died, and who said: "I guess he had to be".

I am sorry to bother you with all this, but there is no
cause for "worry", I believe, but only for rather prompt
adaptability to new and inevitable conditions.

Love to you both.

Yours affectionately

P.S. - I am sending a copy of this to Royall, in the chance that you may go to Paris.

I forgot to say that "Prize Day" went off brilliantly at Boissy d'Anglas the day before yesterday. Mrs. Coolidge approved of the date when I whose it ten days ago, and then sent me word a few days later that she preferred the 29th, which would have kept me the whole week in Paris! So I declined, and we had it without her. "She didn't even write me to ask me to change, but sent me work through Madame Cahen).

Marcel Daire swept off all the Ists, but everybody managed to get a book and a crown, and the children looked like pictures, and their mothers looked so nice too. The two youngest gave a bunch of lilies to Mme Heugues and Mlle Philippe.

Madame Cahen has asked for a two weeks holiday beginning about the 8th. Madame Desteven, or whatever is the name of the Surveillante, and Jardel, will replace her.

July 30th, 1917

Dear Mr. Miller,

I have just received a letter from Mademoiselle de Vaux which seems to suggest that I misread the letter from her which I enclosed to you the other day. My impression was that the letter was written to recommend a young soldier who wanted artificial hands, but apparently it was to thank me for having already obtained hands for him through the Clearing House.

I have no recollection of asking the Clearing House for hands for Marchat until I wrote the other day enclosing Mademoiselle de Vaux's letter about him; but I have been so busy and tired for the last few weeks that I may have made some stupid mistake; it seems to me therefore that the best thing is to enclose this new letter from Mlle de Vaux, and ask you to be kind enough to compare the two and correct my mistake, whatever it was. In any case, Mlle de Vaux has a new candidate who seems to be very worthy of interest, and especially worth helping promptly as he has a job in view which would be given him as soon as he can get an American leg.

Thanks again for all the help you give me.

Yours very sincerely

H. Miller Esqr
American Red-Cross
Place de la Concorde
Paris.

31 Juillet 1917

Cher Monsieur,

Excusez-moi d'être obligée de dicter ces quelques mots, mais je suis ici "au repos", et je dois écrire aussi peu de lettres que possible.

Je crains que l'Accueil Franco-Américain ne puisse malheureusement rien faire pour la pauvre femme que vous me recommandez. Toutefois, je vais en partir à notre Vice-Président, Monsieur del Marmol, qui pourrait peut-être obtenir pour elle un secours de l'Aide Temporaire aux Réfugiés Belges, quoiqu'elle ne rentre pas dans la catégorie des personnes secoures par cette Oeuvre.

En attendant, je suis heureuse de vous envoyer 50 francs que je vous prierai de lui envoyer à Paris. Je ne les lui remets pas directement, parce que, comme vous le pensez, je suis débordée de demandes de secours par des personnes qui ne peuvent pas être secourues par notre Oeuvre. Je vous demande instamment de ne pas lui dire d'où vient ce don, que je prélève sur un petit fond constitué par des amis américains pour des ças exceptionnels.

Je vous prie de me rappeler au bon souvenir de Madame Piot, et de croire à

1er Aout 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire que la personne
que M. de Gieystor a oublié d'inscrire le nom sur la liste
des appointements est Mlle Victorin qui a un emploi temporaire
au bureau des Champs Elysées. Ces appointements sont de 150
francs par mois et elle est rentrée le jeudi 19 Juillet. Il
faut donc lui envoyer 95 francs qui représentent ses appointe-
ments jusqu'au 1er Juillet. Madame Wharton préfère qu'avec le
compte vous envoyiez à Mlle Victorin un mot pour lui expliquer
que l'Oeuvre règle toujours le 1er du mois et que par consé-
quent vous lui envoyez ses appointements du 19 Juillet jusqu'à
ce jour.

August 1st 1917

Dear Dr. Williams,

Thank you so much for your letter of July 12th.

Thanks also for the cable which I received about a fortnight ago, but which I did not acknowledge as I thought it better to wait for your letter.

The information you send me about the author of "The Mothercraft Manual" convinces me that we do not need her here. I am very grateful to you for taking the trouble to find out about her for I know how busy you must have been ever since your return.

Here we are all passing through a stage of great anxiety regarding the future of our Charities. The Red Cross seems to be planning such extensive undertakings of its own that there is a general impression that they will do little for the already existing American War-Charities, in spite of the eloquent letter of approbation which we have received from General Pershing. As the immense sums raised by the Red Cross in America have, for the time at any rate, stopped our sources of income, we are all wondering how we are to keep our charities going, and I am especially anxious about the Hostels as the organization is such a large one and is responsible for the welfare of so many people. It seems hardly fair of the Red Cross to have made such a colossal appeal in America unless it was prepared to make up to individual charities for the loss of assistance which has inevitably resulted

I have seen Dr. Farrand, Dr. Miller and Mr. Folks, but have heard nothing as yet about their plans concerning tuberculosis in France so in this respect our outlook is obscure.

I hope you are coming back before long and that you will let me know in advance if there is any chance of seeing you.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

August 18 1917

Dear Mrs. Putnam,

Please excuse my having to dictate this answer to your
note of July 12th which I have just received.

As my sister in law told you, the staff of the American
Hostels is at present complete, and in any case the work is so
dull and the hours are so long that I do not think it would
suit you. If I hear of anything else I will not fail to let
you know, but I should suggest to applying to the Red Cross,
as they seem to be making very large plans for work and must
have need of many helpers.

You probably know by this time that the Clearing
House no longer exist but has been absorbed by the Red Cross.

Thank you so much for your offer of help, and
please believe that I appreciate it greatly.

Yours very sincerely

Mrs. James Putnam
The Malvern
Bar Harbor

August 6th 1917

Dear Dr. White,

Will you be kind enough to let me have a summary of the motor organization as it exists at present, pending a definite arrangement either with the Red-Cross or independently. It is difficult for me to talk to M. de Gieystor about it without knowing just how you have organized it.

I enclose a cable received from Mr. Moffat. I don't understand why the Red-Cross addresses its enquiries to me instead of to its own Committee. Will you tell me what you think I had better answer?

I note that Mr. Folks's impression on Groslay and the rue du Dr. Blanche was favourable. I regret very much that I was not told in advance of his visit, as I should have liked to take him to Groslay. I think it ought to be seen in connection with the general visit to the Hostels organization, in order to show its relation to the rest. I can always come up to Paris for the day if I am notified the evening before.

Yours sincerely

August 6th 1917

Dear Miss Laws,

Dr. White told me the other day that you wished to visit the American Hostels, and I asked him to explain to you that I would rather have you make your visit after the 28th of August, as the work is more or less suspended until then. The Clothing Depot is closed until September 1st, and the women's workroom until August 28th; and there is measles at the Rest-House at Auteuil!

In the circumstances I would rather have you wait, but the next time I come to Paris which will probably be in about eight days, I should be delighted to take you to Groslay and to one of our Children of Flander Houses.

I send you this line as I fear Dr. White may have forgotten to explain exactly why I should prefer to have you put off your visit to the Hostels.

Yours very sincerely

Fontainebleau

August 7th, 1917

Dear Mrs. Scott,

Many thanks for your letter. I am so glad that the Red-Cross has given you the hope of substantial assistance, for it seems to me only fair that they should help the existing charities in Paris to struggle through another year of war before they start on undertakings of their own.

I have just received a letter from my friend, Miss Elizabeth Hoyt, who has been sent out with Miss Martha Draper, on a Red-Cross Mission to report on methods of standardizing garments and hospital supplies for work in France. I have told her to write you to ask if there is anyone of your Committee in Paris who could give her practical information about refugee clothing and you will probably hear from her in a day or two. This is simply to explain that she is writing at my request, as I was sure you would be able to give her a great deal of useful information.

I hope your sure will do you a great deal of good, and I envy you for being so far from Paris. Fontainebleau is too near for a real rest.

Yours very sincerely

Fontainebleau, Hotel Savoy

August 8th, 1917

Dear Dr. White,

I have your letter and fear I did not express myself quite
clearly with regard to the question of the motor organization. What
I wished to know was how the service has been organized in relation
to the American Hostels and to the Enfants des Flandres, who are
represented by M. de Gieystor. Will you kindly send me a little
summary of the arrangements you have made in relation to the trans-
portation needs of these two charities?

My secretary did not enclose Mr. Moffat's cable because, on
re-reading it, I found that it referred only to the supplies for
refugees. It was badly worded and my first impression was that it
included an inquiry about supplies for tuberculosis sanatoria.

I am writing to Mr. Folks to ask if in future he will let
me know in advance whenever he wishes to visit any of our houses. I
can always come up to Paris if I am notified the day before.

I entirely approve of your suggestion of proposing to the
two American nurses at Groslay that we should board them in Paris
for a time so that they may look for another job. Will you kindly
notify them of this and arrange to have them leave Groslay as soon
as possible?

Yours sincerely

Fontainebleau, Hotel Savoy,

8 Aout 1917

Cher Monsieur,

Excusez-moi, je vous prie, si je suis obligée de dicter cette lettre au lieu de vous écrire moi-même, mais je suis un peu fatiguée, et on vient de me demander un renseignement que vous pourrez probablement me fournir.

L'hiver dernier une de mes compatriotes, qui habite New-York, m'avait demandé de lui obtenir des renseignements sur une Oeuvre qui s'appelle "La Sauvegarde de l'Enfance". Je me suis renseignée, et on m'a dit que cette Oeuvre n'existait plus, renseignement que j'ai immédiatement envoyé à ma correspondante. Celle-ci vient de me faire savoir qu'on lui a appris que l'Oeuvre existe toujours, mais qu'elle a fusionné avec une autre Oeuvre qui s'appelle l'Accueil Français. Il paraît que cette dame a vu un article de vous, daté du 16 Janvier dernier, dans lequel vous demandiez des secours pour "La Sauvegarde de l'Enfance". Je me permets donc de vous demander d'avoir la bonté de me dire tout ce que vous savez sur cette Oeuvre et de m'envoyer autant de précisions que possible.

Excusez-moi de vous déranger, et croyez, je vous prie, cher Monsieur et confrère, à mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Monsieur Lucien Descaves.

Fontainebleau, Hotel Savoy

August 11th, 1917

Dear Miss Hoyt,

I wish I could give a more satisfactory answer to your letter of August 8th, but, as I told you in my previous letter, every one on the Hostels and Children of Flanders Committees, who is concerned in the buying and making of garments is away at present. The Clothing Depot of the Hostels being closed, and my Ouvroir also, the only establishment you could visit would be the houses of the "Enfants des Flandres", where we dress the children in a uniform, but where the nuns in charge could give you no details as to the cost of all the buying of materials, and much of the work of making up, are not at my Ouvroir.

I quite agree with what you say about the usefulness of having a certain amount of clothing made in America, and as soon as Mrs. Tyler and my directrice come back, shortly after August 20th, they will be able to give you the best possible advice on the subject. Meanwhile, I copy the following from a letter I have just received from Mrs. Tyler in reply to a cable from the Red-Cross in America asking me the same questions you have put. Mrs. Tyler says:

"The things most difficult to get here are flannel, india-rubber goods, and cotton materials".

With regard to supplies needed for the hospitals I should advise your consulting Mr. Abbott of the Clearing House, who is now at the Red-Cross, 4, Place de la Concorde.

I was very sorry to hear through some one to whom your aunt Lizzie had written last week that Martha is ill with a fever in the hospital at Alexandria. Have you any particulars, and if so will you be so kind as to send me a line? I have written to your aunt Lizzie, but I stupidly forgot to put a letter I had from her a short time ago and I cannot remember her post office address. I put "near Dorchester" but fear that is not right, and am so vexed at my carelessness in forgetting her exact address. Would you be kind enough to put it on the enclosed letter for her?

Fontainebleau, Hôtel Savoy

Aujourd'hui, 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre du 9 courant.

Madame Wharton n'a nullement l'intention de rentrer à Paris, et elle regrette d'apprendre qu'elle l'on vous a mal renseigné. Elle vous serait donc très obligée de bien vouloir lui donner, par écrit, quelques précisions sur la proposition dont vous faites mention dans votre lettre, et après examen, Madame Wharton ne manquera de vous envoyer sa réponse.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Monsieur de Algarra
165, Avenue Wagram
Paris.

Aout II, 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire que les sommes dont la liste vous a été envoyée viennent du Comité de New-York, et qu'elle regrette infiniment d'apprendre que vous n'avez pas reçu les lettres qu'elle vous a adressées à ce sujet. Aussi, Madame Wharton vous prie de l'ex-cuser d'avoir omis de noter la mention "New-York Committee" pour la somme de 899, 35 au compte des Enfants des Flandres.

Quant à la somme de 1.387,90 qui a été déposée chez Munroe le 21 Juillet, elle ne provient pas du Comité de New-York.

Veuillez trouver inclus une nouvelle copie de la liste des sommes qui doivent être portées sur vos livres comme ayant été envoyées par le "New-York Committee".

Agréez, Monsieur, mes salutations les plus distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

13 August 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to enclose this
letter from Madame Lecomte. You will see
that Madame Lecomte has been going each
time to the "Dispensaire" instead of going
to Mrs. Wharton's Ouvroir.

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say how
sorry she is about this mistake, but she
thinks that Mme Lecomte alone is to blame,
as Mrs. Wharton remembers asking you sever-
al weeks ago to send her to 254, Boulevard
Saint-Germain.

Mrs. Wharton is not very well and
begs you to excuse her not writing to you
herself.

Miss Fisher
Hotel Normandie
Deauville.

August 20th, 1917

Dear Mr. Ledyard,

I am writing to explain my long cable of the day before yesterday.

At the very moment when I received Walter Maynard's cable, saying that you and he recommended the affiliation of the Tuberculosis Sanatoria with the Red-Cross, I was just about to cable you that all the American members of our Committee here had already come to the same conclusion. I have little doubt that the French members will also agree to the suggestion, and we have called a meeting for the 24th to consider the question. It remains to be seen if the Red-Cross will accept our proposal; but Dr. White seems to think it probable.

As regards the Sanatoria, affiliation with the Red-Cross, and even absorption into it, is undoubtedly to be desired. The immense sum of money raised in America by the Red-Cross bids fair to dry up the resources of all our private charities, and it would be absurd to hope to carry on a work of such importance without their aid. All the American members of the Committee are of the opinion that it would be best to make over the Sanatoria and the funds entirely to the Red-Cross; and I hope the arrangement may be made without much delay. But with respect to the houses of Croslay and Arromanches, the situation is different. As you know, they are rest-houses and convalescent homes rather than actual hospitals, and the service they have rendered in helping back to health the refugee women and children cared for by the American Hostels has been in calculable. To hand over these houses to the Red-Cross would be to absorb in one gigantic organisation a small formation of a very special kind, which owed its success in great measure to the fact that Mrs. Royall Tyler and I are both exceptionally familiar with French ideas and social conditions, and that we have had three years of work among the refugees. Necessarily, these qualifications are exactly those which the Red-Cross workers lack. But apart from this, the reputation acquired by our houses at Croslay and Arromanches has largely added to the popularity of the American Hostels in America, and if we separate these houses from the American Hostels, and the are absorbed into the big tuberculosis organisation of the

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Red-Cross, the Hostels will lose a great deal of their prestige both in America and here. As the work stands at present, it is a complete organisation, providing for the refugees in every possible way, in health and in illness, feeding, lodging and clothing them, finding employment for them, sending packages to their relations who are in German prisons, caring for mothers after confinement, providing dental care for the children, and lastly giving country air and medical care to the tuberculous and convalescent.

I have seen enough of the Red-Cross point of view to feel sure that if they bake over Crosley and Arronanches, much of the tone that we have so carefully created there, and which has been so much appreciated by every one who had visited our houses, will inevitably be lost through the lack of experience of an administration less familiar with the peculiarities of the people we are caring for; and it would be such a sorrow to me to see this work diminish in usefulness that, after much hesitation, I ventured to cable you the other day, in the hope that you and Mr. Whitney might perhaps help me to carry on these houses for another year. Perhaps by that time the refugees will be able to go home, and the Red-Cross will also have leaned a little more about France and French characteristics.

Our donations from America have fallen off alarmingly since the Red-Cross appeal. I can still count on about 18,000 francs a month for the American Hostels, of which the monthly expenses are about 40,000 francs; so that, if I can raise another 20,000 francs a month, that branch of the work is secure. But I have never had any regular monthly subscriptions for the Convalescent Homes, and have kept them going only through occasional gifts and through the money raised in America by entertainments and concerts.

Let me add, dear Mr. Ledyard, that should you and Mr. Whitney decide that the plan I suggest is not practicable, I shall, quite understand your unwillingness to attempt it, and shall always cherish with infinite gratitude the thought of all you have already enabled me to do.

Yours very sincerely

P.S.- I enclose a statement of the number of patients cared for since the opening of the houses.

Fontainebleau, August 21st, 1917

Dear Winifred,

I have just had your memorandum about the Convalescent
Homes and the Dispensary put into shape and typed, but I fear
it does not quite fulfil the medical requirements, and I wish it
to be as complete as possible, as I am sending it to the founders
of Croslay and Arromanches.

You will see that in the case of Belle Alliance you
have not given the number of beds for women and for children,
nor the number of women and children, respectively, received up
to August 1st, nor the proportion of women and children among
the 42 patients sent home. At Bon Accueil, on the contrary, you
have given the women and children separately, as it should be done.

I would add very much to the interest of the statement
if you or Mademoiselle Otz would make out a medical record for
Bon Accueil and for the rue du Docteur Blanche, stating the
different illnesses from which the patients were suffering, (for
instance: how many from bronchitis, how many from general anaemia,
etc, etc...) and also how many were discharged cured, and how many
left before they were cured, and for what reason. I suppose these
facts must be recorded on Mademoiselle Otz's fiches, and if not
they certainly should be.

Would it be possible to prepare these figures for me
by Friday before one o'clock? I am going up to Paris on Thursday
afternoon, and should like to send off the statement by Friday
evening's post, if possible. I can have it typed on Friday
afternoon, if you can give it to me before luncheon. I am sorry
to ask you this at the last moment, but I supposed that all the
facts were given as they usually are in any statement about a
hospital, and I had not read over your memorandum.

Yours affectionately

And now referring to your letters.

## Letter of June 1st -

1. I am not sure if I have acknowledged this latter in which you told me that you had given my address to Mr. Frederick Hoppin. I asked Mr. Hoppin to lunch as soon as he arrived and liked him very much; but I have not seen him since, no doubt, because we are both so busy.

2. You asked me to send for a Miss Davies who was recommended to you by a head-clerk at the French Consulate in New-York. I wrote to Miss Davies, but luckily discovered in time that she is a boring person who writes long letters to the Herald, and is always in pursuit of a job in a hospital; so I dropped her politely but promptly.

3. With regard to Miss McClelland, whom you propose as business-manager, we learned from Dr. White when he arrived that he apparently considered himself engaged for that department, rather than for the medical supervision, or rather that he wished to combine both. As he is a friend of Dr. Farrand's and or Dr. Miller's it seemed to us best to let him take in hand the whole management of the work. I will bear in mind Miss McClelland's offer, however, for she might be useful to us in another line later on.

## Letter of June 22nd.-

You tell me that Mr. Robinson gave an additional $1,000 in July to secure certain benefits at the autumn bazaar in New-York. He is really extraordinarily kind, and I hope he will not mind my telling him so in a short letter.

## Letter of July 3rd (From Bar Harbour) -

1. I have received the $1,000 given for lingerie by Olivia Cutting and Mrs. Hamilton of which you speak in this letter and am writing to thank them.

2. How very nice of Miss Cottenet to offer to give an entertainment at Bar Harbour for my charities! I wish you had accepted her suggestion that it should be given entirely for my refugee work, for the Tuberculeux de la Guerre are relatively rich,

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useful and I will try to write a line to thank the two donors.

2. The total sum of §7528, 75 cents from Miss Neuhaus's concert tour is so wonderful that I hope very much she will be able to continue giving concerts for our benefit. I do hope that any difficulty can be smoothed out; I am writing her a letter of thanks which I shall enclose to you as I do not know her present address.

3. With regard to the "Sauvegarde de l'Enfance" I have no recollection of having made enquiries from the Assistance Publique but I know I did enquire from some official source and the answer I gave you seems to have been given to me on the best authority. The mistake was probably due to the fact that the charity in question has associated itself with the "Accueil Français" of which I never heard either. If Lucien Descaves is interested in the work it ought to be a good charity, and I will write and ask him about it and will report to Mrs. Warden.

4. Elizabeth Hoyt has arrived and has sent me word that she had brought the six copies of Summer. Thank you so much for thinking of asking her to bring them. I cannot see why single copies cannot be sent by post from America, as I am constantly receiving single books from New-York, and I hope Appleton will have enough initiative to send me some more copies in this way.

August 26th, 1917

Dear Mr. Ledyard,

I have posted a letter to you the day before yesterday enclosing a statement about the "Maisons de Convalescence Américaines" at Croslay and Arromanches.

I have only just discovered that the copy of this statement (which was not made by my own secretary) was not complete, as the houses at Arromanches and also the Dispensary were left out. I therefore send you herewith a second and complete copy, and beg that you will destroy the other. I have added the figures of the American Hostels' Rest-House and Dispensary because they form a part of the "Maisons de Convalescence Américaines" organisation, although their expenses are paid out of the funds of the American Hostels, and I thought it would interest you and Mr. Whitney to see the results achieved by the whole group.

In cabling you the other day on the subject of the houses at Croslay and Arromanches, I put the total number of beds as 185; this was to have been the number, but the Assistance Publique of Paris has sent us ten children less than we had agreed to take as they could give us only beds for adults, and consequently we did not have room for the number of patients originally agreed on.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely

26 Aout 1917

Chère Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre et qu'elle téléphonera à M. Guichard demain matin pour savoir pourquoi Elise doit aller à Paris mercredi, car M. Guichard avait dit à Madame Wharton qu'il enverrait les papiers pour les deux passeports ici.

Veuillez avoir l'obligeance de me dire quelle est la somme du mandat-poste de M. Lichtenberg que Madame Wharton vous a laissé avec la lettre.

Inclus, veuillez trouver un câble que Madame Wharton vous prie d'envoyer, et aussi une lettre adressée à M. Ledyard sur laquelle Madame Wharton vous prie de mettre l'adresse.

J'espère que vous allez toujours bien ainsi que Nicette. Maman va mieux et elle vous envoie son bon souvenir. Veuillez accepter l'expression de mes sentiments les plus sincères.

Fontainebleau

August 27th 1917

Dear Henriette,

Thank you so much for sending the report of the French Reading Room which used to be mine and has become so splendidly yours. I am so glad to see you have such a good group of members and I read with the greatest interest your little annual report. I did not realize that it was founded ten years ago, and your few words being up so many pleasant memories that they seem to bridge over the distance.

I am distressed to find that my donation was forgotten last year, but I can only say that the demands here were so overwhelming that they swept away everything else from one's mind. I enclose herewith a cheque for $100 for last year and this.

When I saw your writing I hoped the envelope would contain a letter from you for I have not heard from you in an age. I know, however, from Adele Kneeland that you are spending this month in town while Kate is taking a course at the hospital. Is she not rather too young to undertake such hard work? I almost hope the hot weather has sent you both back to Stockbridge.

I was so glad to hear of Charlotte Barnes's engagement. She wrote me such a happy letter that I feel sure she has done the right thing in deciding to marry the young man.

It is provoking to have to dictate this letter to you, but I am very tired and have been trying, for the last few weeks, to write as little as possible. I find that three years of continuous work have tired me more than I had realized, and I hope by the end of the year to be able to delegate my work to others and take a complete rest. Meanwhile I am starting in about two weeks for Morocco, where I have been invited by the French Government. The trip will be exceptionally interesting as we shall be the guests of General Lyautey who will, doubtless, show us all that can be seen, and at any rate it will be a complete change of scene and of thoughts.

Do let me hear from you soon, dear Henriette, and with best love to Woody and to the girls, believe me,

ever your affectionate

Fontainebleau,

August 26th 1917

Dear Mrs. Eustis,

I have just received your letter and hope you will excuse
my having to dictate my answer. I am rather over-tired and
have been ordered to take a partial holiday of a few weeks and
to write as little as possible.

With regard to Miss Robbins I cannot offer her any
occupation myself as our Enfants des Flandres are cared for by
the Flemish sisters of charity who were sent with them by the
Belgian Government, and with regard to the American Hostels,
almost effethe children we care for live with their parents,
so that we have no distinct department for child-welfare.

I should suggest to anyone who wishes to come to France
now to apply to the Red-Cross, as they are coordinating all
the different branches of relief work in France, and I know
they are giving a large place to child-welfare. Would it
therefore not be better for Miss Robbins to make her applica-
tion directly to the Red-Cross?

I am sorry not to be able to give you a more satisfactory
reply, but I am convinced that the Red-Cross will soon be in
complete control of relief work in France.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

Mrs. William Eustis
Ellerslie
Rhinecliff N.Y.

August 28th 1917

Dear Mr. Folks,

May I trouble you to transmit an appeal for a Fontainebleau hospital to the Red-Cross Committee which deals with such matters.

The hospital in question is one for ill soldiers. It is a military hospital, of 250 beds, usually all full. I was asked to go and see it by a shopkeeper of Fontainebleau who was distressed of the conditions, and found it, as I have found so many military hospitals in France, lacking of many indispensable things. There is a tuberculosis ward, and when the patients of this ward are well enough to go into the garden they have to sit on hard wooden benches, as there is not a single lounge for them to lie on. There is also most urgent need of head-rests to put behind the pillows of the asthmatic and tubercular patients. The sister in charge tells me she has asked for these things repeatedly but has never been able to get them.

There is another much more serious point. The hospital is in a barrack, and in French barracks there is never any plumbing in the building. There is a ward for dysentery in this hospital and there is not a single w.c. or bath in the building. I found military conditions at the typhoid fever hospital at Chalons in the beginning of the war, and raised funds to fit it out with proper sanitation. Would it not be possible for the Red-Cross to do the same in this case? The sisters in charge are in desperate over the conditions, but on the part of the doctors there is the usual military indifference to such matters.

Excuse my troubling you with this, but I feel as if our Red-Cross were meant to be used in just such cases.

Yours sincerely

Monsieur H. Folks
50, rue de Bassano
Paris.

August 28th 1917

Dear Mrs. Corbin,

Thank you so much for your note.

I am delighted to hear that you are going to be with Miss Nott at Chalons. The job will be far more interesting than any I could have offered you and I look forward to seeing you, and hearing all about it, on your first return to Paris.

When I was in town the other day I hoped to be able to telephone you, but as usual a number of unexpected things awaited me there and I had not one minute free before the hour of leaving

I hope very much to see you some day at Châlons, and meanwhile please remember me most warmly to Miss Nott and Miss Mitchell, and also Miss Worthington if she has joined them. All my good wishes for your success, but don't over work.

Yours sincerely

P.S.- I forget whether I told you that I am leaving for Morocco in about two weeks. I expect to be gone about two months and to have a real holiday.

Madame John Corbin
36, rue Pont de Marne
Chalons sur Marne.

August 28th, 1917

Dear Dr. Mercelis,

I have to thank you for two kind letters, and for two
splendid cheques for the American Hostels, one of 2.257, 75 frs.
and the other of 5.738, 50. It is wonderful to me that Montclair
should be able to spare so much for the Hostels after the
enormous sums raised there for the Red-Cross, and I am distressed
to have delayed so long to acknowledge such splendid a gift. But
I have been trying to rest for the last two months, and my
correspondence has been so overwhelming since we entered into the
war that I progress but slowly in answering my letters. I can
only hope that you and the Committee will excuse me, and will
understand how grateful I am in spite of my delay in writing.

With regard to the Lisle Ramsay Memorial, I will of
course write at once to thank Mr. Wylie and to tell him how much
I appreciate this special donation.

I am also writing to thank Miss Chevalier for her most
generous gift of 2.257, 75 francs. How interesting to know that
it should be the result of the sale of her crucible! I am going
to tell her that I have doubted it to give the money to our house
for tuberculous refugee women and children at Croslay, as I should
like her name to be associated with that particular part of my
work, which has been so successful and has given help and happiness
to so many homeless people.

Thank you also with all my heart for the good news that
so many shoes and stockings are sent to us, as well as three cases
of clothing. Since I have known Miss Schroeder I am not surprised
at all the good things that come from Montclair, for she is
certainly one of the best!

Thank you again for everything, dear Dr. Mercelis, and
believe me,

Yours very sincerely

P.S.- I transmitted your donation to the Tuberculous War-Victims Committee, and no doubt the Treasurer has acknowledged it. Let me add my gratitude here.

3 Septembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous
remettre ci-inclus un chèque de 155
francs représentant le total des
dépenses de Madame Ramade pour le
mois d'Août.

Mlle Denouille
Chalet St Clément
31, rue Aristide Danvin
Merck-Plage

4 Septembre 1917

Madame la Présidente,

Je vous remercie de votre aimable lettre en réponse à
la demande que je vous avais adressée au sujet de la famille
Dimoff.

Malheureusement le cas de cette famille ne rentre pas
dans la catégorie des malheureux dont l'Accueil Franco-Américain
s'occupe; mais je me permets de vous demander de bien vouloir
leur faire remettre la somme de cinquante francs que je vous
envoie ci-inclus.

Morsque je vous ai fait écrire j'ignorais que vous étiez
la Présidente de la Croix-Rouge à Nancy, et je m'excuse de vous
avoir envoyé une lettre tellement impersonnelle.

Je vous remercie de nouveau de votre si aimable réponse,
et je vous prie, Madame la Présidente, de croire à mes sentiments
les meilleurs et les plus distingués.

Madame la Marquise d'Eyragues
Présidente de la Croix Rouge Française
(Secours aux Blessés Militaires)
27, Place de la Carrière
Nancy.

Fontainebleau,

September 4th 1917

Dear Dr. White,

I was in Paris for a few hours yesterday and had a long
talk with Mr. Folks about the American Hostels.

I told Mr. Folks frankly that I thought the Hostels should
be visited by one of the leading representatives of the American
Red Cross. The organisation is, I believe, the most extensive
American charity in Paris, and certainly the most comprehensive
in its aims, and it seems to me that, three months after the
arrival of the American Red Cross in Paris, a charity of this kind,
which has been in existence since November 19th, should have been
inspected by an expert. one of the heads of the mission

I have been anxious for some time to show you the Hostels,
but, as you know, I preferred not doing so in August as the
machinery was partly suspended owing to the absence of so many of
our helpers; but now, if you could spare the time, I should greatly
like to have you make a short tour of inspection before I leave
on the 15th, as Mrs. Tyler wished very much to go with you, and it
is only fair to her as the organisation is so largely due to her,
that she should explain its working to you. I know she means to
ask you to go with her soon and this is only a word to say that I
hope you will be able to find time to do so.

I saw Mr. Simmons yesterday and asked him to say a word to
you about the possibility of the members of the "Tuberculeux de la
Guerre Committee" being given the privilege of recommending patients
for a certain number of beds in the Sanatoria after their transfer
to the Red Cross. This privilege might, perhaps, be vested in
the Officers of the former Committee, to whom the other members
could recommend patients; but I threw this out only as a suggestion.
In any case, the Red Cross will perhaps feel disposed to make such
a proposal itself to our retiring Committee.

There are one or two points of detail regarding Leysin that
I should like to speak to you about, and perhaps we can make an
appointment when we meet at the Committee to-morrow.

Yours very sincerely

Fontainebleau,

September 4th, 1917

Dear Mademoiselle Chaptal,

Many thanks for your letter of Aug. 28th, telling me
to apply to Monsieur Mesureur for the bed in the baraquements de
la Ville de Paris. I shall do so at once, and if you happen to
see him perhaps you will kindly say a word in favour of Mme
Lemaire.

With regard to the Tuberculeux de la Guerre and the
Red Cross, I am convinced that, apart from any financial problems
which future might present, it is wise for us to associate
our efforts with that of the Rockefeller Foundation?. It is what
I have always aimed at from the beginning, as you know, and it is
a great satisfaction to me to think that our work will be merged
with so far-reaching a plan of relief.

I look forward to seeing you at our meeting to-morrow.

I am leaving on the 15th for a trip of several weeks
in Morocco, where I have been invited to go by General Lyautey.
I am looking forward very much to the opportunity of seeing the
country in so delightful a way, and the complete change of scene
will give me a better chance to rest than my villégiature at
Fontainebleau.

Yours very sincerely

4 Septembre 1917

Monsieur le Président,

Mademoiselle Chaptal me conseille de m'adresser à vous personnellement pour vous demander si les baraquements de la Ville de Paris sont ouverts, et si vous consentiriez d'y accueillir une pauvre femme de Tourcoing dont la maladie est trop avancée pour que nous puissions la recevoir à notre Maison de Convalescence à Groslay.

J'avais demandé à Mademoiselle Chaptal de l'hospitaliser dans la maison qu'elle installe pour les femmes gravement atteintes de tuberculose; mais elle me répond que cette maison ne sera prête que l'hiver prochain, et la situation de Madame Lemaire est tellement pénible, et elle a un tel besoin de recevoir des soins dans un sanatorium, que je me permets de la recommander particulièrement à votre bienveillance.

Je vous remercie-inclus le diagnostic du Dr. Hulot, le médecin de notre Dispensaire, et vous prie, Monsieur le Président, de croire à mes sentiments les plus distingués.

Monsieur Mesureur.

4 Septembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre du 22 écoulé, annonçant que vous alliez lui renvoyer les 24 exemplaires du "Book of the Homeless", que vous n'avez malheu-reusement pas pu vendre.

Madame Wharton vous remercie d'avoir bien voulu vous occuper de cette vente, et elle me charge de vous dire qu'elle a reçu les livres.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Monsieur H.Floury
I, Bd. des Capucines
Paris.

September 4th 1917

Dear Mrs. Fenno,

I have just heard from Sally Norton
the good news that you have sent me a
box of clothes for women and little
girls, and I want to thank you at once
and to tell you what a help it is to us
good clothing for our refugees.

to get

It is pleasant to have an excuse for
writing to you and reminding you of my
existence. I know how indefatigably you
have worked for France ever since the
beginning of the war, and I wish your work
might have brought you here, and that I
might have had the pleasure of collaborating with you.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely and gratefully

Mrs.LL.Fenno
Rowley Mass.

5 Septembre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous remettre ci-inclus les 25 francs qu'elle vous alloue mensuellement, et elle vous prie de bien vouloir lui en accuser réception.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes salutations empressées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Madame Denebourg
7, avenue de la Liberté
Bécon les Bruyères

Fontainebleau,

September 5th 1917

Dear Winifred,

I have just received your note as I
am rushing up to Paris for a Committee
Meeting.

I have never had the keys of the
trunks in question, and I think it is
better to have the locks unscrewed; but if
the room in which the trunks are has no
lock that presents a difficulty.

Could you come in and see me at rue
de Varenne to-morrow morning at II o'clock?
Please telephone me in the morning when
you go out, as there might be some reason
to prevent my seeing you at that hour,
though I know of none at present.

In any case I shall be in Paris all
next week, as I do not leave for Morocco
until the evening of the 15th.

Yours affectionately

Miss Power-Schroeder.
Ibis, avenue Carnot
Paris.

Fontainebleau,

7 Septembre 1917

Cher Monsieur,

Je vous remercie beaucoup de l'envoi du chèque et je viens vous demander la permission de le consacrer entièrement ce mois-ci, aux "Maisons de Convalescence Américaines", dont les fonds sont très réduits en ce moment-ci.

Je vais demander à M. Ponroy également de me permettre
de distraire son don de la caisse des Hostels et des Enfants
des Flandres.

Notre Comité d'avant-hier s'est très bien passé, et
on a voté à l'unanimité l'annexion de l'Oeuvre des Tuberculeux
de la Guerre à la Croix-Rouge Américaines. Cette décision est
la seule que comportait notre situation actuelle. Toute question
d'argent à part, les problèmes de la vie matérielle, — trans-
ports, approvisionnements, main d'Oeuvre — augmentent tellement
en ce moment-ci que seule une organisation aussi puissante que
la Croix-Rouge Américaine pourra faire face à de telles diffi-
cultés.

Depuis le retour de Mrs. Tyler j'ai beaucoup causé avec
elle, et avec M. Berry, de la possibilité de faire annexer l'Ac-
cueil à la Croix-Rouge. Le problème du transport des médecins,
des denrées et des vêtements pour toutes nos maisons, est devenu
tellement aigu que je ne sais pas comment le résoudre sans l'ap-
pui de notre Croix-Rouge. D'autre part, je me rends compte que,
par principe, sans doute, ils ne veulent pas s'engager à rendre
de tels services à une Oeuvre à moins que celle-ci soit incorpo-
rée à la Croix-Rouge. Ils m'ont déjà dit que si je préférais
une simple affiliation, ils m'accorderaient une subvention de
10.000 francs par mois pour six mois; c'est très peu de chose, et
celà n'apporte pas de solution à la question du transport. Dans
ces conditions, j'ai cru devoir demander au Comité de la Croix-
Rouge s'ils accepteraient d'annexer notre Oeuvre, en s'entendant
avec nous, si possible, pour que l'organisation actuelle continue
à fonctionner, tout en étant, sous certains rapports, soumise
à la surveillance générale de la Croix-Rouge. J'aurais voulu vous

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en parler, et aussi à M. Del Marmol, mais comme je pars le 15
pour le Maroc, je n'ai pas osé attendre plus longtemps de peur
que d'autres œuvres prennent les devants et que nous perdions
l'occasion de nous entendre avec la Croix-Rouge. Je n'ai pas
encore eu de réponse mais je pense en avoir avant mon départ,
et si elle est favorable, peut-être pourrons-nous laisser tout
à l'état actuel jusqu'à mon retour.

J'écris aujourd'hui dans ce même sens à M. Del Marmol,
ne sachant pas si je le trouverai à Paris à mon retour la
semaine prochaine.

J'espère que vous avez profité de votre séjour à Tres-
traou pour vous reposer complètement et que celà vous aura fait
beaucoup de bien. Rappelez-moi, je vous prie, au bon souvenir
de Madame Boccon-Gibod, et croyez à mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Monsieur Boccon-Gibod
Grand Hotel de la Plage
Trestraou par Perros-Guirec
Côtes du Nord.

Fontainebleau,

7 Septembre 1917

Cher Monsieur,

Depuis le retour de Mrs. Tyler j'ai beaucoup causé avec elle, et avec M. Berry, de la possibilité de faire annexer l'Accueil à la Croix-Rouge Américaine. Le problème du transport des médecins, des denrées et des vêtements pour toutes nos maisons, est devenu tellement aigu que je ne sais pas comment le résoudre sans l'appui de notre Croix-Rouge. D'autre part, je me rens compte que, par principe, sans doute, ils ne veulent pas s'engager à rendre de tels services à une Oeuvre à moins que celle-ci soit incorporée à la Croix-Rouge. Ils m'ont déjà dit que si je préferais une simple affiliation, ils m'accorderaient une subvention de 10.000 francs par mois pour six mois; c'est très peu de chose, et celà n'apporte pas de solution à la question du transport. Dans ces conditions, j'ai cru devoir demander au Comité de la Croix-Rouge s'ils accepteraient d'annexer notre Oeuvre, en s'entendant avec nous, si possible, pour que l'organisation actuelle continue à fonctionner, tout en étant, sous certains rapports, soumise à la surveillance générale de la Croix-Rouge. J'aurais voulu vous en parler avant de faire cette démarche, ainsi qu'à M. Boccon-Gibod; mais comme je ne sais pas si vous êtes encore de retour et comme je pars pour le Maroc le 15 de ce mois, je n'ai pas osé attendre plus longtemps de peur que d'autres oeuvres prennent les devants et que nous perdions l'occasion de nous enten dire avec la Croix-Rouge. Je n'ai pas encore eu de réponse, mais je pense en avoir avant mon départ, et si elle est favorable, peut-être pourrons-nous laisser tout à l'état actuel jusqu'à mon retour.

J'écris aujourd'hui même dans ce même sens à M. Boccon Gibod, ne sachant pas si je le trouverai à Paris à mon retour la semaine prochaine.

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J'espère que vous et Madame del Marmol avez profité de
vos vacances et que j'aurai le plaisir de vous voir à Paris
avant le 15.

Croyez, je vous prie, cher Monsieur, à mes sentiments
les meilleurs.

Monsieur del Marmol.

December 5th 1917

Monsieur Griggs
Secrétaire de Monsieur de Piessac
Cabinet du Sous-Secrétaire
d'État au Service de Santé

Dear Mr. Griggs,

In going over my list of applicants in the light of
your kind suggestions I find a new difficulty as to the "répartition
of the medals,

You say: "Silver medals for chefs d'emploi, and bronze
for subordinates." But the difficulty is that, in my four bid
organisations, the Tuberculeux de la Guerre, the American Hostels
for Refugees (Accueil Franco-Américain aux Réfugiés), the Maisons
de Convalescence Américaines, and the Oeuvre des Enfants des
Flandres, there are such an immense number of chefs d'emploi that
it is very hard for me to discriminate without neglecting some
collaborators whose work deserves recognition.

The Tuberculeux de la Guerre has passed out of my hands
into that of the Red Cross; but the three other organisations employ
so large a number of faithful and intelligent workers that it would
be impossible to give the silver medal to two or three and omit the
others.

In America a similar difficulty arises. My idea was
to give the gold medal to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones,
head of my New York Committee, who has raised over 500,000 francs,
for me since the beginning of the war, and to Miss S. Fairchild,
head of my Boston Committee, who started the whole "Tuberculeux"
movement for me in Massachusetts.

Mrs. Robert Grant, Mrs. Dudley Pickman, Mrs. Bayard Thayer
of Boston, have all taken an equally active part in raising money in
Boston for the American Hostels and for the Oeuvre des Enfants des
Flandres, and Dr. E. Mercelis, head of my Committee in New Jersey, and
Miss Estella Neuhaus (by giving concerts all over the country) have
brought me in hundreds of thousands of francs.

In the circumstances I think it best to send in a

December 6th 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that she has received an invitation from the Women's War Relief Corps to an entertainment for American Officers to be held on December 8th at 7D, rue Jouffroy?

Mrs. Wharton has much pleasure in accepting this invitation, but she would be glad to know what she is expected to do with the seven similar envelopes which are enclosed in the same envelope. If they are meant to be sent to American Officers, she will be very glad to do so.

Believe me,

Yours truly

Secretary.

Women's War Relief Corps
5, rue François Ier
Paris.

December 6th 1917

Dear Elisina,

In reference to the low state of our Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres funds, and now that Dr. Reeder has visited the Enfants des Flandres houses, might it not be well to point out to Mr. Folks that when Mr. Endicott and his group began their inspection of refugee work in Paris, I sent Mr. Endicott a full report of the expenses and needs of the Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres, and at the same time begged him to visit our houses himself or to delegate someone to do so?

I know that at the time they were visiting all of Mrs. Mrs. Bliss's Enfants de la Frontière, but it was impossible for me to induce any of these gentlemen to go and see a single one of our houses, or to take the least interest in the work we were doing. As you know, I have struggled on since then by means of small sums given from time to time by individual helpers, and it seems unfair that the Red Cross should have given assistance to one group, and should completely ignore another which is doing exactly the same kind of work with much less money at its disposal.

Now that the Red Cross has at last inspected our house, I think it might be well to call their attention to this marked difference in their treatment of two kindred charities,

Yours affectionately

Mrs. Royall Tyler
2I, Quai Bourbon
Paris.

December 7th 1917

Dear Mr. Robinson,

I have received a few days ago a letter from my sister-in-law, Mrs. Jones, telling me that you proposed in future sending to the American Red Cross in Paris, $1,000 a month which you have hitherto sent to me. On receipt of this letter I cabled at once to my sister-in-law asking you to suspend your decision until you received this letter.

Before coming to the point I must tell you once, more that, whatever decision you reach, your financial help and the faith of the good results of my work, have done more than anything else to keep my courage up since the day of August 1914 when you stopped at my door and handed to my maid the first of so many generous gifts.

And now to business. In the first place I understand from my sister-in-law that one of your reasons for giving to the Red Cross is that they are incorporated and we are not. The two charities for which I still need help, namely the "American Convalescent Homes" for refugee women and children, and the "Children of Flanders Rescue Committee" were both incorporated according to French laws as soon as they were founded. I do not know if this is sufficient for your purpose, but if it is I can send you the documentary proofs at once.

Now with regard to the Red Cross: if you should give them $1,000 and ask them to hand over $500 to me, I have little doubt that they would do so; but before deciding to give them anything will you kindly read the enclosed letter which I am sending to them in a few days? It is with the most reluctance that I have decided to write this letter, but their outrageous negligence, to call it by no worse name, in the management of the "Tuberculeux de la Guerre", which we handed over to them last July on the recommendation of our New-York Committee, has excited so much general criticism from the French members of our Committee, that I feel I owe it to our poor tuberculous patients and to the public in America to let the Red Cross methods here be known.

I do not think I need add any comments to what you are about to read.

Believe me, dear Mr. Robinson,
always gratefully yours

7 Décembre 1917

Cher Monsieur,

Je vous remercie de votre mot, mais
je ne vous ai pas téléphoné parce que vous
m'aviez laissé entendre au vous étiez trop
occupé pour que j'osasse vous déranger.

Malheureusement, je ne suis pas libre
demain après-midi; mais j'au directement
du Colonel House et du Général Pershing les
quelques renseignement que je voulais vous
demander pour ma conférence.

Veuillez croire, je vous prie, cher
Monsieur, à mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Monsieur André Tardieu
Ministère des Affaires
Etrangères
Paris.

6 Décembre 1917

Monsieur le Directeur
de la Société d'Assurances Mutuelles
8, rue Boissy d'Anglas
Paris.

Monsieur le Directeur,

J'ai bien reçu votre lettre du 4 Décembre, me prévenant que votre Conseil d'Administration vient de prendre un bail avec la Société de la Croix-Rouge Américaine pour le rez-de-chaussée de votre immeuble, et qu'en conséquence la Garderie et le Dispensaire de l'Oeuvre des "American Hostels" ne seront plus hospitalisés chez vous.

Je vous remercie de cet avis, mais comme notre Oeuvre fait partie de la Croix-Rouge Américaine, les locaux en question restent à notre disposition.

Veuillez, je vous prie, Monsieur/le Directeur, transmettre à votre Comité Directeur l'expression de ma sincère reconnaissance pour l'hospitalité gracieusement offerte jusqu'à présent/ à mon Oeuvre, et recevoir l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

7 Décembre 1917

Madame,

J'ai reçu votre lettre du 3 courant, m'apprenant que vous avez pris la décision, vous et Mademoiselle Cahen, de vous retirer de l'Oeuvre des American Hostels.

Je vous prie, de ma part, et de la part de notre ancien Comité, d'accepter tous nos remerciements pour le concours dévoué que vous avez, vous et Mademoiselle Cahen, apporté depuis si longtemps à l'Oeuvre.

Madame Cahen
8, rue déAnjou
Paris.

7 Décember 1917

Dear Miss Weeks,

Miss Fisher, an American lady who has
been very generous in helping me with my work,
is anxious to bring out a cousin or niece of
hers, who wishes to do canteen work. She
describes the young lady as being very active
and capable of hard work and of enduring
hardship. She spent a good deal of time in
France and speaks French fairly well, and
Miss Fisher thinks she will do her part well
in canteen work.

Will you propose her to the ladies
with whom you are going to work and let me
know as soon as possible if they need any one
of the kind?

Miss Fisher is kindness itself and
would not, I think, recommend anyone who was
not suited for the work; but of course I take
no personal responsibility in the matter, as
I do not know the young lady.

Believe me,
Yours sincerely

3.

7 Décembre 1917

Madame Desprez

215bis, avenue de Bry
Le Perreux.

Madame,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous accuser
réception de votre lettre du 17 écoulé, et
vous serait très obligée de bien vouloir
lui envoyer la liste des vêtements que la
famille Henneuse aurait besoin.

Madame Wharton va se charger elle-même
de procurer, dans la mesure du possible, les
vêtements demandés, mais comme elle fait ceci
à titre *tout à fait exceptionnel*, elle me
charge de vous demander de ne pas l'ébruiter.
Son Oeuvre est tellement assaillie de toutes
parts que le vestiaire ne peut subvenir qu'aux
besoins des réfugiés actuellement inscrits
au bureau, et elle ne peut malheureusement
pas répondre à toutes les demandes qui lui
sont adressées.

Veuillez donc avoir la bonté de m'envoyer
à l'adresse ci-dessus la liste en question
que je remettrai à Madame Wharton qui verra
ce qu'elle peut faire pour vos protégés.

Agréez, Madame, mes salutations les plus
distinguées.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

II Décembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous remercier
de votre lettre, et de vous dire qu'elle croit
que les objets des Champs Elysées vont être
rapportés directement à son Ouvroir.

Madame Wharton vous serait très obligée
si vous vouliez venir déta après-midi, ou mer-
credi matin, à son Ouvroir, pour mettre les
prix à tous les objets faits par votre cours
de la rue de la Santé.

Veuillez croire, Mademoiselle, à l'exprim-
sion de mes sentiments distingués.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Mademoiselle Dumaine
5, rue du Regard
Paris.

"France embodies all of loveliness and all of valor; beauty is her handmaiden and strength her shield-bearer; and the shining courage of her daughters has matched the courage of her dauntless sons. For three and a half terrible years she has walked high of heart through the valley of the shadow. Her body is in torture, but her forehead is slight with the beauty of the morning. Never in all history has there been such steadfast loyalty in the doing of dangerous duty, such devotion to country, such splendor of service and of sacrifice. And great shall be her reward, for she has saved the soul of the world."

Address by Theodore Roosevelt at dinner of the Pennsylvania Society for the French Ambassador December 8, 1917.

December 7th 1917

Dear Mr. Ledyard,

I enclose herewith a letter which I am about to send to Major Murphy, head of the Red Cross in France. It is addressed to Mr. Folks, who, as you know, is the head of the department of Civilian Relief.

The last five or six months have, in some respects, been the unhappiest of my life. We handed over our tuberculosis Sanatoria to the Red Cross in compliance with your advice and Mr. Maynard's and in the full belief that you were right in advising us to do so, and that the Red Cross could not only give more efficient management than we could obtain, but control sums of money beyond our reach.

A few weeks' experience of Dr. White's extraordinary methods filled me with apprehension, but I hope against hope and imagined that he would be put in his proper place by the heads of the organisation. Instead, he and the other tuberculosis doctors seem to control the situation, and it would take many pages to tell you the gradual improvement of our environment and the bitter criticisms to which I have been subjected by the French members of our Committee who could not understand my submitting to such treatment at the beginning, or my being unable, since then, to obtain proper care for our patients.

Thank heaven I resist their attempt to get Croslay away from us; I only wish I could get back the money and the property at Yerres, for the indignation against the Red Cross is so general here among Americans that I feel almost sure that if I was still in control of the Sanatoria I could raise money enough to run them.

I will ask you to say nothing to anyone but my sister in law until you hear from me that I have sent my letter to the Red Cross. You cannot think how grateful I am to you and Mr. Whitney for enabling me to keep Croslay.

Yours very sincerely

14 Décembre 1917

Chère Mademoiselle,

Je m'excuse d'être obligée de dicter ce petit mot au
galop. Je vichs de voir Mme de Laumont qui s'occupe d'organi-
ser aux Etats Unis une grande exécution d'objets français
destinés à être vendus en gros aux Etats Unis. Cette exposi-
tion serait uniquement pour prendre des commandes. Je vais
envoyer les deux Saintes qui ne sont pas encore vendues, et
Mme de Laumont me propose d'envoyer aussi des papiers de et
des dentelles. Malheureusement il me faudrait ces papiers
dans huit jours, mais je vais demander à Madame Bliss de me
donner ceux qu'elle a, pris et que vous pourrez remplacer.

Si vous pouvez faire exécuter quelques autres papiers
d'ici là, faites-le; mais il faudrait que ceux que nous en-
voyons soient soigneusement faits, par conséquent il ne faut
pas trop presser les enfants.

Je vous envoie un de mes livres de l'année dernière
pour vous rappeler un papier que je trouve très joli pour le
grand format. Je vous prie de bien vouloir me le renvoyer
quand vous aurez relevé le dessin. J'envie aussi un petit
volume dont le papier est également très joli. Je m

Je me charge de demander moi-même à Mme Bliss de nous
céder ses papiers; si vous voulez encore quelques détails,
voulez-vous avoir la bonté de me donner un coup de téléphone.

Veuillez croire, chère Mademoiselle, à mes sentiments
les meilleurs.

Mademoiselle Dumaine
5, rue du Regard
Paris/

14 Décembre 1917

Dear Miss Trevelyan,

I have your letter, and wish I could help you in the
matter; but I have already transmitted offers of our villas
to the American Red Cross without any result.

May I suggest that your friends should write directly
to Major Perkins, American Red Cross, 4, place de la Concorde,
Paris, making the suggestion themselves? I know their splendid
villa, and of course nothing could be more perfectly adapted
to the purpose for which they so generously offer it. I think
by this time the Red Cross affairs are better organized than
when I transmitted the offers of my friends, and I have little
doubt that they would be only too glad to accept; but I should
prefer their writing themselves.

I am surprised that our friends the Jacques Emile are
still lingering at Offranville, for it must be rather damp and
dreary there at present, and I have been expecting to see them
back.

With many thanks for writing to me about the villa,

Yours very sincerely

P.S.- Please excuse my having to dictate this note.

National Institute of Arts and Letters

A. H. THORNDIKE, Secretary

Address:
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK

Mrs. Edith Wharton,
c-o Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York.

My dear Mrs. Wharton:

The committee on nominations of the National Institute of Arts and Letters has proposed your name for membership in the Institute. Under our rules your name will now be voted upon by the members of the Institute. I am writing to ask you whether you are willing that your name should go before our membership.

It is customary for me to ask this question of all persons nominated, but perhaps I should explain that there is a special reason in your case. Although there is no clause in our constitution limiting the membership to men, I believe that there has up to the present time been but one woman member, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. The nomination committee for the present year has proposed Mrs. Margaret Deland and Mrs. Mary Wilkins Freeman as well as yourself for admission. I imagine that our membership is divided on the advisability of admitting women, although I am sure that all would agree that, if women are to be admitted, the three nominated will certainly be selected.

I hope you will excuse this rather long statement of what is probably not a matter of much importance. Unless you refuse, I shall have the honor of presenting your name to the members of the Institute.

18 Décembre 1917

Monsieur,

Je vous envoie ci-joint la demande de
sauf-conduit temporaire de la Préfecture
de Police en vous priant de bien vouloir
expliquer que, si je demande un sauf-conduit
pour mes deux voitures, c'est qu'une d'elles
est très vieille, et peu apte à faire un
service régulier, et que je m'en sers pour
suppléer à l'autre en cas d'accident.

Je n'ai qu'un chauffeur, et jamais
je ne me sers en même temps de mes deux
automobiles.

Avec messkremerciements anticipés,
je vous prie, Monsieur, de croire à l'assu-
rance de mes sentiments très distingués.

17 Décembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'elle s'occupe de vous et qu'elle écrit à nouveau à l'Oeuvre "Mon Soldat" à votre sujet.

Madame Wharton vous a envoyé un paquet le mois dernier, et elle espère que vous l'avez reçu.

Madame Wharton ne comprend pas pourquí vous insistez à demander une marraine Américaine, ce qui peut vous faire du tort auprès d'une œuvre Française. Elle veut bien se charger de vous faire avoir une marraine, mais ne veut pas insister sur la nationalité de cette dernière.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire

Monsieur Fargeau
47ème Artillerie
3ème Section de Parc
Secteur 181

18 Décembre 1917

Monsieur le Directeur Général Générale
Ministère de l'Intérieur
Paris.

Monsieur le Directeur,

J'ai l'honneur de solliciter de votre bienveillance
un permis de circuler en automobile en Seine et Oise et Seine
et Marne, au nom de mon chauffeur, Charles Cook, pour le
landaulet 24 HP Hotchkiss N° 8914 I, et le petit landaulet 12
HP Panhard N° 3238 E.

Présidente de l'Oeuvre de l'Accueil Franco-Américain
aux Réfugiés Belges et Français", (63 Champs Elysées), de
l'Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres" et des "Maisons de Convales
cence Américaines" ( 21, Quai de Bourbon), et fondatrice d'un
Ouvroir (254, Bd.St Germain), qui a fait travailler une moyenne
de 50 ouvrières parisiennes depuis le 16 Août 1914, j'ai sous
ma surveillance onze maisons à Paris, cinq dans la banlieue, en
Seine et Oise, et trois à Arromanches, en Calvados.

L'Accueil Franco Américain et l'Oeuvre des Enfants des
Flandres s'occupent d'une façon permanente de 5.000 réfugiés,
principalement français des pays envahis, et les Maisons de
Convalescence à Groslay et Arromanches hospitalisent 190 malades,
dont 50 nous sont confiés par l'Assistance Publique de Paris.

En outre, le Ministère de l'Intérieur vient de nous demander de créer, à ses frais, trois maisons de convalescence sur le modèle de nos Maisons de Convalescence de Groslay et d'Arromanches. Ces maisons seront situées soit en Seine et Marne, soit en Seine et Oise, non loin de Groslay, et il me faudra les surveillance, ainsi que les autres dont je suis déjà chargée.

Je pense, Monsieur le Directeur, avoir suffisamment justifié ma demande en vous énumérant les Oeuvres que j'ai fondées et dont je n'ai cessé de m'occuper depuis le début de la guerre.

En vous remerciant d'avance, je vous prie, Monsieur le
Directeur, de recevoir l'assurance de ma haute considération.

20 Décembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'el
le a écrit au Docteur Jacquin la semaine
dernière ppeur lui demander la permission
de garder ses photographies encore quelques
jours.

N'ayant eu aucune réponse à son petit
bleu, elle n'a pas renvoyé les photographies
de peur que vous avez fait une erreur en
lui envoyant l'adresse. Vous lui avez
donné 8 ou 9, rue Angèle Vérieux, Neuilly,
et elle a copié l'adresse exactement.

Si vous avez l'occasion de voir le
Docteur Jacquin, voulez-vous lui demander
si Madame Wharton peut faire porter les
photographies, et voulez-vous avoir la
bonté d'envoyer à nouveau à Madame Wharton
l'adresse exacte?

Veuillez croire, Monsieur, à l'as-
surance de mes sentiments distingués.

Pour Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Morton Fullerton Esqr
8, rue du Mont Thabor
Paris.

20 Décembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton s'excuse de ne pas pouvoir vous écrire elle-même, mais les préparatifs de Noël lui occasionne un surcroît de travail, et elle tient à vous remercier immédiatement de votre généreux don de 100 francs pour les chaussures des enfants des Flandres qu'elle vient de recevoir.

En même temps elle me charge de vous dire de ne pas vous préoccuper des quelques vêtements en trop qui vous ont été envoyés de la vente de la semaine dernière. Cette erreur a été causée par une des dames vendeuses qui a remis un paquet en trop à votre femme de chambre, mais Madame Wharton sait que vous ferez le meilleur usage possible de ces vêtements, et elle est trop heureuse de vous les offrir. Du reste, elle a reçu depuis un don de vêtements d'enfants qui lui permet de le faire sans léser les intérêts des enfants des Flandres!

Madame Wharton vous envoie son plus affectueux souvenir, et elle vous remercie de vive voix dès qu'elle aura pu louer une voiture à cheval.

Veuillez recevoir, Mademoiselle, l'assurance de mes sentiments respectueux.

Pour Madame Wharton:

Secrétaire

Mademoiselle Reubell
4, avenue Gabriel
Paris.

December 21st 1917

Dear Minnie,

Your letter of December 5th came yesterday and I will begin my answer by thanking you for liking so much my article on France. I am glad to hear it is talked about in America for I hoped very much it would attract attention from the point of view of conducing to a better understanding of the French character by our compatriots. It is for the same reason that I have agreed to give the lecture on America in the series of the "Société des Conférences" next February — I who have never uttered a word in public, even in my own tongue!

Thank you very much for sending me the documents about the fair. I am sorry that when you wrote the results promised less well than you had expected; but from my point of view § 2.000 seems a decent sum for our stall so soon after the country has been sucked dry by the Red Cross. Thank you again with all my heart for all you are doing, and privately and personally, than you for the charming thought of sending me a little chinese object from our very own stall; that was delightful of you and I look forward impatiently to its arrival. My fondest thanks also for the new Social Register.

I am sorry to have to jump back at once to business, but as poor Elisina has been utterly unable to get together the figures and anecdotes for the report, I think it best to ask you to publish the enclosed letter, or to send it to all our American contributors as you think best. At any rate if you publish it in the New York papers please send it to Dudley Pickman and ask him to do the same in Boston, and if you prefer to send it in the form of a circular, please see that Dudley Pickman, and Dr. Mercelis at Orange, and Nathalie Boyonton in Washington, all receive copies at the same time, so that they may distribute it to the persons who have contributed through them. By the way, Nathalie's address is simply: The Burlington, Washington.

And now I will proceed by numbers.

I. How kind of Mrs. Ally Whitney to offer us the proceeds of her exhibition of sculpture! I will write at once to thank her. And how very good of Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Iselin to help you in the arrangement of our booth. I have just had a letter from Pauline Robinson, enclosing a list of the ladies who sold at it and they seem more numerous than the stars in the sky. I

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should never be able to write to them individually, so I am sending a general cable of thanks to Pauline.

2. Thanks for the cheque for $50 sent to me by Miss Pattee, through Miss Neuhaus. I will try to write to her without fail next week. Miss Neuhaus is more and more wonderful and I only hope the little bead work beg made by a soldier which I sent her in your care last week.

3. Thank you for calling my attention to Miss Kerrigan She looks very pleasant in her photograph and I have little doubt that we shall be able to give her a place in one of the new sanatoria which Elisina and I are preparing for the Ministry of the Interior.

4. I cannot think how it is possible that people should think that the Red Cross has taken over all our work after the very definite statement I sent you to be published in the papers two or three months ago. Is it possible that you never received it? I suppose we ought to number our letters for I feel sure that some are lost on both sides. With regard to the Red Cross, since I sent my letter of December 7th to Mr. Robinson and Lewis Ledyard, I think they have found out what we thought of them, for they are making hasty efforts to ammend their many negligences and shortcomings. I have just had a letter from M. Gestin, head of the "Société de Bienfaisance" at Leysin, who tells me that since he wrote to M. Boislille, the letter of which I quoted a paragraph to Mr. Robinson and Ledyard, the money owing by the Red Cross has been paid and some clothing has been given to the men, though not enough to keep them warm at night. When I think of the sum of money we handed over to them I am beside myself with indignation; but as M. Gestin says that they have partly remedied the situation I shall have to modify my letter to Mr. Folks, and I shall therefore not send it till next week. I have cabled Mr. Robinson and Ledyard to consider the copies I sent them as absolutely confidential.

5. I am much distressed to find that Clem March's contri-
butions were omitted from the list of fonations which you publish-
ed in last year's report. I think the mistake must have occurred
in printing the proofs in America, for my secretary and I are both
sure that his contributions figured on the list we sent to you. We
have a copy here, of course, but as I am distating this in haste
to catch the valise there is no time to look ip up this evening,
and I will therefore wait until next week. Next week also I will
send you by the valise the fullest possible reports of Edith
Wharton's War Charities, to December 1st 1917, with the full list
of contributions received directly here. To do so before Christmas
was perfectly impossible; the difficulty of getting about, the

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incessant calls on both Elisina and myself, the degree to which
our work has developed, the perpetual influx of Americans bringing
letters to me, and the fact that Miss Herbert has been ill for
sometime past have all contributed to delay the work, which only
Elisina and I can do. But next week there will be a comparative
lull and I hope the report will be satisfactory.

As for the individual pathetic stories it is hard for us
here, on the edge of this awful tragedy, to understand why people in
America do not understand that we are too busy to collect anecdotes
We work all day long every day trying to help as many people as we
can, and until the horizon lightens it will be hard to see talking
and collect anecdotes.

By the way, you do not enclose the little statement which
you say you have sent to the people who thought that the Red Cross
has assumed all our charities; but at any rate, it is probably just
as well for me to re-state this, pending the appearance of our
report.

I must stop now to catch the valise; but before I do so,
please let me ask you to pay yourself a secretary out of the general
funds for the next few months. It is much more important that you
should keep well than that we should save a few hundred dollars.

Yours affectionately

21 Décembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous
remettre ci inclus la somme de 100 francs,
en un mandat, représentant la mensualité
qu'elle vous alloue.

Veuillez agréer, Mademoiselle, mes
salutations empressées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Mademoiselle Grieten

December 21st, 1917

Dear Mrs. Herbert,

As I understood from you the other
day that you had not yet been able to finish
copying the letters of Mr. James which I left
with you before going to Morocco, I write
to ask if you will kindly bring back today
those you have not been able to type, as well
as the packet I sent you a few days ago.

I am obliged to give all these letters
to the editor next week, and shall have to
have them typed elsewhere.

If you could bring them today at 5 o'clock you will find me in, and I shall be glad to see you for a few moments.

Yours very sincerely

21 Decembre 1917

Monsieur,

Je m'excuse d'avoir tardé si longtemps
à vous renvoyer les épreuves que vous avez
bien voulu me communiquer.

J'ai été débordée depuis mon retour du
Maroc, et comme je voulais causer avec vous
personnellement avant de vous remettre les
épreuves j'ai du attendre jusqu'après les
fêtes de Noël.

Si vous voulez venir me voir mercredi
prochain à 2.30 heures, je vous remettrai
les statistiques des Oeuvres jusqu'à la
fin Novembre, et en même temps, je me permet
trai de vous signaler les modifications que
je voudrai vous demander de faire dans les
pages que vous avez bien voulu consacrer à
mes Oeuvres.

Croyez, je vous prie, Monsieur, à mes
sentiments distingués.

Monsieur C.Fournier
42, avenue de Ségur
Paris.

December 28th 1917

Dear Mr. Ledyard,

My reason for cabling you last week to consider my letter of December 7th entirely confidential was that I wished to have time to receive a reply for the telegram which I had sent to M. Gestin, Président of the Société de Bienfaisance at Leysin, asking him to confirm the statements which the French friend at Berne whom we had asked to inspect our sanatorium from time to time.

A few days ago I received a letter from M. Gestin dated December 9th in which he tells me that since he wrote the letter which our friend at Berne quotes in his letter of November 22nd, the Red Cross has paid the money owing, and authorized him to buy for the patients warm outer garments and shoes. They still lack under-clothing and warm garments for the night, and M. Gestin begs me to call the attention of the doctors to the need of protecting their patients from the cold at night, a request necessitated by the fact that they sleep with their windows wide open."

In other words, more than three months after taking over the Tuberculous War Victims' funds the Red Cross has not yet provided warm clothing for their patients at Leysin!

About the 1st of December I also received the answers from the Red Cross about the four patients I had recommended six weeks previously. In one case, they offered to send the patient to the hospital Laennec, which has been hitherto one of the worst tuberculous pavillions in Paris, and which I have known dying patients to leave rather than stay there till the end. In another case, the doctor told the patient to go on with his work as a coachman, but to take milk and follow expensive diet, which the man of course could not afford to pay for. Two weeks afterwards, when I applied for a milk card for this man, the doctor decided that he was too ill to go on with his work, and finally took him into the rue du Dr Blanche Hospital.

This partial and tardy reparation of certain points critiqued in my letter leads me to think that the Red Cross has heard of my intention to write to our American Committees. What they have done does not increase my confidence in their methods, or in their consideration for their patients, and I definitely decided as ever to withdraw from any association with them. I have concluded, however, that the best way is to hand a statement to Mr. Folks summing up the

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points mentioned in my letter of December 7th, to you, and then to
write a short note, simply stating that I do not wish my name given
to the Sanatorium at Yerres. I shall send you a copy of my
memorandum and, shall also send copies to the heads of our New-York
Boston and Montclair Committees; and I shall make public the fact
that I have withdrawn my name, without publishing the reasons.

I hope you approve of this decision, and I authorize you
now to say that I have withdrawn my name from the sanatorium at
Yerres.

I shall send you by the next post a copy of my memorandum
to Mr. Folks. I am writing, in great haste, as usual, to catch
the valise, and so I can only add my best New Year wishes for you
and Mrs. Ledyard.

Yours very sincerely

December 28th 1917

Dear Dr. Hornung,

Here is the case of which I was trying to tell you:

Mademoiselle Martinière is a young work-girl who has been ill for years with a disease of the spinal column. Her kydneys are also affected, and Dr. Ish Wall, who has kindly been looking after her for me, tells me that she cannot recover though she may live for some years.

Mademoiselle Martinière is very brave and patient, though she is obliged to lay flat on her back. She does the most wonderful embroidery, and earns enough to support herself and her mother. The case is one of the most interesting I have known since I have been occupied with charities in Paris.

About a week ago she complained of a great pains in her head. The Dr. Ish Wall went to see her and told me she had an abscess in her jaw, and that he would send one of his assistants, Dr. Konechowsky, to lance it. This was done, and gave relief; but when I saw Mademoiselle Martinière two days ago, she was still in pain, and I imagine the trouble is one of which a dentist is the best judge. If you would go and see her at any hour today, except between one and two, I should be most grateful. Mlle Martinière leaves at 99, Avenue du Maine, and I will send you there and back in my taxi if you will let the bearer know at what hour you want to be called for.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

27 Décembre 1917

Monsieur le Docteur,

Je m'excuse de vous d'icter ce petit
mot.

J'aurais à déjeuner dimanche prochain
30 Décembre, à une heure, deux ou trois person-
nes intéressantes, et qui auront grand plaisir
à causer avec vous. Si, par hasard, vous pouvez
venir ce jour-là, je serai très heureuse; mais
sinon, voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de venir
vendredi 4 Janvier au lieu de jeudi le 3? Je
me suis rendue compte après vous avoir télépho-
né l'autre jour que j'avais déjà accepté un
déjeuner pour jeudi.

J'espère que l'une ou l'autre de ces
dates vous conviendra, et que vous me ferez
dire un oui par téléphone.

Veuillez croire, Monsieur le Docteur,
à mes sentiments les meilleurs.

24 Décembre 1917

Chère Madame,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire
combien elle est touchée de votre envoi de
roses, et aussi de vos aimables paroles, et
elle me charge de vous envoyer ses sincères
remerciements.

Malheureusement, Madame Wharton n'est
pas très bien en ce moment-ci, et le docteur
lui a conseillé de se ménager, aussi elle
s'excuse de ne pas vous écrire elle-même.

Madame Wharton vous envoie ses
souhaits de Noël et de Nouvel An, avec son
souvenir le meilleur.

Veuillez croire, chère Madame, à
mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Pour Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Madame Boutemy
7, rue Agar
Paris.

22 Décembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre du 21 Décembre, et qu'elle est très heureuse de vous envoyer le certificat ci-inclus avec ses voeux les meilleurs pour Noël et le nouvel an/

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire

Monsieur A.Jardel
12, rue de la Goutte d'Or
Paris.

30 Novembre 1917

Je, soussignée, certifie que
Monsieur André Jardel a collaboré à l'Oeuvre
de l'Accueil Franco-Américain aux Réfugiés
du 15 Novembre 1916 au 30 Novembre 1917, en
qualité d'Inspecteur Général de l'Oeuvre.

Monsieur A. Jardel nous a rendu
les services les plus précieux, et c'est
volontairement et libre de tout engagement
qu'il a quitté notre Oeuvre au regret de
notre Comité.

22 Décembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton vous prie d'aller
46, rue du Docteur Blanche lundi ou mer-
credi à 10 heures voir le Docteur Harvey
qui vous donnera un certificat pour ob-
tenir du lait.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes sa-
lutations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Monsieur E.Devaux
93, rue Cardinet
Paris.