7 Septembre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton vous prie de l'excuser
si elle ne répond pas elle-même à votre
lettre. Elle est souffrante et il lui
est impossible d'écrire.

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire
qu'elle aurait été très heureuse de
visiter vos poupounières, mais que pour
le moment son médecin lui ordonne un
repos complet, et que très prochainement
elle part pour passer quelque temps au
Maroc.

Plus tard, elle sera très heureuse
de visiter votre Oeuvre si intéressante,
qu'elle vous remercie de lui avoir si-
gnalée.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes sa-
lutations distinguées.

Madame Suzanne Rémont
Trésorière de la
Nouvelle Etoile
91, avenue Niel
Paris.

Fontainebleau

Sept. 9th 1917

Dear Mrs. von Hemert,

I hope you will excuse my dictating this
note in answer to yours. I have not been
very well lately and am ordered to write as
few letters as possible.

I have been at Fontainebleau for the
last few weeks taking a rest, and am leaving
this week for Morocco on a long trip, so that
I fear I shall not be able to go to see before
I leave; but I will ask Miss Power-Schroeder,
who is working with me, to call on you, and
she will tell me about the case you mention,
and will write you my answer.

I am very sorry you have been so unwell,
and hope that your convalescence will proceed
quickly now that the fine weather seems to
have come back.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely

Mrs. von Hemert
46, rue de Bassano
Paris.

COPY.

Sept. 10th, 1917

Dear Mr. Ledyard,

There never was anything kinder than your long cable, which
came the day before yesterday, and touched me more than I can say.

Will you tell Mr. Whitney how deeply grateful I am for his
share in this splendid gift, and in the message that comes with it?
I shall feel free now to go to Morocco with a light heart. It would
have been a great grief to me if I had had to hand over Groslay and
Arromanches to the Red Cross at this stage. Quite apart from the
fact that we need them for our own refugees, and that it would have
been impossible for us to get from the Red Cross (for I tried to do
it) any guarantee that the houses would be reserved for that purpose
quite apart from this I feel strongly, and so do all the active
members of the American Hostels Committee, that the Red Cross
organisation has not yet reached the stage of experience which will
enable them to take over an institution as carefully adjusted as our
group of convalescent homes without more or less risk of disorganiz-
ing it. I was entirely in favour of handing them over the "Tuber-
culeux de la Guerre" funds and houses, as that undertaking was too
large a one for private hands, now that such a formidable association
is in the field. But I shall strain every nerve to keep the Maisons
de Convalescence independent as long as the refugees continue to
pour in, while benefiting, whenever I can, by the advice of the Red
Cross Tuberculosis Commission in matters concerning medical treat-
ment and hygiene.

Every one in Paris who knows the Maisons de Convalescence and
the Hostels is in sympathy with my attempt to keep them independent.
and I hope to be able to raise sufficient funds in America to keep
them going, now that you and Mr. Whitney have set such a splendid
example.

Moreover, when we have made our formal transfer of the
"Tuberculeux de la Guerre" to the Red Cross, I mean to ask them to
give me 150.000 fcs out of the sum contributed to the Sanatoria,
to be applied to the Maisons de Convalescence.

I hardly think they can refuse, especially if you will send
me a line saying that you and Mr. Whitney are in favour of this
transfer. Of course eventually the Maisons de Convalescence will
pass over to the Red Cross, and they know this, and are very
anxious to have them.

I am leaving for Morocco on Saturday the 15th, and as I am

going on the invitation of General Lyautey I look forward to an
extraordinarily interesting opportunity of seeing the country.

With all my thanks again, dear Mr. Ledyard,

P.S. I enclose a receipt for the 40.000 fcs received.

12 Sept. 1917

Dear Madam,

I am in receipt of your note inform-
ing me that the Women's War Relief Corps
request me to send to Mrs. Boyd, of your
Registration Bureau, applications for
the relief of individual cases which may
come to my notice.

I am much obliged for this suggestion,
as I am frequently appealed to for help
in cases which do not fall under any of
the categories of my own relief-work.

Will you kindly transmit my thanks
to the Women's War Relief Corps, and
believe me,

Yours very truly

Mrs. E.C.Lambert
Women's War Relief Corps
5, rue François Ier
Paris.

12 Septembre 1917

Monsieur,

Je vous prie de prendre bonne
note qu'à partir du terme d'Octobre
je n'ai pas l'intention de renouveler
le bail de l'appartement, 254, Boule-
vard Saint-Germain, occupé par mon
Cuvroir.

Veuillez recevoir, Monsieur, l'as-
surance de mes sentiments

Monsieur E. Regaud
I, rue de Villersexel
Paris.

12 Septembre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me communique votre
lettre du II, et je suis très étonnée que
vous n'ayez pas reçu la mensualité accordée
par Madame Wharton que je vous ai envoyée
le 5 courant, par lettre recommandée.

Je vais voir au bureau de poste ce
qu'est devenue cette lettre, et de votre
voté je vous prie de me faire savoir si
depuis que vous avez écrit à Madame Wharton
la somme ne vous a pas été remise par
la poste; dans le cas où vous n'auriez
rien reçu, je ferai les réclamations néces-
saires.

Je vous remets inclus une enveloppe
timbrée et adressée pour me donner une

Septembre 14th, 1917

Dear Mildred,

My very warmest thanks for the most welcome monthly cheque of 2,500 frs., which I have just received.

As you know, we may regard it as a foregone conclusion that the American Hostels Committee will vote its annexation by the Red Cross on the very generous terms they have offered us. Therefore, I am relieved of any financial care as regards the Hostels; but I hope very much that you will allow me to apply this month's donation to the "Maisons de Convalescence", and that you and "C.F.B." will perhaps be willing in future to apply at least a part of the help you have given me to the "Maisons de Convalescence".

My reason for wishing to keep them independent for the present is the following: If they were handed over to the Red Cross they would inevitably be absorbed into the big general organisation against tuberculosis, and it would be impossible to reserve them for the tuberculous refugee women and children of the Hostels. The Red Cross recognise the good that the houses are doing at present, and will, I know, give me a certain amount of assistance in keeping them going; But to ensure their being reserved for our Hostels refugees I must myself raise the balance of the money that we require. When the refugees are able to go home the "Maisons de Convalescence" will undoubtedly pass over to the Red Cross as part of their general formation, but meanwhile I believe it is to the interest of the people we are trying to help that they should preserve their present independence.

I should be exceedingly grateful for any help you can spare me for this purpose, but shall quite understand if the endless claims on your bent's make it impossible for you to consider this particular appeal.

I am delighted to hear from Elisina that you are going off also for a rest and only wish it were taking you my way.

Yours very affectionately

Excuse dictation !

Mrs.R.W.Bliss.

September 14th, 1917

Dear Edith,

I know Walter Berry has already written to tell you that the Tuberculeux de la Guerre Sanatoria were taken over last week by the American Red Cross with the full approval of our American Committees.

The Red Cross has also, by an exceptional favour, agreed to assume all the running expenses of the "American Hostels" while leaving the present management unchanged, thus relieving me of a great financial burden; but I am keeping my two other war charities, the "Children of Flanders", entrusted to me directly by the Belgian Government, and which, therefore, I cannot hand over, as well as our "American Convalescent Homes" for refugee women and children, which I am especially anxious to keep independent as they are so much needed for refugees patients. If these Convalescent Homes were absorbed into the big Red Cross Sanatoria organisation it would be impossible for me to reserve them, as they are now, for the exclusive use of the ill women and children among the 4,000 refugees who are permanently cared for by the American Hostels. Therefore, after several talks with the Red Cross Committee, I have decided to try to raise money enough to run these houses till the end of the war. The monthly cost of upkeep is about 40,000 fre., and I have no doubt the Red Cross will give us something toward the expenses, as they warmly approve of the institution. But the main part of the money will have to be raised by private subscription, and I am therefore devoting your donation to this purpose, and should like to use in the same way any money you may be kind enough to send me later.

I hope you will approve of my putting your gift to this use, as the "Convalescent Homes" are also for tuberculous patients and would, in time, have formed part of the "Tuberculeux de la Guerre" group if the latter had not been absorbed by the Red Cross.

I am glad of this chance of sending you my love, and hope you may be coming to France again before long.

Yours affectionately

Mrs. Wm. Payne Thompson
Blight Cottage, Florida

15 Septembre 1917

Chère Amie,

En mon absence je vous prie de présider le Comité Général des "American Hostels" qui doit se réunir pour prendre un vote au sujet de l'offre de la Croix-Rouge Américaine.

Je vous prie de soumettre cette offre à notre Comité et de dire de ma part pour quelles raisons je crois devoir recommander l'acceptation de l'accord que la Croix Rouge nous propose.

Ainsi que vous le savez, l'offre que nous fait la Croix Rouge est tout à fait exceptionnelle. En général, ou bien elle propose aux œuvres de guerre de leur faire une allocation men-suelle qui ne représente qu'une faible partie de leurs frais, ou bien elle leur offre l'annexion complète. Dans le cas des Hostels l'avis du Comité sur notre œuvre est tellement favorable que l'on a accepté de subvenir entièrement à nos frais, tout en laissant l'organisation actuelle fonctionner comme par le passé. Il est bien entendu que la Croix Rouge se réserve le droit de modifier cette entente à l'avenir en ce qui concerne l'administration de l'œuvre; mais je suis persuadée que si tout marche bien de notre coté les modifications que l'on nous proposera seront uniquement inspirées par les circonstances, qui peuvent naturellement changer en ce qui concerne la situation des réfugiés. En tout cas, je suis d'avis d'accepter cette offre, puisque la difficulté de réunir les fonds nécessaires pour l'œuvre devient de plus en plus grande, et que nos Comités Américains m'ont déjà prévenue qu'ils craignaient ne plus pouvoir nous envoyer des sommes aussi considérables que par le passé.

Comme vous le savez, je serais d'avis de conserver telle qu'elle l'organisation administrative de l'œuvre, qui fonctionnera nécessairement sous la direction générale de la Croix-Rouge. Les fonctions du Comité Directeur cesseront forcément avec cette nouvelle organisation de l'œuvre, mais il est convenu avec la Croix Rouge qu'en ce qui concerne cette question purement protocolaire, rien ne sera modifié avant mon retour.

Mes sentiments affectueux.

Mrs. Royall Tyler.

AMERICAN

TELEPHONE:
PASSY 48-88 - 48-27

WOMEN'S WAR RELIEF CORPS
IN FRANCE

5, Rue François Ier

Paris (VIIIe), September 10, 1917

Mrs. WHARTON
53, rue de Varenne
Paris,

Dear Mrs. Wharton,

The regular monthly meeting of the Directors
with the Executive Board will take place on Friday, September
the fourteenth at half after two o'clock, at the residence of
the American Ambassador, 14 Avenue d'Eylau.

13 Septembre 1917

Mon Commandant,

Je vienx de recevoir une demande de
vêtements chauds du soldat Abel, Louis,
Convois Automobiles, T.M. 208 Roûtière.

Je venais natureuse de m'occuper de
lui si vous me le recommandez comme étant
digne d'intérêt.

En vous remerciant d'avance, je
vous prie, mon Commandant, de recevoir
l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

Mlle Grieten

Chalet Giroflée - Girofla
La Baule sur Mer
Lorraine Inferieure

15 Septembre 1917

Chère Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous envoyer l'adresse de Mlle Grieten qui vient de lui faire parvenir le journal joint.

Madame Wharton vous prie d'écrire simplement à Mlle Grieten qu'elle ait la bonté de vous avertir dès qu'elle sera de retour à Paris, et qu'à ce moment-là on lui fera leversement de la somme mensuelle promise. Veuillez également la remercier du journal.

Croyez, chère Mademoiselle, à mes sentiments les meilleurs.

Mademoiselle Herbert?

15 Sept? 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to thank you for your kind letter and begs you to excuse her not writing herself. Mrs. Wharton has just returned from the country and is leaving to-night for Morocco, but she asks me to say that she would be extremely grateful for any gift you would be kind enough to make to her war charities.

Mrs. Wharton suggests that the sum in question should be given either to the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, (Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres), or to the American Convalescent Homes" for refugee women and children at Groslay and Arromanches.

In any case, if you will send a cheque to Lieutenant Royall Tyler, 2I, Quai de Bourbon, IVeme, it will be acknowledged with gratitude.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Mrs. Wolcott
Hotel Vouillement
15, rue Boissavent, Anglas.

September 15th 1917

Dear Elisina,

I have asked Dolly Herbert to send you a request from a parent who wishes to take his child or children away from the rue de la Santé. The Mother Superior approves, but I have told Dolly to write that the matter must remain in suspense until you return.

I enclose a short statement for you to read at the Committee meeting of the Hostels. I have told Mr. Folks that as soon as the vote is taken you will let him know and that as regards the adjustment of details things can go on as they are until my return. Royall had better send them the process-verbal of the meeting with a letter signed by you and del Marmol accepting their offer, as contained in Mr. Folks's letter which I gave you the day before you left for England.

I enclose a copy of a cable received yesterday from Mr. Ledyard and Mr. Whitney. I took it at once to Mr. Folks, who gave me to understand that our request will certainly be granted, if not exactly in that form, at any rate with the same financial result. He asked me to repeat the request in writing and I enclose a copy of my letter to him. I am also leaving with him a plea for the Children of Flanders.

I have written to Madame Salanson. I have told Mlle Duprat to hold herself at your disposal for any odd job you may need to have done after October 1st. Till then I am giving her a complete holiday.

I am just off and by the time this reaches you I hope to be standing on African soil.

With much love,

Yours

Miss Rosamond de Kay Gilder
Hotel Vouillemont
15 rue Boissy d'Anglas
24 Gramercy Park

Fontainebleau

November 8th, 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say how much she regrets having missed your visit in Paris. She is at Fontainebleau taking a few weeks' rest, and is leaving for Morocco this week on a long trip.

Mrs. Wharton asks you to excuse her not writing herself for she has been very tired for the last two months, but she hopes very much to see you in Paris on her return in the early winter.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Miss R. de Kay Gilder
Hotel Vouillemont
15, rue Boissy d'Anglas.
Paris.

Fontainebleau

September 8th, 1917

Dear Madam,

Believe me,

Yours very truly

COPY of a letter sent to the Times by Mrs. Wharton.

September 8th 1917

To the Editor of the Times.

Sir:

So much stress is being laid on the material participation of America in the war that some Americans are apprehensive lest the far greater importance of the deep moral sympathy of their country with the cause of the Allies may to some extent be left out of account.

I hope, therefore, you will find space for the following extracts from a letter just received from a man of business in New-York who may be trusted to reflect the sober and impartial view of his environment.

I am, Sir,

Yours very truly

COPY.

New-York August 17th 1917

I have wished so often that you could be here on those
striving times, for you would be so interested to see the gradual
change that is coming in the minds and and temperament of the
people. You meet men in uniform, officers, soldiers and sailors
everywhere, in the cities, villages and country, and there is no
question at all that the seriousness of the war is at last being
realized.

We are taking things as a matter of course, that to me
are very surprising in a country so accustomed to peace and so
unmilitary. The draft is working smoothly, and I believe thoroughly,
and I have heard of no disturbances anywhere.

There is a splendid spirit of determination abroad which
means to see this business through. It is very hopeful for the
future spirit and character of the country, and is a sign of a
real underlying intelligence of the perilsfacing us in the future,
if Germany if not beaten, and of sympathy for what other countries
have already suffered at her hands in the past.

The reception that our troops have had in France, and our
engineers in London, have been very gratifying to all and have
added much to the already strong feeling towards our allies.

I believe we are now passing through an awakening of a
people that means to do its work thoroughly and from the highest
motives. There are of course some "blatherskitesand bounders, but
what country has not suffered from them?

Yours very affectionately

(signed:) Herman L.R.Edgar.

September 8th 1917

To the Editor of the Times.

Sir:

I am, Sir,

Yours very truly

September 15th 1917

Dear Mr. Folks,

Confirming our conversation of today, I write to say
that when the "Tuberculeux de la Guerre" Sanatoria were taken
over by the Red Cross it seemed to me that our American
Convalescent Homes at Arromanches and Croslay, though instituted
for the care of tuberculous or pre-tuberculous women and children,
and probably destined eventually to be absorbed into the general
group of tuberculosis sanatoria, should nevertheless be kept as
an independent formation for the present.

As you know, my reasons for thinking this were as follows:

1. The American Convalescent Homes were founded through the generosity of Mr. Payne Whitney and Mr. L. C. Ledyard for the special purpose of caring for the tuberculous women and children among the refugees assisted by the American Hostels.

2. These houses are constantly full, with a long waiting list, and they have rendered invaluable services to the refugee families cared for by the Hostels.

3. They are closely associated with this branch of the work in the minds of the refugees in Paris, many of whom have a traditional dread of going themselves, or sending their children, to a hospital, a dread we have gradually overcome, but which would return if Croslay and Arromanches lost their identity by being merged with a large formation.

Wishing to know if Mr. Ledyard and Mr. Whitney shared this opinion, and feeling that their generosity to the work entitled them to decide the question, I cabled them a summary of the above facts and asked their opinion. I also asked if, in the event of their agreeing with me, they would consent to a portion of their original donation to the "Tuberculeux de la Guerre" being allotted to the American Convalescent Homes, should such a proposal be agreed to by the Red Cross.

September 15th 1917

Dear Dr. Harrand,

I have just heard from Madame de Béarn that she will be in Paris for two days next week before starting for Italy. She arrives next Tuesday and leaves on Thursday.

I am leaving a letter for Madame de Béarn to tell her that I have notified you of her arrival and that you will ask to see her. I hope very much that you will be able to go personally, as the fact of your being a friend of mine, and almost a relation, (if you let me make the claim) will facilitate the arrangements about Mardor. I think Madame de Béarn will be very much pleased to hear that the Red Cross wishes to give her name to the Sanatorium for which she has raised the funds, and I am sure she will give you a warm welcome and that the practical question will be settled without difficulty.

I hope the arrangement with regard to recommending patients for a certain number of beds which the Marquise de Ganay and Mademoiselle Chaptal raised at our last meeting will be taken up soon by the Red Cross and favourably considered. As I told you the other day, it would satisfy the "amour-propre" of the members of the "Tuberculeux de la Guerre" Committee and would give the Red-Cross the assurance that the general situation of patients recommended had been carefully investigated and that, they were worthy of assistance provided their condition of health was found

to entitle them to care in a sanatorium. No general assurance of good-will would produce quite the same impression as a more precise understanding on this point, and such an agreement would not in any sense hamper the Red Cross with regard to its choice of patients from a medical point of view.

Believe me

Yours very sincerely

September 15th, 1917

CONFIDENTIAL.

Dear Captain, Reed,

I hear you are in Paris and am sorry not to have an
opportunity of seeing you before I leave for Morocco to-night.

I had a visit a day or two ago from a very intelligent
young American friend of mine, who has been here for about ten
days. In the course of conversation she said: "What a pity it
is that the French feel so bitterly against the English!" I asked
her in what respect she thought they felt bitterly, and she replied:
"The French are all saying that the English are in this war for
their own benefit and not to help the French, and that they mean to
keep all they can and get the better of the French in every way".

I told her I had heard nothing of this kind in any of
the different groups of people whom I see, and I asked if she could
mention anyone person who had talked to her in that way. She replied
at once that the well-known journalist, Monsieur Hugues Le Roux,
had talked to her at length in this strain, evidently taking him-
self the view she had just quoted. Monsieur Hugues Le Roux is a
very well-known journalist, but his reputation is much greater in
America than in his own country, where no importance is attached
to his judgment. Having married an American he has many relations
with America, where he has travelled extensively, and his wife has
been for many years the intimate friend of Mrs. Winthrop Chanler.
Monsieur et Madame Le Roux are also on intimate terms with Major
Bacon. Any inquiry among serious journalists in Paris will show
you that M. Le Roux's opinion is of no account here, but I am
convinced he is doing much harm at present among Americans in Paris
and perhaps also in America.

Yours very sincerely

Captain W. Reed
General Staff.

27 Octobre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton qui rentre de voyage trouve votre lettre du 19 Octobre, et elle vous prie de bien vouloir l'excuser de ne pas y répondre elle-même étant très fatiguée.

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle va s'occuper immédiatement du cas de votre cocher tuberculeux, et voir si elle ne peut pas le placer dans un Sanatorium.

Madame Wharton vous serait très obligé de bien vouloir lui envoyer le nom et l'adresse personnelle de la personne en question, renseignement que vous avez omis dans votre lettre. Il est nécessaire que le cocher passe une visite médicale avant que Madame Wharton puisse donner une réponse.

Madame Wharton vous envoie ses salutations sou- venirs les plus affektueux. Veuillez, agréer, Madame, mes salutations les plus distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Paris 16 Octobre 1917

Mon Commandant,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous demander
si le soldat Victor Fargeau, 47eme Régiment
d'Artillerie, 3eme Section de Parc, est
digne d'intérêt, et s'il n'a pas de parents
qui s'occupent de lui, ou une marraine?

Madame Wharton serait heureuse de s'occu-
per de lui, si vous pouvez le lui recomman-
der, et elle vous serait très obligée de
bien vouloir me répondre aussi vite que
possible, Madame Wharton étant en voyage
en ce moment-ci.

Veuillez agréer, mon Commandant, avec
nos remerciments anticipés, mes saluta-
tions les plus distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Commandant du 47eme Rgt Artillerie
3eme Section de Parc
Secteur Postal 181

27 Octobre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous remercier de votre lettre du 24 Septembre qu'elle trouve à son retour d'un voyage de six semaines.

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle est très touchée de l'auto-risation que vous lui donnez de transmette vos souscriptions mensuelles aux Maisons de Convalescence, et elle vous en remer-cie très vivement.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes saluta-tions distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

27 October 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to thank you for your letter and to say that she is not in need of a secretary, but that she will bear your inquire in mind and let you know if she hears of any opportunity for the kind of situation you are seeking.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

Miss Farrel
Hotel Cambon
Rue Cambon
Paris.

30 Octobre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous faire savoir qu'elle vous envoie un paquet de vêtements chauds comme vous lui en avez fait la demande dans votre lettre du 3 Septembre.

Madame Wharton rentre seulement d'un voyage de six semaines, et regrette le retard apporté à vous répondre. Elle est heureuse de vous dire qu'elle vous a recommandé à l'Oeuvre de Mon Soldat, qui pourra faire quelque chose pour vous, elle espère.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salutations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton

Secrétaire

M. Abel Louis

October 30th 1917

Dear Sirs,

In reply to your letter of October 22nd
1917 informing me that Messrs. Brown Brothers
& Co., of New-York, have placed to my credit
the sum of 5.775 frs., I write to ask if you
will kindly transmit this sum to the Equitable
Trust Company of New-York, 23, rue de la Paix,
with the request that it should be placed to
the credit of the "Maisons de Convalescence
Américaines.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Crédit Commercial de France
American Department
20bis, rue Lafayette
Paris.

31 Octobre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous remettre inclus le reçu pour la mensualité que Madame la Baronne de Rothschild veut b bien envoyer à l'Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres.

Madame Wharton vous envoie tous ses remerciements pour ce nouveau don.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Monsieur Empain
Sénateur du Royaume de Belgique

31 Octobre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'elle ne peut m'aishmaireusement pas s'occuper de votre cas, ses oeuvres ne fonctionnant qu'en faveur des réfugiés.

Madame Wharton vous conseille de
vous adresser à la Protection du Réformé
N° 2, rue Boissy d'Anglas, si vous
êtes réformé.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton

Secrétaire

P.S.-Inclus votre ordonnance/

October 31st, 1917

Dear Miss Clark,

Please excuse my long delay in thanking you for your
priceless donation -- never did $1.000 come at a more opportune
time!

I have been in Morocco since Sept. 20th and the notice
from Brown Brothers of the arrival of the money was sent me here
in my absence, so that I did not receive it till I got back a
day or two ago.

I am giving the whole amount to the American Convalescent Homes for Refugee women and children, which are now really the most important and beneficent part of our refugee work. It is attracting so much attention from the French authorities that there is some question of the City of Paris founding other homes on the same plan -- and we are very proud!

Thank you with all my heart for this help. I have undertaken to run these Homes without the help of the Red Cross for the present, as they have undertaken a gigantic work and are not very well organized yet. They have come to my aid by taking over the other Hostels' expenses, but I want to keep my Convalescent Homes quite under my own control and I think that now that so many Americans are coming to France and can see what we are doing they will understand my desire to keep these homes independent.

With renewed thanks for all your kindness,

Yours very sincerely

Miss E. Mabel Clark
Fairacres
Morristown N.J.

October

November 2nd, 1917

Dear Dr. Mercelis,

I am just back from a wonderful trip to Morocco and find
your precious cheque for 1,735,600 frs. awaiting me.

Will you please tell the Montclair Committee how very
grateful I am, and will you explain that I shall hereafter devote
any donation they may be kind enough to send me either to the
Children of Flanders Rescue Committee" or to the "American
Convalescent Homes" for refugee women and children?

The American Red Cross have absorbed our tuberculosis
Sanatoria into their general anti-ruberculous organisation. It
would have been foolish and ill-advised to attempt to keep aloof
from an American organisation as complete as theirs is to be, and
our American Committee in New-York and Boston were fully in favour
of annexation. This financial burden is therefore removed from
my shoulders, and as the Red Cross have also very generously assum-
ed all the running expenses of the "American Hostels for Refugees"
I am now able to devote myself entirely to raising funds for the
"Convalescent Homes" and the "Children of Flanders. I kept the
Convalescent Homes because our Committee all felt that they were
so greatly needed for our own refugees that it would be wrong to
allow them to be absorbed into the general organisation of the
Red-Cross while we have so long a waiting list of our own. Mr.
Lewis Ledyard and Mr. Payne Whitney, whose generosity enabled us to
found these Homes, and who have twice given us large sums to keep
them up, are fully in favour of our decision to remain independent,
and I hope very much that the Montclair Committee will take the same
view and will continue to help me. I enclose the copy of a letter
which I have just written to the Refugees' Relief Fund explaining
the situation in full, as I think it may interest your Committee
to hear all our reasons for this decision.

I find Miss Schroeder busier and more useful than ever, and
I cannot tell you how much we depend on her in our work among the
refugees.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely and gratefully

medical

November 2nd 1917

S. Smitney Esqr
Secretary pro tem.
Refugees' Relief Fund
120, Broadway
New York.

Dear Sir,

I have just returned after an absence of six weeks in Morocco, and find awaiting me two cheques of § 500 each from the Refugees' Relief Fund of New York, to be used for the American Hostels for Refugees. As it was impossible to forward my mail my acknowledgment is a month late, and I hope you will ask the Committee to excuse the involuntary delay.

At the same time, will you kindly put before them the following facts? As you probably know, the work of the American Hostels was enlarged about eighteen months ago, by the organisation of a group of Convalescent Homes for tuberculous and pre-tuberculous refugee women and children, the founding of which was made possible by the generous gift of two friends of France in New York.

These Convalescent Homes, which are situated at Crosland, near Paris, and at Arromanches in Normandy, care for 135 refugee women and children, all drawn from the families who are assisted by the Hostels, and 50 children with tuberculosis of the bone entrusted to us by the City of Paris, who pay frs. 2.50 per day and per patient of their expenses. We always have a long waiting list, and the Convalescent Homes are so favourably known that there is some question at present of the City of Paris organizing others like them on the same lines.

A few weeks ago, the Committee of the American Hostels came to a very satisfactory understanding with the American Red Cross, whereby the latter assume all the expenses of the Hostels excepting the cost of running the Convalescent Homes. The management of the Hostels is left as before, and no change is made in our personnel. The Red Cross would have been glad to absorb our Convalescent Homes into their general organisation for the relief of tuberculosis; but as this organisation, which is on a very large scale, and planned chiefly for the future, is not yet complete,

S. Smitney Esqr.

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and as it was impossible for them to promise that our Homes
would be reserved exclusively for refugees, our Committee decided
to take the risk of keeping these Homes independent, and trying
to raise funds for them in America till the end of the war. This
decision was reached with the approval of the two American donors
who had made the foundation of the Homes possible, and the Red
Cross understand our reasons, and are in sympathy with them. With
the prolongation of the war medical care has come to be the first
and chief need of the majority of our refugees, and there are so
many cases of incipient tuberculosis among the women and children
that if we had allowed these Homes to be absorbed into the general
organisation of the Red-Cross, we should have deprived our work
among the refugees of fifty per cent of its usefulness.

I should be much obliged if you would be kind enough to
make it clear to your Committee that the Convalescent Homes
represent a part of the work which they have been supporting
hitherto, and I trust the Refugees' Relief Fund will approve our
decision and will be willing to continue their help to this special
branch of the work, as the majority of our other benefactors
have done. We need about 7,000 a month to keep the Homes
going, and I shall be greatly disappointed if I am not able to
carry them on to the end.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

3 Novembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton vient de rentrer d'un
voyage de six semaines, et elle trouve
votre lettre du 15 écoulé dont elle
vous remercie.

Madame Wharton est un peu fatiguée
et vous prie de l'excuser de ne pas vous
écrire elle-même. Elle me prie de vous
remettre ci-inclus un mandat de 100 frs.
pour le mois de Novembre.

Veuillez agréer, Mademoiselle,
mes salutations les plus distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:
Secrétaire

Mademoiselle Grieten
81, rue Nollet
Paris.

3 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre du 30 écoulé et l'article qui l'accompagne.

Madame Wharton rentre d'un voyage et elle est fatiguée et souffrante; elle désirerait remettre à la huitaine la question des corrections de l'article et me prie de vous demander si cette date vous conviendrait. Veuillez me faire savoir à l'adresse ci-dessus si Madame Wharton pourrait s'entretenir avec vous dans huit jours, ou s'il y a quelque inconvénient à ce retard?

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Monsieur Fournier
30,rue de Provence
Paris.

November 3rd, 1917

Dear Miss King,

I have just got back from a long trip in Morocco and find your note of October 24th awaiting me.

I am very sorry that your plans for the winter have been changed unexpectedly. For the present there is no position vacant on any of our charities, but Mrs. Tyler and I will of course be delighted to recommend you to anyone who wishes to make inquiries, and I will also be/ you in mind should any of my compatriots apply to me for a resident governess.

Excuse me not having been able to answer your note before, but it was impossible to forward my correspondence to Morocco.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

Miss King,
12, Avenue d'Eylau
Paris.

3 Novembre 1917

Madame,

A mon retour d'un voyage au Maroc je
trouve votre aimable mot.

Pour le moment, malheureusement, je
suis plus ou moins au repos, et n'ai pas
encore repris mes visites à nos Maisons
de Convalescence; mais Madame Royall
Tyler me charge de vous dire qu'elle
compte aller à Groslay mardi prochain le
6, et qu'elle sera très heureuse de vous
montrer nos maisons si vous voulez bien
vous rendre au numéro 8, rue des Ecoles,
à 3 heures.

Je vous prie de m'excuser d'être
obligée de dicter ces quelques mots, et
de croire à mes sentiments les meilleurs
et les plus distingués.

Madame Durey-Sohy
Chateau Vieux
Groslay.

Novembre 6th 1917

Dear Sir,

During my absence in Morocco, my sister-in-law sent me your letter of Sept. 5th, enclosing a cheque for 122,900 frs. to be added to the last donation of the Bar Harbour War Relief to the French Tuberculous War-Victims' Committee.

I note that this additional payment is due to a mistake in the exchange made by the American Express Company.

My sister-in-law has no doubt told you that we just merged our tuberculosis Sanatoria with the general organisation of the Red Cross. As soon as all the details are settled all our benefactors will receive a letter notifying them of this arrangement, which we all believe to be in the interest of the patients themselves. Meanwhile I am transmitting your cheque to the Red Cross, who will acknowledge the receipt directly to you.

With many thanks, believe me,

Yours very truly

November 6th 1917

Dear Mrs. Dexter,

Will you kindly put before your Committee the follow-
ing facts? As you probably know, the work of the American
Hostels was enlarged about eighteen months ago by the organisa-
tion of a group of Convalescent Homes for tuberculous and pre-
tuberculous refugee women and children, the founding of which
was made possible by the generous gift of two friends of France
in New-York.

These Convalescent Homes, which are situated at Groslay,
near Paris, and at Arromanches in Normandy, care for 135
refugee women and children, all drawn from the families who are
assisted by the Hostels, and 50 children with tuberculosis of
the bone entrusted to us by the City of Paris, who pay 2.50
per day and per patient of their expenses. We always have a
long waiting list, and the Convalescent Homes are so favourably
known that there is some question at present of the City of
Paris organizing others like them on the same lines.

A few weeks ago, the Committee of the American Hostels
came to a very satisfactory understanding with the American
Red Cross, whereby the latter assume all the expenses of the
Hostels excepting the cost of running the Convalescent Homes.
The management of the Hostels is left as before, and no change
is made in our personnel. The Red Cross would have been glad
to absorb our Convalescent Homes into their general organisation
for the relief of tuberculosis; but as this organisation, which
is on a very large scale, and planned chiefly for the future,
is not yet complete, and as it was impossible for them to promise
that our Homes would be reserved exclusively for refugees, our
Committee decided to take the risk of keeping these Homes
independent, and trying to raise funds for them in America till
the end of the war. This decision was reached with the approval
of the two American donors who had made the foundation of the

Mrs. Dexter.

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Homes possible, and the Red Cross understand our reasons, and
are in sympathy with them. With the prolongation of the war
medical care has come to be the first and chief need of the ma
majority of our refugees, and there are so many cases of incipient
tuberculosis among the women and children that if we had allowed
these Homes to be absorbed into the general organisation of the
Red-Cross we should have deprived our work among the refugees
of fifty per cent of its usefulness.

I should be much obliged if you would be kind enough to
make it clear to your Committee that the Convalescent Homes
represent a part of the work which they have been supporting
hitherto, and I trust the Khilton Club will approve our decision
and will be willing to continue their help to this special branch
of the work, as the majority of our other benefactors have done.
We need about 7,000 a month to keep the Homes going, and I shall
be greatly disappointed if I am not able to carry them on to the
end.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

6 Novembre 1917

Cher Monsieur et ami,

Je n'ai reçu qu'hier votre lettre écrite avant votre départ pour la rue de la Chaise, et m'envoyant les copies de la lettre du Dr. White et de votre réponse.

J'ai couru immédiatement à la Croix Rouge avec Berry, et nous avons appris que le Dr. White s'était déjà rendu compte que son traducteur l'avait mal compris (encore une fois!). Il s'apprêtait à vous envoyer une explication, avec ses excuses. Voici, d'après ce que j'ai compris, ce qu'il croyait avoir dit:

"La Croix Rouge Américaine n'estimant pas qu'il soit nécessaire d'avoir un administrateur à La Chaumette avant que les travaux ne soient terminés et la propriété remise à la Croix Rouge, a prévenu M. Dupuy qu'elle n'aurait plus besoin de ses services à partir du 15 Novembre." —!!!!!

Vous voyez qu'il y a une légère différence entre les deux versions. En somme, la Croix Rouge n'a aucune intention de manquer à ses engagements relativement à La Chaumette.

Je suis si heureuse de savoir que vous allez mieux, et je vous envoie mon souvenir le meilleur.

M. de Beaumont

6 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a reçu hier votre
deuxième lettre, et qu'elle est allée immédiatement à la Croix-Rouge
pour demander pourquoi votre chèque ne vous avait pas été envoyé.

Il paraît qu'à cause des fêtes il y a eu un malentendu et un
retard, mais que le chèque est parti hier. Madame Wharton espère
que vous le recevrez ce soir sans faute.

Quant à vos frais de nourriture et pour les cinq jours que vous
avez passés à l'hôtel à Tours, Madame Wharton me prie de vous faire
remarquer que vous n'y faites aucune allusion dans votre première
lettre, et comme elle n'était pas dutout au courant de l'arrangement
que M. de Beaumont avait fait avec vous, elle n'a naturellement pas
réclamé que ce que vous aviez demandé dans votre première lettre.
Il est très regrettable que vous ne lui ayez pas envoyé un petit
résumé précis de ce que la Croix-Rouge vous devait quand vous lui
avez écrit la première fois.

Veuillez avoir l'obligeance de l'envoyer votre note immé-
diatement et Madame Wharton s'en accupera. XX

Madame Wharton regrette beaucoup le malentendu qui s'est pro-
duit, mais malheureusement elle a été en voyage depuis presque deux
mois, et M. de Beaumont a été gravement malade et se trouve encore
à l'hôpital. Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'aurait
qu'elle a su que la Croix-Rouge n'allait pas garder un administra-
teur à La Chaumette, elle a prévenu M. Hugonnet de l'Oeuvre des Mu-
tiles de la Guerre que vous serez probablement désireux de trouver
un autre emploi, et elle espère qu'en arrivant à Paris vous n'aurez
pas de difficultés à vous placer. Soyez sûr que Madame Wharton sera
très heureuse de vous recommander.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salutations les plus distin-
guées.

Pour Madame Wharton:

M. Dupuy
Administrateur
La Chaumette

Puisque l'arrangement est le même que je montre, je me demanderai à l'administrateur des 8. des 8, les détails de cet arrangement, et elle fera les démarches nécessaires auprès de M. Dupuy, administrateur, et elle fera les démarches nécessaires auprès de la Croix Rouge.

Secrétaire.

November 6th 1917

Dear Sir,

I beg to acknowledge with my warmest thanks the gift of nine woollen sweaters sent to me through Mrs. Blair Fairchild. Will you kindly tell your Committee that they have already been sent to soldiers at the front.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

To the Secretary of
the American Red-Cross
of Boston
10 Arlington Street
Boston Mass.

November 6th 1917

Dear Princess,

Please excuse my having to dictate this line to thank you for your monthly donation for November. I have just got back from a long and rather fatiguing trip in Morocco, and am not able to do much letter-writing at present.

As you know from the vote taken at our last American Hostels meeting, the American Red-Cross have assumed the running expenses of the Hostels, with the exception of our Convalescent Homes at Groslay and Arromanches, which we preferred to keep independent, as any medical formation which is taken over by the American Red-Cross immediately becomes absorbed in their general hospital organisation, and they were therefore unable to promise that our Convalescent Homes would be reserved exclusively for the tuberculous refugee women and children assisted by the American Hostels.

I am venturing to devote your last donation to the Convalescent Homes, and I should be so glad if you would come with me to see our two houses at Groslay which is only half-an hour by motor from Paris. I should like to show you what we are doing there, and I should be so grateful if you would continue your subscription to this particular branch of the Hostels work. We need about 40,000 francs a month to run the two houses at Groslay, and the two at Arromanches for children with tuberculosis of the bone, and I should be desperately sorry if this work should have to be given up before the end of the war.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

November 7th, 1917

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to acknowledge
with many thanks the receipt of a cheque
of 173.35 francs equivalent of two contri-
butions, namely $20.- and $10.-, from the
Refugees Relief Fund of New-Yorks, to whom
she is writing by same mail.

Yours very truly

Secretary

American Relief Clearing House
4, Place de la Concorde
Paris.

November 7th 1917

Dear Mr. Greeley,

As you know, the American Red Cross
has taken over our Oeuvre des Tuberculeux
de la Guerre, and have closed our office
at 61, rue de Varenne.

Will you kindly let me know where
you wish me to have sent the fur;
which you were so kind to lend us and
which contributed so much to the comfort
and the pleasant appearance of our rooms.

It was very kind of you to help us
out in this way, and we all appreciated
it very much. As soon as I have your
answer I will see that the furniture is
sent to you.

Yours very sincerely

Monsieur Russell Greeley
18, rue de Condé

Paris.

November 7th 1917

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton has just received through
the American Relief Clearing House your
cheque of 173,35, equivalent of two con-
tributions of $20.- and $10.-, for which
she asks me to send you her warmest thanks.

Please find enclosed receipt for same.

Yours very truly

Secretary

S. Smitney Esqr
Secretary pro. tem.
Refugees Relief Fund.
New-Yorks.

13 Novembre 1917

Cher Monsieur,

J'ai appris avec beaucoup de regret que vous quittez la rue Taitbout. Vous savez sans doute que je ne fais plus partie du Comité des "American Hostels", mon médecin m'ayant conseillé de prendre un repos de quelques mois; mais je sais par Madame Tyler que l'on vous a offert un poste tellement plus avantageux que le Comité estime qu'il n'a pas le droit de vous demander de revenir sur votre décision, malgré tout le regret que l'on aura à vous voir partir.

Vous nous avez rendu de très grands services, et j'es-
père, un peu plus tard, pouvoir vous en remercier de vive-
voix; mais en ce moment-ci je suis tellement fatiguée que je
ne reçois quetzès peu de visites.

En attendant je tiens à vous exprimer toute ma recon-
naissance pour votre collaboration à notre Oeuvre, et vous dire
combien je me réjouis que vous ayez trouvé un emploi plus im-
portant et plus profitable.

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

Monsieur Jardel
18, rue Taitbout
Paris.

IO Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton vous prie de l'excuser si elle ne vous écrit pas elle-même, mais elle est un peu fatiguée par un voyage de six semaines au Maroc.

Madame Wharton ne se souvient pas exactement si c'est vous qui lui avez recommandé Madame Denebourg, 7, avenue de la Liberté, Rénançbes-Bruyères, et elle me charge de m'enquèrir auprès de vous.

Madame Wharton a envoyé à cette dame 25 frs. par mois pendant six mois, et elle regrette ne pas pouvoir continuer davantage cette petite pension.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salutations les plus distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire

Monsieur G.Bellivet
Château de Maizières
Calvados

12 Novembre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous remettre
ci-inclus un mandat de 166,90 francs,
représentant la balance de la somme de frs.
1166,90, dont 1.000 frs. vous ont été
envoyés le 10 courant.

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

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire

S.E.
Madame Lyautey
Résidence Générale
Rabat
Maroc.

November 14th 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to thank you for your extremely kind note of September 3rd, and to make her excuses for the long delay in answering it.

Mrs. Wharton has been away on a long trip to Morocco and as it was impossible to forward her letters she found such an accumulation of correspondence on her return that she has not been able to reply more promptly.

Mrs. Wharton is most grateful for your offer to lend one or two of your English nurses and greatly regrets that the message was not received by Mrs. Royall Tyler, who always replaces her in her absence and who has the active management of the American Convalescent Homes. Mrs. Wharton fears that there is no hope now of finding one of your nurses out of job, but if by chance you should know of one whom you could lend for a few weeks, she would be extremely grateful and would let you know all the particulars at once.

Believe me,

Miss Watson
Astoria Hospital
I, rue de Presbourg
Paris.

November 14th 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that your letter came while she was in Morocco, and begs you to excuse her not being able to answer it herself.

Mrs. Wharton has not been well for some time past, and the doctor has told her that she must not continue any active work at present. She is therefore trying to deal with the accumulation of correspondence which she found on her return, and after that she intends to take a complete rest of several months.

She feels sure that you will understand her not being able to write herself, and she wishes me to tell you that she has already sent the photograph to Mr. Winthrop.

Believe me,
Yours very truly

Secretary

Miss Parsons
110, East 36th Street
New-York.

November 14th 1917

Dear Mrs. Waterman,

Please excuse my long delay in answer-
ing your kind letter which came while I was
in Morocco.

I am much interested in what you tell me of Miss Waterman, and if she is willing to work seriously and steadily for a considerable number of hours every day, I think we can give her a place suited to what you tell me of her special aptitudes. She will probably have to do with women and children refugees after having a preliminary course in the Office of the "American Hostels".

If Miss Waterman still feels disposed
to come, will you kindly let me know as soon
as possible?

With many thanks to her and to you for
offering her services to my work,

I am,
Yours very truly

Mrs.Kingsbury Waterman

November 14th 1917

Dear Lizzie,

Where are you and how are you? When I got back from Morocco I heard from Elisina that Martha was then at sea, and I hope that long before this she has reached Stepleton safely, and that she is well and you are happy.

I found such a monstrous collection of letters awaiting me on my return that I can only dictate this word of love and enquiries. Please let me know soon all about yourself and the Lindsays, and give them my love if they are with you.

The Hostels and the Maisons de Convalescence are thriving, and we have just had a gift of 34,000 francs for the latter, which will pay for our Chauffage central. Think what a good luck it is as our richest subscribers all withdrew their subscriptions as soon as they found that the Red Cross had assumed the expenses of the Hostels. I had hoped they would go on and give the money to Groslay and Arromanches, but the two millionnaires backed out at once while dear Mrs. Hickox and the Princess Duleep Singh are going on as before.

Will you be an angel and try to find me some Oxford Court pens? They are the only pens I can write with decently, and they only baliyot in England. Elisina tried to get some when she was there but the shops to which she went are all out, so I should be very glad if you would have a try.

Yours ever affectionately

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was no steamer that week. These delays constantly happen at
the last moment, and you may be sure that when I say I will
send you anything I do not forget it.

5. In future do not write to Miss Herbert except to give orders for lingerie or make enquiries about missing orders. She knows nothing about the general management of the work, and is only bewildered by your enquiries. Write directly to me whenever any question of that sort arises.

6. With regard to sending gifts in kind from America, we are on the best possible terms with the Red-Cross, including Major Murphy, but the transportation problem has become so acute that I understand the Red Cross is not even able to get space for the gifts in kind they have already promised to different charities here. Therefore I hope to get as much money as possible for the purchase of clothing, as anything sent from America would certainly not reach us for months.

And now, lastly, to thank you for the photograph of Anna's gravestone. I am so glad it is in place at last and that Mrs. Parker is pleased with it. The lettering is certainly charming; please tell Trix how much I like it.

## Lettuce of October 26th and November 6th.

I am so glad you have decided to translate Chérédame's book for Scribner, and I hope they are giving you good pay. Your translations of Recouly's articles have been very much praised here, and you ought to become an English for I know of no other good English translator.

I am glad you like Percy Lubbock's review of Summer in the Times. All the other English reviews have been very flattering, though of course not nearly as interesting as his, and Sir Frederick Macmillan writes me that the book is selling extremely well in England, which seems astonishing at a time like this.

I am pleased to hear that you have had some quiet days in the country at Lanox and Stockbridge, and I hope that once you have settled in New-York, your household will run smoothly.

I meant to make this letter much longer but poor little Gabrielle Landormy has just been taken ill with scarlet fever, and this makes it necessary for me to rush off in haste. Still, I hope to be able to get the reports off with this letter, and if not, they will go next week. Meanwhile I enclose a copy of a letter I have just written to Dudley Pickman and Mrs. Bayard

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Thayer, and which you may find useful as a formular to send to
your New-York subscribers.

I am very tired, unluckily, and my trip to Morocco, though
every moment of it was enchanting, and everything was done for
my comfort, was undertaken at a moment when I was hardly up
to such a long journey, and I have come back here to such a
deluge of work, and relations and friends arriving from
America, that the doctor has put his foot down and tells me
I must take a complete rest of three or four months after the
end of November. I don't know whether I shall be able to go
away as it is rather difficult at this moment, but if I remain
here I shall have to drop everything except collecting money
for the Children of Flanders and the Convalescent Homes. Please
let people understand that I am really not well and cannot be
much written to about trifle things or have stray people sent
me with letters. It is nothing but a case of brain and nerve
fatigue, but I really must stop for a while.

Best love to you all

Yours affectionately

P.S.- **VERY IMPORTANT.**- As the funds of the American Convalescent Homes are deposited with the Equitable Trust Co., and not with Munroe, I must ask you to be kind enough to transfer your deposits in future to the Equitable Trust Company of New-York,

14 Novembre 1917

Mon Commandant,

Madame Wharton vient de recevoir une
lettre du soldat Thomas Louis, 3ème Section
de C.O.A., Cantonnement Massillex, Le Havre,
qui lui demande de bien vouloir venir en
aide à sa femme et ses enfants.

Madame Wharton serait très heureuse de
faire quelque chose pour sa famille, mais
elle désirerait avoir quelques renseigne-
ments complémentaires, et me prie de vous
demander si vous considérez ce militaire
comme digne d'intérêt.

Veuillez agréer, Mon Commandant, mes
salutations les plus distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire

Au Commandant
de la 3ème Section
de C.O.A.
Cantonnement Massillex
Le Havre.

15 Novembre 1917

Chère Madame,

Je reviens du Maroc et je trouve votre
aimable mot.

Je suis désolée de ne pas pouvoir
faire partie de votre Comité, mais depuis
quelque temps on me demande si souvent de
d'accepter d'être membre de Comité de
Patronage que j'ai du prendre la décision
formelle de ne plus donner mon nom qu'aux
Oeuvres desquelles je m'occupe activement.
Je le regrette beaucoup, mais je crain-
drais d'offenser la susceptibilité de
certaines oeuvres si je faisais une ex-
ception en faveur de vos concerts.

Inutile de vous dire que je m'y in-
téresse vivement, et je vous prie de bien
vouloir m'envoyer un programme dès qu'ils
sera publié afin que je puisse retenir des
places.

Je m'excuse de ne pas vous écrire
moi-même, mais je suis un peu souffrante
depuis mon retour et le docteur m'a ordonné
quelques semaines de repos.

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

15 Septembre 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton begs you to excuse her long
delay in answering your kind note. She has
just got back from a long trip in Morocco
and as she is not very well and her doctor
has advised her to take a rest of several
weeks and to refrain as much as possible from
letter-writing. She therefore hope you will
excuse her writing in her place.

Unfortunately she is not able to
receive many visits at present but she is
naturally interested in the American Soldiers
and Sailors Club in the rue Royale, and hopes
you will allow her to come and see it when
she is stronger. She regrets very much that
she was not able to answer your letter before
and hopes that you were told, in the interval,
that she was not in France.

Believe me,

Mrs.F.W.Beekman
12,rue Castiglione
Paris.

15 Novembre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous faire
toutes ses excuses si elle ne peut pas
répondre elle-même à votre mot. Elle est
un peu souffrante et son médecin lui a
ordonné de prendre quelques semaines de
repos.

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire qu'elle aurait été très heureuse de faire partie du Comité d'Honneur de votre concert de gala, mais elle a pris, au début de la guerre, la décision formelle de ne donner son nom qu'aux Oeuvres dont elle s'occupe activement. Comme elle a dû refuser très souvent de faire parti de Comités d'Honneur de nombreuses Oeuvres de Guerre Franco-Américaines, elle craindrait de froisser la susceptibilité de leurs Comités en faisant exception à cette règle

Madame Wharton vous serait très obligée si vous vouliez bien lui faire envoyer le programme de votre concert de gala dès qu'il sera imprimé, car elle voudrait retenir des places.

Veuillez agréer, Madame la Comtesse,
l'assurance de mes sentiments respectueux.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

15 Novembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton vous prie d'avoir la bonté d'envoyer le plus tôt possible l'infirmière que vous lui avez proposée, chez Mademoiselle Gabrielle Landormy, 146, rue de Rennes.

Madame Wharton devant s'absenter pour le déjeuner, me charge de vous demander de me téléphoner ici à partir de deux heures à quelle heure l'infirmière pourra être auprès de sa malade. Mademoiselle Renée Landormy est chez sa sœur, et pourra recevoir la personne que vous enverrez dans la journée.

Veuillez agréer, Mademoiselle, mes salutations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire

Mademoiselle F. Konechovsky
Rue de Bellechasse
Paris.

November 15th 1917

Dear Mr. Folks,

Your letter of Sept. 18th last, in reply to mine of Sept. 15th, came while I was away in Morocco, and as it was not possible to forward my correspondence, I received it only on my return a few days ago.

In my letter I had enclosed the copy of a cable received by me from Mr. Payne Whitney and Mr. L.C. Ledyard, requesting the Red-Cross to allot to Groslay the sum of 150,000 francs to be taken from their donation for the Sanatoria of the Tuberculous War-Victims Committee.

I am delighted to learn from your reply that the America
Red Cross have consented to carry into effect the wish of Mr.
Ledyard and Mr. Whitney, and I hope you will transmit our warmest
thanks to your Committee together with my excuses for the
unavoidable delay in acknowledging your letter.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely

P.S.- Early next week I will send you the list of members of our small Committee of Management for the American Hostels.

Homer Folks Escre
Director Department of
Civil Affairs
American Red Cross
4, place de la Concorde.
Paris.

November 16th 1917

Dear Mrs. Dexter,

I have been away on a long trip in Morocco, and on my return I find the monthly donation of the Chilton Club for the American Hostels for Refugees. I am venturing to give it to the group of American Convalescent Homes which I founded about eighteen months ago (in connection with the Hostels) for the tuberculous women and children among our refugees. And in thanking your Committee for this donation I should like to put before them the following facts: —

A few weeks ago the Committee of the American Hostels came to a satisfactory understanding with the American Red-Cross, whereby the latter agree to assume all the expenses of the Hostels, excepting the cost of running the American Convalescent Homes. The management of the Hostels is left as before, and no change is made in our personnel. The Red Cross would have been glad to absorb also the Convalescent Homes into their general organisation for the relief of tuberculosis; but as the Red Cross organisation, which is on a very large scale, and planned chiefly for the future, is not yet complete, and as it was impossible for them to promise that our Homes would be reserved exclusively for refugees, our Committee decided to take the risk of keeping these Homes independent, and trying to raise funds for them in America till the end of the war. This decision was reached with the approval of the two American donors who had made the foundation of the Homes possible, and the Red Cross understand our reasons, and are in sympathy with them. With the prolongation of the war, medical care has come to be the first and chief need of the majority of our refugees, and there are so many cases of incipient tuberculosis among the women and children that if we had allowed these Homes to be absorbed into the general organisation of the Red-Cross we should have deprived our work among the refugees of fifty per cent of its usefulness.

The Convalescent Homes, which are situation at Greslay, near Paris, and at Arromanches in Normandy, care for 140 women and children, all drawn from the families who are assisted by the Hostels, and, in addition, for 50 children with tuberculosis

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of the bone, entrusted to us by the Assistance Publique of
the City of Paris, who pay 2.50 per day and per patient toward
the expenses of their 50 patients. We always have a long wait-
ing list, and the Convalescent Homes are so favourably known
that the French Government just asked us to organize three
more houses of about 100 beds each, on the same model, to be
run at their expense, for repatriated women and children from
Evian.

I should be most grateful if you would be kind enough
to make it clear to your Committee that the Convalescent Homes
represent the most vital part of the work which they have been
supporting hitherto, and I hope the Chilton Club will approve
our decision, and will be willing to continue their help to this
special branch of the work, as the majority of our benefactors
have done. We need about $8,000 a month to

November 16th 1917

Dear Dudley,

I have been off on a long trip in Morocco and on my return I found a terrible accumulation of letters, as Mrs. Cameron, who usually takes charge of my correspondence in my absence, was unexpectedly detained in England, and there was no one to attend to my letters.

But for this I should have written you sooner to ask you to communicate to the Boston Committee the following facts, which I hope will interest them. (I am writing at the same time to Mrs. Bayard Thayer giving her the same informations); —

A few weeks ago the Committee of the American Hostels came to a satisfactory understanding with the American Red Cross, whereby the latter agree to assume all the expenses of the Hostels, excepting the cost of running the American Convalescent Homes. The management of the Hostels is left as before, and no change is made in our personnel. The Red Cross would have been glad to absorb also the Convalescent Homes into their general organisation for the relief of tuberculosis; but as the Red Cross organisation, which is on a very large scale, and planned chiefly for the future, is not yet complete, and as it was impossible for them to promise that our Homes would be reserved exclusively for refugees, our Committee decided to take the risk of keeping these Homes independent and trying to raise funds for them in America till the end of the war. This decision was reached with the approval of Mr. Payne Whitney and Mr. Lewis Ledyard who had made the foundation of the Homes possible, and the Red Cross understand our reasons, and are in sympathy with them. With the prolongation of the war, medical care has come to be the first and chief need of the majority of our refugees, and there are so many cases of incipient tuberculosis among the women and children that if we had allowed these Homes to be absorbed into the general organisation of the Red-Cross we should have deprived our work among the refugees of fifty per cent of its usefulness.

The Convalescent Homes, which are situated at Croslay, near Paris, and at Arromanches in Normandy, care for 150 women and children, all drawn from the families who are assisted by the Hostels, and, in addition, for 50 children with tuberculosis of the bone, entrusted to us by the Assistance Publique of the City of

November 16th 1917

Mrs.Bayard Thayer
84, Beacon Street
Boston,

Dear Mrs. Thayer,

I found your cable on my return from a long trip to Morocco, and I was very sorry to have to answer that I had no work in view for your two charming young women. I should have been so delighted to welcome them both, but at the present moment we have no suitable occupations for young girls in any of our organisations, and I thought it much better to suggest you to apply to the Red-Cross as they seem to be sending out so many girls from America. I hope very much they will be successful and that I shall hear from them when they arrive.

Since I last wrote you we have come to a satisfactory understanding with the American Red-Cross, whereby the latter agree to assume all the expenses of the Hostels, excepting the cost of running the American Convalescent Homes. The management of the Hostels is left as before, and no change is made in our personnel. The Red Cross would have been glad to absorb also the Convalescent Homes into their general organisation for the relief of tuberculosis; but as the Red Cross organisation, which is on a very large scale, and planned chiefly for the future, is not yet complete, and as it was impossible for them to promise that our Homes would be reserved exclusively for refugees, our Committee decided to take the risk of keeping these Homes independent, and trying to raise funds for them in America till the end of the war. This decision was reached with the approval of Mr. Payne Whitney and Mr. Lewis Ledyard who had made the foundation of the Homes possible, and the Red Cross understand our reasons, and are in sympathy with them. With the prolongation of the war, medical care has come to be the first and chief need of the majority of our refugees, and there are so many cases of incipient tuberculosis among the women and children that if we had allowed these Homes to be absorbed into the general organisation of the Red-Cross we should have deprived our work among the refugees of fifty per cent of its usefulness.

The Convalescent Homes, which are situated at Croslay, near Paris, and at Arromanches in Normandy, care for 140 women and children, all drawn from the families who are assisted by the Hostels, and, in addition, for fifty children with tuberculosis.

November 16th 1917

Dear Mr. Ledyard,

I am just back from my long trip in Morocco and found
so many things to attend to on my arrival that I can only send
you a short word to say that the American Red Cross have agreed,
as I knew they would, to the sum of 150,000 francs being transfer-
red from the Tuberculous War-Victims Fund to our American
Convalescent Homes, as you and Mr. Payne Whitney had requested.

I will not expiate now on my immense joy at this gift,
as time presses and I wish to send this letter by the diplomatic
valise, but I enclose a copy of a letter which I am sending to
our New-York and Boston Committees, and which will show you what
a very interesting and flattering proposal the French Government
has just made to us. We are considering now whether we can
undertake it, and I hope we shall be able to do so. All this has
grown out of Groslay and more still is to come, for the Red Cross
has now proposed to help us in the management of the free Clinic
and Dispensary of the American Hostels, and to enlarge it in
order to deal with their own groups of refugees.

Will you please tell Mr. Whitney these good news, and
will you also let me know in the course of time whether you think
it would be possible to get from fifteen or sixteen people in
New-York a promise of a monthly subscription $100 to $500
for Groslay for the year 1918? Of course my sister-in-law is
going to start a campaign for it, but I know you could reach a
different center, and in view of the approval of the Red Cross
and the French Government, perhaps it might be possible to
interest a few new people in the work.

I hope Captain Moore found time to write you about his
visit to Groslay.

Yours sincerely and so gratefully

17 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous exprimer tout son regret de ne pouvoir collaborer à votre Oeuvre si intéressante mais les demandes de secours qui lui parviennent sont tellement nombreuses qu'elle a été obligée de faiblir la décision formelle de ne consacrer exclusivement à ses propres oeuvres.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire

P.S.-Veuillez trouver inclus la carte de membre que vous lui avez envoyée

Monsieur L. Loustalot
53, rue de Chateaudun
Paris.

17 Novembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Madame Wharton apprend par Monsieur Rodier que vous êtes en mesure d'entreprendre la reliure à nouveau, et comme elle a un assez grand nombre de livres à faire relier, elle vous serait extrêmement obligée si vous pouviez venir la voir lundi à 2.30 heures.

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire de bien vouloir lui faire savoir si cette heure vous convient.

Agréez, Mademoiselle, mes salutations empressées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Mademoiselle Brisson
68, rue du Cardinal Lemoine

17 Novembre 1917

Madame,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous
demander d'avoir la bonté de venir la
voir demain dimanche à 3.30 heures, si
vous pouvez disposer d'un instant.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes salutations respectueuses.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire

19 November, 1917

Dear Madam,

I have just been informed by Mrs.Sharp that I have been elected a member of the Honorary Board of the Women's War Relief Corps.

Will you kindly request that my name shall be entered on your Committee list as Mrs.Wharton, and _not_ as "Mrs.Edith Wharton"?

Thanking you in advance, I am,

Yours sincerely

To the Secretary of the
Women's War Relief Corps
5, rue François Ier
Paris.

17 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton vous serait très obligée
si vous pouviez venir la voir demain dimanche
entre 11 heures et midi, puur vous parler
d'un travail qu'elle voudrait faire faire
chez elle.

Madame Wharton espère que cela ne vous
dérangera pas trop de venir un dimanche, et
elle vous prie de l'excuser de vous fixer ce
jour-là.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes saluta-
tions distinguées.

Pr. Madame Wharton:

Secrétaire

Monsieur Vincent
83, rue du Bac.

21 Novembre 1910

Madame,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous accuser
réception de votre lettre du 19 courant, à
laquelle elle regrette beaucoup ne pouvoir
répondre elle-même.

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire
qu'elle n'a pas besoin, pour le moment, de
propriété pour ses Oeuvres, mais elle ne
manquera pas de se rappeler de votre offre
si elle entend parler d'une Oeuvre suscep-
tible de la prendre en considération.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes salutations
les plus distinguées.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Madame la Baronne de Silvestre
25, rue de l'Arcade
Paris.

20 Novembre 1917

Dear Mr. Knight,

So many thanks for your kind note and
the information you send me about the
Château de Boissise.

I think I should prefer a house with
a more interesting exterior and one nearer
to a forest, if possible.

If you hear of anything else near
Fontainebleau, I should be so glad if you
would let me know.

Yours sincerely

21 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire que la propriété que vous lui proposez par votre lettre du 20 courant pourrait peut-être l'intéresser, et elle vous serait très obligée de bien vouloir lui envoyer des photographies.

En principe, Madame Wharton serait très heureuse que vous lui envoyiez de suite les photographies des maisons en même temps que votre proposition, afin de ne pas prandre de temps, et vous pouvez être certain qu'elle vous les retournera sans délai.

Veuillez croire, Monsieur, à mes salutations distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Monsieur Millot
95, rue St-Lazare
Paris.

21 November 1917

Dear Blair,

I am so sorry that you have been worried
about the letter to the Tuberculeux. I have
not had time to re-write it and consequently
Miss Herbert knew nothing about it. I will
attend to it next week.

I hope you are having a good rest and
wish that I were with you.

Yours affectionately

5588

SERVICE IMMOBILIER DE LA VIE A LA CAMPAGNE
RENSEIGNEMENTS STRICTEMENT CONFIDENTIELS

SEINE ET OISE.- VALLEE DE CHEVREUSE- JOLIE PROPRIETE d'agrément
dite "LEPRIEURE" sise à 30 kil de PARIS, près gares ,dans pays
de toutes ressources

Cette propriété comprend:

GRANDE HABITATION de maitres époque DIRECTOIRE avec ailes moderne
du même style ,le tout remis entièrement à neufil y a une dizaine
d'annéeset distribuée comme suit:

SQU-SOL: Caves, caveaux, calorifere

REZ-DE-CHAUSSEE. Vestibule, salle de billard, Grand et petit salons
belle salle à manger, cuisine, 2 offices, Salle des gens, W.C. et un
appartement de maitres de deux pièces avec cabinet de toilette.

TER ETAGE: 10 chambres de maitres, 6 cabinets de toilette, salle de bains, 2 W.C.

2 e ETAGE: 5 chambres de domestiques, et dans l'aile, 2 chambres de maitres, atelier, Fumoir en tourelle.

Poste d'eau chaude & froide- Facilité d'avoir l'électricité.par
secteur.

COMMUNS: Maison de jardinier, remise pour 2 autos, ou 3 voitures,
Courie pour 2 chevaux, buanderie, repasserie, etc ...SERRE

JARDIN D'AGREMENT et grand potager-fruitier.

PARC bien dessiné avec larges allées descendant jusqu'à 1 (YVETTE
Tres-belle allée de l'autre côté de la riviere conduisant à la gare.
PRAIRIE.

Ensemble 3 hectares environ.

Facilité de s'agrandir.

PRIX: 150.000 fcs à débattre

----------------------------------:

21 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton a bien reçu votre
lettre du 16 courant et elle me prie
de faire toutes ses excuses parce qu'elle
ne peut y répondre elle-même.

Madame Wharton me charge de vous
dire qu'à son regret elle ne podsède
aucune photographie d'éole qui puisse
vous servir, et que, du reste, elle
préfère ne pas être représentée au
Panthéon de la Guerre, que vous comptez
consacrer aux Oeuvres de Guerre.

Madame Wharton me prie de vous
remercier de votre proposition, et je
vous présente, Monsieur, mes saluta-
tions les plus distinguées.

Pr.Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Monsieur Carrier-Belleuse
148, rue de l'Université
Paris.

21 Novembre 1917

Mohsieur,

Madame Wharton me charge de vous dire qu'elle a bien reçu votre lettre du 15 courant, au sujet d'une publication intitulée "Cahiers Britanniques et Américains".

Madame Wharton voit avec surprise que vous annoncez dans le prospectus de cette publication que vous avez l'intention de publier des volumes-unes de ses œuvres. Madame Wharton me prie de vous dire, d'une façon formelle, qu'elle ne vous a pas accordé l'autorisation de faire cette annonce, ni de traduire et publier quoi que ce soit d'elle.

Madame Wharton est persuadée que c'est par erreur que son nom a été publié dans la liste de vos auteurs, mais dans le cas contraire elle vous prie de prendre bonne note de la présente.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes salutations empressées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Monsieur Georges-Basile Jules Brochard de Saron

23 Décembre 1917

Dear Madam,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to send you her
warmest thanks for your generous gift of
573,50 francs, which she is devoting to
the "American Convalescent Homes".

Please find the receipt of same enclosed

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary.

Miss K.E.Turnbull
Princeton
N.J.

26 Novembre 1917

Madame Wharton a bien reçu votre lettre du 18 courant, et me prie de vous dire combien elle regrette de ne pas pouvoir participer à votre œuvre, comme vous le lui demandez!

Madame Wharton a déjà de nombreuses œuvres dont elle s'occupe personnellement et activement, et de plus elle organise une vente pour son Ouvroir, ce qui ne lui permet pas de vous envoyer quoi que ce soit pour votre vente de Charité.

Veuillez agréer, Madame, avec tous
nos regrets, nos salutations les plus
distinguées.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

Secrétaire.

Mademoiselle S. Labourdette
3, rue Constance
Paris.

November 26th 1917

Dear Marie,

As you know, the management of the Sanatoria of the Tuberculeux de la Guerre, has passed into the hands of the American Red Cross. I wrote at once recommending M. Devaux and they promised to send an Infirmière-Visiteuse to see him and report to me. I waited a reasonable length of time and then wrote to ask if anyone had been to see him.

As I had suspected nothing had been done. The organisation of the Red-Cross is still very incomplete, and all I can do is to call their attention again to the case of M. Devaux and urge them to look it up at once, and let me know what had better be done.

I am dictating this in great haste in order that you shall not think that I have neglected your protégé. I am so sorry but I think in a few weeks everything will be working well again. Meanwhile, if nothing can be done by the Red Cross I will send him to Dr. Kuss's Clinic.

Yours affectionately

28 Novembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous renvoyer ci-inclus les deux photographies que vous avez bien voulu lui soumettre de la propriété "Le Prieuré".

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

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire

Monsieur Millot
95, rue Saint-Lazare
Paris.

November 29th 1917

Dear Miss Clark,

I enclose a copy of my letter of
October 31st, in case it may not have
reached you.

You will see that my delay in thank-
ing you was caused by my absence in
Morocco where it was impossible to have
my letters sent after me.

No one could be more appreciative
than I am of your unfailing generosity,
and I am so sorry that owing to my
absence you had the impression that your
last gift had not reached me.

I should like to write more but I am
terribly busy and can only send you once
again my warmest thanks.

Yours very sincerely

Miss E. Mabel Clark
831 Madison Avenue
New-York.

November 26th 1917

Dear Mr. Whitlock,

Many thanks for your letter, and please excuse my being
obliged to dictate this reply as my hand is rather lame.

It was a great regret not to see you the other evening,
and I am sorry you are not to be here tonight to dine with
Colonel House.

It will be very kind if you will find out as soon as possible whether the Belgian Food Commission will distribute clothing in Belgium. If so, I will cable my appeal at once to America.

I want to get the signatures of two or three Americans
who have worked hard on War-Charities in America and are now
here working over the ground. Mrs. August Belmont, of the New-
York Committee of Mercy, is here, and has promised to sign, and
I shall try for two or three more well-known names. Your signa-
ture would help more than any other, and I hope there is no
official obstacle to your giving it.

I enclose the cable I propose to send, and shall be most
grateful if you will suggest any changes. Please make the appeal
as much stronger as you can, putting in as many facts as possible.
Would it be well to say that the Germans have taken all the
linen, blankets and carpets at Antwerp, and torn off all the
window-fastenings, door-knobs, bronze and brass fittings of
every kind in the houses of Brussels? Or is it better to stick
to the mere need of clothing? Any suggestion from you will be
most helpful, and I do so hope you will sign with us. If, how-
ever, you approve of the cable as it stands, and will sign it,
will you wire me, to save time?

I count on your promise to let me know in advance when you
are coming back to Paris.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Whitlock,

Yours sincerely

November 26th 1917

Dear Mr. Whitlock,

November 29th 1917

Dear Minnie,

Your letter of November 9th has just come, and I am so delighted to hear of the success you have had in getting money for us, and also of the brilliant prospects of the bazaar.

Mr. Nelson Robinson is indeed our guardian-angel, and though I know that letters bore him I must really thank him for this last donation of $500 to pay the duties on the lingerie.

I hope, by the way, the last instalment reached you safely. It ought to have been in your hands the day the bazaar opened. I think I told you that the total amount sent represented a little over 5.000 frs. at the prices for which we sell it here; but I hope the lady from Altman's raised the prices sufficiently to cover the duties.

I am delighted to hear that the Refugees War Relief Fund has given us $2.000, but I am very sorry that they are closing, as they have given us $500 a month for nearly a year, and I dislike to be thrown to a still greater extent on the tender mercies of the Red-Cross. I say nothing more because we receive assistance from them, but when this is all over and we meet again, I will tell you something of their methods in France.

And now, with regard to the sending of the money!

1. Please bear in mind that although I do not intend to take a very active part in our war-work for the next few months I prefer to have all sums of money sent to me and all questions concerning money referred to me, as Elisina is very busy and does not know about this branch of the work which has always been in my hands.

2. I received the day before yesterday a notice from Munroe that you had transmitted by cable 5.705 frs. designated as Newhaus Charity; but I have had no notice of the sum of 6.879 frs., of which you enclose a memorandum in your letter. This sum is made up of Mr. Nelson Robinson's monthly donation of $1.000, and Olivia Cutting's two months subscription of $100 a month. It is very difficult to send you receipts since you have been

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cabling the money instead of sending me cheques, for the cable
remittances do not follow the same sequence as your announcement
of sums received. The only thing I can do is to send you a
batch of receipts at the end of each month in accordance with
the notices I receive from the bank.

I think this is all the business that is necessary for the
moment. I have been trying to get the figures for the reports
of the American Hostels and the Children of Flanders from the
poor over-worked Elisina, and I hope to have them ready for
to-morrow's mail; but we are hopelessly incomplete by our
association with the Red Cross that I am not sure of anything.
I realise how our benefactors must clamour for details and
figures, and can only ask you to tell them, that, as I think I
wrote you in my last letter, the French Government has asked us
to create three hospitals on the type of Groslay and ~~practical
ly given us "carte blanche" in the way of money and management.
This is a contrast to Red-Cross methods.

Yes, I saw the Punch review of Summer. Macmillan writes me
that it is having a great success in England, where it is
judged on more literary grounds than in America. Please do not
worry about my quarterly remittance to you, for my literary
affairs are prosperous, and I am delighted to be of this small
use to you. I am exceedingly sorry to hear that Harry Munroe
is ill and will write a line to Alice. I hope by this time his
eyes are better.

I am completely swamped by American arrivals here and
shall probably have to go south in a few weeks to get a rest
and write my book on Morocco, for there seems no hope of being
able to do it here at present.

I enclose with this a line to Herman about Christmas
presents and a small parcel of war-souvenirs which I will ask
you to distribute to the friends whose names are written on the
parcels.

How I wish we could all be together for Christmas at
least! My letter to you all and my ever-increasing gratitude
and admiration to you for all you have done to help me and the
cause. The next year ought to see us out of this blackness.

Yours ver affectionately

30 Novembre 1917

Mademoiselle,

Veuillez avoir l'obligeance de venir
chez Madame Wharton, demain samedi à
deux heures.

Pr. Mrs. Wharton:

Secrétaire

Mademoiselle Dubois
27, rue du Mail
Paris.

November 30th 1917

Dear Mr. Hyde,

I enclose a copy of a note I have just written to Professor Nettleton explaining to him that as Mrs. Berenson is to be away for over a month, and as I cannot undertake to replace her, I have advised Madame Borel to try to affiliate herself with the group headed by Madame de Billy.

I am sure that you and Mr. Nettleton will both help her with your advice and that this solution will be the best.

Yours very sincerely

J.H.Hyde Esqr
38, rue Barbet de Jouy
Paris.

1er Décembre 1917

Cher ami,

Je m'adresse à vous dans l'espoir que vous pourrez obtenir, par l'intervention de Monsieur le Ministre de l'Intérieur, assez d'essence pour nous permettre de transporter d'urgence une provision de charbon à nos Maisons de Convalescence à Croslay. Ainsi que vous le savez, ces maisons hospitalisent 110 femmes et enfants réfugiés, tuberculeux et pré-tuberculeux. Dans la première catégorie nous avons plusieurs personnes gravement atteintes, et si nous ne pouvons pas transporter du charbon pendant la semaine courante, nous serons obligés de fermer ces deux maisons et de mettre nos malades à la porte.

Monsieur le Préfet de Seine-et-Oise, qui s'intéresse beaucoup à notre Oeuvre, a being procurer du charbon, mais ce charbon se trouve à Versailles, et la disette d'essence nous empêche de le faire chercher. Il est impossible d'envoyer ce charbon par chemin de fer à cause des retards et du transport de la gare à nos maisons; il est donc absolument urgent que nous ayons de l'essence afin de le transporter avec notre camion.

La Préfecture de Police nous a toujours accordé un minimum de 400 litres par mois pour le camionnage du charbon, des denrées alimentaires et du linge pour nos deux maisons de Croslay, et pour nos quatre maisons de l'Oeuvre des Enfants des Flandres, à Paris, St-Ouen, Sèvres et Montsoult. Si nous ne recevons plus d'essence nous serons obligés de fermer toutes ces maisons, sauf celle de Paris, mais le cas le plus grave est celui de Croslay où le charbon nous fait absolument défaut.

Je vous prie donc, cher ami, de faire votre possible pour obtenir que Monsieur le Ministre de l'Intérieur ait la bonté de nous accorder d'urgence un bon d'essence d'au moins 300 litres.

Mon souvenir le meilleur.

Since writing I have received two letters from Elisina, one of which was five days on the way.

In it she says that she has been to the Red Cross to see Dr. Garvin (Aid of the department on tuberculosis) and asked him for a financial help for Groslay and Arromanches. She had previously spoken to Mr. Davidson on the subject and had received an encouraging answer. Elizabeth Hoyet was present at her interview with Dr. Garvin, and the latter is in favour on the Red Cross giving assistance to Groslay provided that the French government agrees to purchase it eventually and carry on the work.

In these circumstances, I do not like to send Elizabeth the letter of which I sent you a draught yesterday without first consulting Elisina, who may think it injudicious to give the Red Cross a pretext for turning sulky again. I still think it necessary to deal with Miss Curtis, especially if Elisina persists in her plan of going to America; but I wish, at any rate, to show her the letter before it is sent, as it might be embarrassing for her to be confronted with it at her next interview with Elizabeth. I am therefore sending a copy of my letter to her with a line of explanation, and in the meantime, will you simply tell me what you think of it and then hold it until you hear from me definitely?

In her letter of February 7th Elisina says: "The auditor from Warwick Mitchell, who is here, has told me that he has never seen in any Oeuvres books so well kept as our Hostels' books which are the only ones he has examined so far". She is naturally very much pleased at this repetition of their former approval, and I find that, in spite of the announced visit of the Red Cross accountant, she is still keen to go to America. She has received a decidedly encouraging letter from Minnie, and the only remaining difficulty is the question of expenses. I wrote her the other day, before getting her letter, to say how absurdly sensitive American Committees were on this subject since two or three swindlers had made pleasure trips at their expenses in the early part of the war; but as Elisina wishes to bear part of the expense of her trip I cannot say more to discourage her, especially as all credit for the good management of our three charities belongs to her, and it would be very grudging of me to seem to oppose her going to America to tell the story of what she has accomplished."

I am sure you will agree with me and will feel that I must leave it to her to decide. I have told her that I think she ought to be here when the Lafayette accountant comes, and to this she will undoubtedly agree, but as I suppose he is on the way this will not mean a long delay.

Mr. Berry.

encouraging
another!

P.S.- With regard to the Red Cross and Yerres I can only suggest what I have always proposed before; that the Red Cross should hand back Yerres to the Tuberculeux de la Guerre, who could then either give it to the American Convalescent Homes, or else to the "Office Public d'Hygiène Sociale de la Seine", who would probably hand it over to the Convalescent Homes. As they are now negotiating to buy Taverny in order to place it under our management they would probably prefer to give us a fully equipped place. At any rate, I think we ought to insist on Yerres being handed back to the Tuberculeux Committee, and to call a meeting of that Committee to examine the subject if necessary.

2 Décembre 1917

Monsieur,

Madame Wharton me prie de vous rappeler que vous deviez lui envoyer les épreuves de la planchette que je vous ai apportée à imprimer mardi dernier. Elle est très ennuyée de ne pas les avoir reçues et compte les avoir demain matin sans faute.

Je passerai demain lundi à midi pour vous donner une autre commande très urgente, et j'espère vous trouver à votre bureau.

Pr.Mrs.Wharton:

December 2nd, 1917

Dear Mr. Grigs,

I have prepared my list of candidates for the "Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française", but before sending it In should like to have a few moments talk with you if possible.

Could you call me up on the telephone to-morrow Monday morning before 11, and make an appointment to come and see me?

Thank you in advance, and believe me,

Yours very truly

3 Décembre 1917

Cher Monsieur,

J'ai bien reçu votre lettre du 30
Novembre, et je viens d'envoyer à Messieurs
Munroe & C° la lettre dont je vous remets
une copie ci-inclus.

Vous dites dans votre lettre que M. de
Gieystor, en cas d'absence ou de maladie,
doit pouvoir déléguer sa signature à un des
membres du Comité des Finances. Je crois
qu'il valait mieux donner votre nom et ceux
de M. et Mme Royall Tyler comme les délé-
gués les plus probables en pareil cas.

J'ai prié MM. Munroe de prendre note
de cet avis, et dès que j'aurai leur réponse
je vous en enverrai une copie.

Monsieur le Baron del Marmol

December 3rd 1917

Mrs. Wharton bags to inform Mr. Brigg that about a month ago she took to his shop to be repaired an umbrella which she had bought from him and of which the spring was broken. The umbrella was promised in three days, and after waiting eight days Mrs. Wharton sent for it. The woman in the shop said it had come back from the workroom but that she had mislaid it. After another delay of a day or two it was returned to Mrs. Wharton, having been kept altogether ten days.

Last week Mrs. Wharton took it out for the first time and on opening it in the rain she found that the repair had not been made, and that the umbrella would not stay open. As it was raining hard and Mrs. Wharton was on foot, she went at once to your shop and explained the circumstances to the woman and to one of your clerks who was also present, and asked for the loan of an umbrella for an hour. The woman replied that she was very sorry but she could not lend an umbrella to Mrs. Wharton as there were none in the shop. Mrs. Wharton mentioned that she has been a client of your house for at least twenty years, and as she saw about 100 umbrellas before her eyes, she could not understand the answer. The reply was that it was impossible to lend her a new umbrella for an hour as she might damage it. This statement was acknowledged by the clerk.

Mrs. Wharton left the shop taking her broken umbrella away and she now writes to Mr. Brigg in the firm belief that he would not wish to have a client treated by his representatives with such discourtesy. He is probably aware that there is not a dressmaker or a milliner who would not lend a cloak or a hat for an hour to a well-known customer in a similar case, and especially when the whole fault was with his own employés who had failed to have the necessary repairs made to an article bought in his own shop.

December 5th 1917

Dear Miss Weeks,

Many thanks for your note.

I am very glad you have found work so congenial to you as that of a Y.M.C.A. canteen. I am sure your help will be invaluable to the Y.M.C.A. workers, and as you know I have never concealed from you, nor from Winifred, the fact that a thorough knowledge of French seemed to me essential in all refugee work.

I can quite understand your feeling of helplessness and hopelessness of struggling from the problem at 63, Champs Elysées, and I am delighted to know that you have found so satisfactory a solution.

Let me thank you again for having wishe to work with me, and also for the kind things you say of our organisation, nearly all of which I must pass on to Mrs.Tyler, who deserves nine tenths of the credit.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely

Charlotte T.Weeks.