The Red Rugs of Tarsus: A Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Red Rugs of Tarsus, by Helen Davenport Gibbons

THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS


NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1917

Copyright, 1917, by The Century Co. ———— Published, April, 1917

TO The Memory of C. H. M. DOUGHTY-WYLIE, V.C. THE MAJOR OF THIS BOOK Who was killed in action leading a charge on Gallipoli Peninsula, April 29, 1915

When I was a Freshman at Bryn Mawr I decided I should write something. My girlhood was uneventful and joyous—the girlhood of the lucky American who has a wholesome good time. I knew I must wait for experience. I was too sensitive about my youth to expose what I was thinking, for fear they would know I was not grown up.