Over Periscope Pond / Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 - 1

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Over Periscope Pond, by Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker

Marjorie Crocker Esther Sayles Root

OVER PERISCOPE POND

Letters

from Two American Girls in Paris

October 1916-January 1918

BY ESTHER SAYLES ROOT

AND MARJORIE CROCKER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON & NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1918

Published April 1918

FOREWORD

The authors of these letters are two young American girls, one from New York and the other from Boston.

They first met in Paris, each having volunteered her services to the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest W. Shurtleff, to aid in relief work among the refugees, or, as Dr. Shurtleff expressed it, “To help in our effort to get under part of the burden of humanity.”

The letters were written (as is evident) for the family eye only, and consent to their publication has been given by cable with much hesitation.

To me they are revealing of the spirit of feminine young America—a brave and self-sacrificing spirit which shines out through irrepressible youthful humor and vivacity, and is a worthy complement to the unquestioning and unquestioned valor shown by the brothers of such girls to-day.

Clara Louise Burnham.

CONTENTS

[Foreword by Clara Louise Burnham]

[VIII. From Marjorie]

[IX. From Marjorie]