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Marjorie Crocker    Esther Sayles Root

The authors of these letters are two youngAmerican girls, one from New York and theother from Boston.

They first met in Paris, each having volunteeredher services to the Rev. and Mrs. ErnestW. Shurtleff, to aid in relief work among therefugees, or, as Dr. Shurtleff expressed it, “Tohelp in our effort to get under part of the burdenof humanity.”

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

To me they are revealing of the spirit offeminine young America—a brave and self-sacrificingspirit which shines out through irrepressibleyouthful humor and vivacity, and isa worthy complement to the unquestioning andunquestioned valor shown by the brothers ofsuch girls to-day.