Letters begin in March 1918 primarily to her parents as she sets sail to France to work for the Society of Friends, Friends' War Victims Relief Committee and describe her work and life, including French lessons, and other personnel, as well as occasional descriptions of the area in which she is working and life outside her own work, interspersed with some snapshots and some sketches.

Highlights of the letters include:

1918 4/15. Will be assisting with feeding and finding temporary places for incoming refugees; her destination is Sermaize

1918 4/18. Description of process of distributing food, workforce

1918 5/26. Description of some days' work

1918 7/23. Writing from Troyes describing work to assist English wounded and receiving aid; list of shortages

1918 8/18. One reason for taking on the work was to avoid marrying someone she didn't really love

1918 8/25. Mission has a concern for the effect on them of the merging of the Red Cross Civilian and military forces

1918 9 or 10. Lengthy description of area near Chamounix and a climbing trip

1918 11/16. Description of events after the end of war.

1918 12/2. Pres. Wilson and politics

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Beginning in July, letters to her parents relate her travel home to the U.S., including stop in London; several snapshots included

Highlights include:

1920 8/9. Information about a man named Sidney who worked with her Mission, but was bent on aiding humanity

1920 10/20. Although no location is given, BH is in Germany and mentions William Albright and locations of several other Friends in Europe

undated, but likely 1920 October. A review of a typical day's events and food; also references to the Russo-Polish War with the Poles attempting to return to an 18th-century boundary and destruction of Minsk; a detailed and long letter

1920 12/19. Traveled to Berlin to attend the Quaker conference; at the Eves met Madame Lomonosov, wife of the head of the Railway Dept. in Soviet Union, who had held the post in Czarist, then Kerensky's and now Soviet times; has seen and assisted Fred Libby

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This album was originally titled "The Journey of my Youth - 1922 and 1923. Europe, the Middle East, and India and China." There were blank pages after sheets 16 and 33.

This album/volume contains c. 200 unidentified photos, mostly of local scenery, architecture, and some candid shots of people in the streets.

There is also one note, which is no longer entirely accurate, but reads:

My friend Melvin Brorby and I left Paris in the summer of 1922 to explore Germany and the countries of central Europe. We attended the second Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, went to the Saar Valley while it was under the government of the League; were present at the great economic conference at Rapallo, stayed quite a while in Florence and generally discovered Italy. Took a cargo boat down the Dalmatian coast to Athens. There followed a whole wonderful discovery of Greece, Constantinople at the very end of the Turkish-Greek war, the coast of Asia Minor, and so to Damascus and Palestine, then under British Mandate Egypt, and by cargo boat on which we stowed away from Post Said to Bombay. In India we remained a full year, a year too full to relate here, but some notion of this can be had from the three books of photographs in this collection. Finally, we left India in January 1924 to return to America by way of Burma, Singapore, China and Japan. The pictures of this part of our adventures are in one volume altogether.

[This same note also specified that the photographs were in Six Volumes, which is no longer true as there are twelve volumes, but gave the titles of the volumes as: "Europe 1922," "The Middle East and Greece, Egypt," 3 volumes titled "India," and "Burma, Singapore, China and Japan."]

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This album was originally named "Brahmaputra in Himalayas." It was separated into six parts, each part introduced by a note about the location at which the following photos were taken.

Each part to this album began with a note about the location where the photos in that part were taken.

Part A contains c. 60 unidentified photos, mostly of scenery and people.

Note: A. The Valley of the Brahmaputra Out of the high Himalayas the Brahmaputra sweeps into Assam, giving it life and sustenance. Along its banks, from Dibrugarh to Goalundo, rice and jute and tea are grown to be sent to the far corners of the world, and thatch gatherers sit in the late evening singing their songs. Tiny boats of every description drift by hundreds on the broad bosom of the river, and the countless folk who live in thatched houses and raise their little plots of mustard, are chiefly busy with thoughts of crops and thoughts of babies, with the realities of life. The Temple of Kamakhya, where the goddess Kali is worshipped, looks down from its high hill upon a beautiful city of Gauhati, the City of Eastern Astrology, where now there is a University. Here is the center of the intellectual life of the province. The valley of the Brahmaputra is broad and very flat. During flood season the river often reaches a width of nine to ten miles, while in the winter it recedes and becomes very shallow. In modern days there is a good steamboat service all the way to Calcutta, and a railroad connects the very northeast corner with Bengal and the outside world. The peoples of Assam are of varied origin, being chiefly of Indo-Chinese stock. There has been, however, an incoming of Aryan Hindus from the south, and these have given the language spoken in the plains, Assamese, which is derived from the Sanskrit.

Part B contains c. 40 photos, mostly of people performing what is assumed to be every-day tasks, although the photos are unidentified.

Note: B. The Nagas. The hilly tract east of the Brahmaputra valley is inhabited by tribes known collectively as the Nagas, which in the Assamese means 'naked '. They belong to the second wave of emigration into Assam, that of the Tibeto-Burmans, from the traditional cradle of the Indo-Chinese race inNorth [sic] Western China. There are six chief tribes, the Angamis, the Aos, the Lhotas, the Rengmas, the Kachas, and the Semas. Generally speaking they are tall, fine looking people, especially the Angamis, and being a hill-top folk they have precerved [sic] a certain air of freedom and distinction. They grow rice as their staple food, and the Angamis have the art of terracing the hill sides. The Lhotas are cotton growers, and all the tribes are meat eaters and drinkers of what the Angamis call 'zu', a liquor made from rice. In 1866 the British took possession of the village of Kohima and spread its control throughout the whole territory. Before their coming the Nagas were a head hunting race, but this has been changed during the last years, although frontier tribes still practice the art of taking their enemy's scalp. The Nagas are a genial folk and extremely hospitable though below their rather happy exterior there is a melancholy which arises from a rather profound realization of the brevity of life, and from the fear of death.

Part C has c. 10 photos, which are unidentified but clearly show the Durga Puja (festival), and one photo of a waterfall.

Note: C. The Durga Puja. The word Puja in Hindi means festival. Each year the greatest of all the pujas is a land of continuous festivals is that held in honor of the goddess Durga. In the Hindu pantheon Durga is the Shakti or wife of the god, Siva, the Destroyer. In Shillong, the capital of Assam, the Gurka troops of the Bristish-India army stationed there, held a great puja, for they are Napalese and most devout. Great crowds gathered in an amphitheater-like place near the city where the sacrifice took place; there was dancing by those specially trained; and after the dao had been blessed by the priests, the mantras said, and all made ready, twnety [sic] buffalo were offered to the goddess. The costumes of the women were brilliant for the Napalese like much color, and each one appeared with all of her jewelry upon her. Surely the goddess must have been pleased by so great a display of devotion, by so great a sign of joy.

Part D consists of c. 10 photos, all unidentified and somewhat distant shots of people, a few of scenery.

Note: D. Manipur. Manipur is the only large feuditory [sic] state in Assam. It is ruled over by a Maharaja at the will of the British Government, and a political agent, residing at Imphal, is the representative. A military force is kept within the frontier. The Manipuries are Indo-Chinese folk, though there is a certain fusion of Aryan Hindu blood. They, like many of the peoples who have lately come into India, have only recently been brought into the Hindu fold. And because they are recent converts they are particularly bigoted. The women are fine looking, with high, firm, almost Athenian brests [sic]. They carry their burdens on the head as plains people do, for Manupur is a plateau land, and each day one sees long lines of white clad folk streaming toward Imphal, the capital, to buy and sell in the great bazaar. And this bazaar is wonderful with its many colors, its different types of people, and its varied sights and smells. Often there is dancing, for Manipur is famous for its dancing girls; and sometimes there is polo for this is the traditional home of that sport of Maharajas and Raj Kumars.

Part E contains c. 15 unidentified photos of people and scenery.

Note: E. Shillong. Up in the dry Khasi Hills of the Assam Shillong has become the capital of the province. It is a beautiful place with its pine forests and its surrounding hills, and here to come many people from the plains to escape the frightful heat of the dry season and oppression of the late monsoon. For Shillong is five thousand feet high and thus is termed as India's Hill Stations. Her Highness the Maharani Mourbhanj has her summer home in this cold retreat. She likes its quiet, she likes its cold, running streams in the pine jungles, to which she escapes on crist [sic] autumn mornings to paddle and feel the nearness of the trees, and stones, and birds. She is altogether Indian in her love of nature, and she could altogether the example of Indian womanhood at its best.

Part F contains c. 55 unidentified photos, of one or several gatherings with a crowd of seated people, small groups lounging or working in front of buildings, and scenery, including mountain horizons.

Note: F. The Khasis Up in the pine forests of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills southeast of the great Brahmaputra valley, there live a folk whose chief claim to distinction is that the basis of society is the reverse of ordinary humanity's way of life. Their's [sic] is a matriarchate of which there are but few other examples in the word: women inherit, women are the heads of homes, clans take their names from the female ancestors, and in the mythology of the land women are the dominant theme. The Khasis are probably the most advances in modern culture of all the hill tribes of Assam, far surpassing the Nagas to the east, and their neighbors, the Garos, to the west. Christian missionaries and the British government at Shillong have been the chief causes of this. One wonders is the coming of European customs and prejudices along with the simple teachings of Christ is not causing too great a loss of the native, naive qualities of a primitive people.

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This album was originally titled "India." It was separated into four parts, each part introduced by a note about the location at which the following photos were taken.

Each part to this album began with a note about the location where the photos in that part were taken.

Part A contains c. 45 photos, all unidentified but some clearly showing scenes from the Ganga Sagor Mela, and some taken on a (western) ship.

Note: A. The Ganga Sagor Mela. On the waste island of Sagor, which lies at the very spot where the Holy river Ganges flows into the sea, thousands of Hindus yearly come to hold here a great religious mela or festival. The Puranas tell of how the Goddess Ganges flowed out of the high Himalayas in the north to wash the great plain of India, and of how one man, through his supplication and renunciation, had persuaded her to lave [sic] the ashes of his sixty brethren [sic] upon this very island, that their souls should be set free from sin. Sadhus of every sect come by hundreds with the pilgrims, and these holy men can be seen performing ascetic feats along the bazaas [sic] and upon the water front. The great moment of the festival, however, is on the day when the sun makes its passage from the constellation of Sagittarius to that or Capricorn. Then all go into the sacred river to bathe and wash themselves of their sins. This is an act of devotion and through it one gains much merit.

Part B contains c. 20 unidentified photos, mostly of people including some participating in a ceremony, and some of local scenes, presumably the Ashram school building.

Note: B. Santiniketan. On the great plains of north Bengal the poet of India, Rabindranath Tagore, has created an Ashram or school, which is at once a revolt against the stultifying atmosphere of the Government schools and colleges, and an attempt to build an education in India for Indians which will be based on the finest things of both the East and the West. It is essentially synthetic. The material side of Santiniketan is not at all developed so that classes are held in the shade of the sal and palm trees or in the thatched houses of the ashram during the rains of the monsoon. The very practical side of the work is carried on by what is known as the Village Reconstruction Department where agriculture is taught and a real contact is made between the theoretical and cultural training and life as it is lived in the countless tiny villages of the surrounding country.

Part C contains c. 30 unidentified photos, of people and a few of animals, and of local scenes.

Note: C. Tea Gardens of the Duars. In north Bengal, under the Bhutan hills, there is a flat country cut across by the many rivers which flow out of the mountains. Here are many tea gardens, and in the jungles which hedge in on all sides are tiger and elephant, leopard and wild boar. This is one of Indias [sic] choice hunting grounds, and besides the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, who comes with a great retinue upon elephants to hold a beat, the planters of the district getin [sic] their own shikkar and have many tiger to their credit. During the monsoon the most terrific thunderstorms sweep the country, and at night as the black clouds climb up into the Bhutan hills and the peals of thunder grow faint there breaks through the growing hush the distracted cry of the Make-more-Pecoe Bird and an answer from his mate in some far off recess of the jungle, faint but reassuring. There is something gloriously beautiful in these symphonies of the large out of doors, their tremendous climaxes, their simple notes of romance which bring peace out of storms.

Part D contains c. 40 unidentified photos, mostly of people, candid and full portraits, and some of scenery, and notes.

Note: D. Darjeeling. It is said that Darjeeling is one of the beauty spots of the world, and no doubt it is. Seven thousand feet up from the plains it looks out upon the towering snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas which pinnacle to Mt.Everest [sic]. It is beautiful, and moreover it is most interesting. For here gather in its great bazaar the hill's folk from from [sic] Bhutan, Napal [sic], Thibet [sic]; and here come men from Bengal and Assam. The summer Capital of Bengal is likewise at Darjeeling, and this brings with the Governor General the English society of Calcutta to deck the cheifest of all hill stations next to Simla. The hill's people are as a rule very fond of color and of decorating their women folk with as much jewelry as possible. The wealth of a family is carried about a woman's neck or hanging from her ears there being only one danger of a bank failure, the ever and great possibility of her eloping with another man.

Note:

Calcutta 1922 There were among the friends [Mil?] and I made while in Calcutta, [Barhim] Mukerji et al Barhim we saw again in 1952 - Beulah + I when we visited Calcutta from [Barpali].

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This volume has been labeled both "Volume IV" and "Volume VI Malasia [sic]." It is assumed that this is "6: Burma, Singapore, China and Japan," which is referred to in the opening note (located with Volume I). There were originally blank pages after sheets 11 and 23.

3 of the photos and the postcard from this album were not originally glued in, but had been placed between pages. Those have been added after the pages they were placed with, preserving order.

This album contains c. 135 unidentified photographs of people, candid and portrait, local scenery including waterfronts (buildings on stilts, fleets of small boats), streetscapes, architecture, wooded and mountain landscapes including the Great Wall of China, and a few concluding photos of a western steamship. There was one postcard included.

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This volume had different titles, but for the sake of consistency it is now Volume VII. There were blank pages after 23, between 34 front and back, after 58, (two blank pages) after 71, after 74, and 80. Folder 1 includes sheets 1-30. Folder 2 includes sheets 31-60. Folder 3 includes sheets 61-86.

The photos in this album were taken in Europe, 1918-1922. Some of the information for this album includes:

Paris, 1918. These photos are mostly taken of tourist sites, including Notre Dame, Champs-Elysées, Cathedral of Sacre-Coeur, Luxembourg Gardens, and Chartre.

Vienna, 1919. These photos are of sites, including the largest market Vienna, Belvedere Palace, warehouses, and Meidling Hospital, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Ruins at Schönbrunn, the old Kaisers summer home, the Parliament Building.

Eastern and southern Poland, Hungary, Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin and Hindelberg).

Russia, 1922. These photos concentrate on a food caravan, which went from Alexievka to Matvievsky (or Matveivska). Other locations include, Sorotchinskoe, Gerasimovka [Gerasimova], Buzuluk, Totskoe. Some names include M.E.W., Morosky Mucha André, P.K.A., Lampson, Poilya, Douchya, D. North, Ervina, and Tartar.

There is a section titled "Société des amis [Society of Friends] - Troyes," which includes charity work and portraits and candid photos of people, which are largly labeled with names. Names include: Matilde, Agnes, Macfarlane, Mme. Gallois, Canby, Dorothy [Wright], Paul Mauger.

There is a section which includes pictures of "a 100 mi. trip," which included scaling Mont Blanc. This section, too, includes labeled pictures of people. Names include: Weston, Nell Connah, Mary Kelsey, Ted Tawell, and B.I. Macalpine, Therese, Travis, T.E. Harvey, Dr. Earp, Steve, and Dick [Kilby].

Names from other parts of the album include: Chandlee [or Chandler?], Li Hammer, F.E. Bates, Mme. [Edith] Moon, Herbert P. Hol[ure], Thomas H. Philips, J.H.S., W[al]ter, Margaret Louise [Hackecle] (a child: neice?), J. Borlow, R. Clark, Mabel Evans, E. Montford, May Hargrave, [Juna] and Will Eves, Mac Corwell, Bob Taylor, E.G.G., Mrs. Horst, Caroline, Alfred G. Scattergood, L. Ebert, Mary Norton Allen, Edmund Cooper, and Murray Kentworthy, R. Walts.

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This album contains c. 25 photographs, from Panama (La Boca, the Pacific-Entrance-Canal), Costa Rica (Punta Arenes), Nicaragua (San Juan del Sur and Corinto), Honduras (Amapala), [El] Salvador (La Union, Do Libertad and Acajutla), Guatemala (San Jose and Champerico), Mexico (Acapulco, San Blas, Bay Mountain and Mazatlan) and California (Cape St. Lucas).

None of the people pictured are identified.

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This volume was originally titled "India."

A note included with this volume states that there are two albums. It is assumed that both albums were combined to make Volume XI, and while it is possible that the second album is, in fact, Volume XII, that seems less likely.

This volume contains one note, one post card, and c. 450 small photographs. The photos include the Taj Mahal, U.S.S. Seattle, and many unidentified photos, mostly of people.

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