Scrapbook of copies of letters written home from Paris, 1918 February 2 - November 21 [manuscript], 1933.

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Scrapbook of copies of letters written home from Paris, 1918 February 2 - November 21 [manuscript], 1933.

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Mrs. Marshall describes her voyage over on the S.S. Chicago, her life in Paris, her friends and fellow Y. workers. Of interest are her descriptions of the German bombardments of Paris, March-July 1918, including the Good Friday bombing of St. Gervais, work with refugees and wounded soldiers, a holiday in Amboise, a trip to the front including Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Woods, celebrations on July 4th, and the Armistice. The collection also contains her original discharge papers, letters of recommendation, photographs including Woodrow Wilson in Paris, and clippings as well as the Armistice issue of the "Paris-midi" 11 November 1918. With these are extracts of a 1943 letter of James Collier Marshall concerning Petain, Laval, Peyrouton, de Gaulle, Darlan and Leahy.

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University of Virginia. Library

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