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Reading edition
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
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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
I. From Esther
II. From Esther
III. From Esther
IV. From Marjorie
V. From Esther
VI. From Marjorie
VII. From Esther
VIII. From Marjorie
IX. From Marjorie
X. From Esther
XI. From Esther
XII. From Marjorie
XIII. From Marjorie
XIV. From Esther
XV. From Marjorie
XVI. From Marjorie
XVII. From Esther
XVIII. From Marjorie
XIX. From Esther
XX. From Marjorie
XXI. From Esther
XXII. From Marjorie
XXIII. From Esther
XXIV. From Esther
XXV. From Esther
XXVI. From Marjorie
XXVII. From Marjorie
XXVIII. From Marjorie
XXIX. From Marjorie
XXX. From Esther
ILLUSTRATIONS
Marjorie Crocker and Esther Sayles Root
No. 6 Place Denfert-Rochereau
Women’s Vestiaire and Men’s Vestiaire
Dr. and Mrs. Shurtleff in the Office
Marjorie and Mrs. Shurtleff, with the Leopard Skin
Esther and Marjorie in Ford Truck
Rootie in Park at Saint-Germain
Marje in the Salon at No. 12 Place Denfert-Rochereau
“Bettina” at Saint-Germain
Le Cèdre at Saint-Germain
Will Irwin in the Garden at Blérancourt
Mrs. Williams, Miss Dobson, and Mrs. Wethey in the Garden at Blérancourt
Luncheon in the Garden at Blérancourt
The Cathedral at Soissons
Very Old and Beautiful House at Roye⑥ Interior completely gone
A German Graveyard
The Air Raid on Paris on the Night of January 30, 1918