1919

A continuation of her work as a member of the Anglo-American Friends Mission/American Red Cross participants of the AFSC, her letters to her parents are dated from Romilly and other locations in France, later Grange, Paris, Dombasle, Ardennes, Vienna, Germany, etc.

Several references to the effects of war, personnel, sightseeing, beginning of Reconstruction work and a sense of the writer's personality and convictions, as well as her take on other relief workers.

Also, a guest book of the AFSC unit, Romilly-sur-Seine, 1918 kept by Dorothy North and Hurley.

Also "Notes on survey made in autumn 1919 by Vincent Nicholson and Beulah Hurley before going home in Dec.: Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechosovakia" and a diary, March 1918-April 1919.

And the First report on 1919 survey into Central Europe to take back to Philadelphia

Highlights include:

1919 1/19. Description of how the group lives

1919 2/16. Fed and housed over eighty the previous evening

1919 3/2. "The Germans of that sector are much delighted to have our men there rather than the other Allies who have a heavier score to settle..." Encloses bread coupons; situation in Russia; re Dorothy North, delegate of the Women's Peace Party to the Hague Conference and a member of the Mission earlier

1919 5/11. Musings on some provisions of the peace and how they affect Germany

1919 2/19. The answer to war is to find a big constructive piece of work, as big as the destructive one of war

Thomas, L.R. Paris to Beulah Hurley. 1919 3/10. Offering her the position of heading the equipment division

1919 4/6. Reflects on her new job

1919 8/18. Battle over vegetables in the marketplace due to their high price

1919 9/12. Reflections on politics and the use of German prison labor due to a shortage in their own personnel

1919 9/15. Escape of prisoners from 3 camps near Varenne; continuation of some political insight

1919 9/28. Describes the room where she is living

1919 10/5. Has been recommended to work for AFSC in Vienna

1919 10/30. Main weight of work should be to provide emergency relief work in Central Europe; list of all relief the agencies and their responsibilities, and the idea that there should be a pooling of all of them to increase efficiency; detailed description of what she saw while traveling and a great deal of additional commentary

1919 11/11. Comments on specific aspects of providing relief, e.g. coal, food, milk, clothing, medical supplies