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Scope and Contents Correspondence from C. Canby Balderston to his mother while he was in France as a relief worker during World War I, dated September-October 1917. Describes the voyage to France and the experience of traveling under wartime conditions. Discusses the other passengers, including fellow relief workers and American author Winston Churchill. Upon arrival in France, discusses his sightseeing activities, Red Cross service preparatory training, and Red Cross operations. Describes his first relief...

Scope and Contents Correspondence from C. Canby Balderston to his mother while he was in France as a war relief worker. Letters dated 1918-06-23 — 1918-12-28. Describes the work and living conditions at his relief unit. Shares news of others including fellow relief workers and their activities. Discusses his work primarily responding to local needs for agricultural assistance, with a focus on agricultural machine repair, maintenance, distribution, and on-site farm labor involving threshers and binders. From...

Scope and Contents Primarily correspondence from C. Canby Balderston to his mother Anna Elizabeth Marshall Balderston (1856-1925) while he was in Europe as a relief worker. Letters dated 1919-01-19 — 1919-07-11. Also includes Balderston's Red Cross Secretarial appointment certificate (dated 1919-04-07). Discusses Red Cross war reconstruction operations in Belgium, with Balderston primarily stationed in Bruges. Details working in warehouse and office administration, his personal responsibilities chiefly...

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2 ALsS from C. Canby's mother

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Long letter expressing her appreciation for Lindbergh's book North to the Orient. She explains that she has been bedridden for most of the previous ten years and travels through books.

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2 ALsS

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Robert, brother of C. Canby, died in an accident on Feb. 12, 1940. He had spent a year in Germany in the Child Feeding Program after WWI and worked for the National Milk Association in Chicago at the time of his death. In 1939, he visited Europe and reported business conditions. The 1941 letter is a carbon copy to his widow, Martha, concerning salary owed to him.