On Duty and Off Letters of Elizabeth Cabot Putnam written in France May, 1917 - September, 1918
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1919. Octavo, original blue papered boards with printed label, [x], 222 pp. Boards rubbed and worn at extremities, head of spine chipped, some external spotting and staining. Internally in very good order. These are the home letters of American nurse Elizabeth Putman to her family at Harvard. Miss Putnam departed from the United States to work in Red Cross hospitals in 1917, and the first series of letters describes life at sea under constant threat of U-Boat attack. From early September 1917 through to mid 1918 she served as a secretary to the United States Air Service in Paris, and her letters form a valuable historical description of the day-to-day logistical challenges of America's aerial commitment in the First World War. Item #360
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