World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources

Abstract

The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.

Content Description The main item in this collection is an oversized personal journal and scrapbook maintained from 1907-1915 by William S. Patten, an officer in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Many pages include dated journal or diary-type entries describing activties of the day often supplemented with images or ephemera. This note highlights some of the significant content in the scrapbook, but it is not a comprehensive inventory of subjects covered.Although there are some photographs of his...