1911-1919
Guide to the Collection
Abstract
这本文集包括埃莉诺的论文 "Nora" Saltonstall, kept mostly while serving with the American Red Cross in France during World War I.
Biographical Sketch
埃莉诺·“诺拉”·索尔顿斯托出生在马萨诸塞州的栗子山., 19 Oct. 1894, the second of four children of Eleanor (Brooks) and Richard Middlecott Saltonstall. 她的兄弟姐妹是莱弗里特，生于1892年，穆里尔·戈登(后来) 刘易斯(Lewis)， 1896年生，理查德(Richard)， 1897年生. She attended Miss Winsor's school, graduating in 1911, and continued her education at Miss Ferris' School in Paris in the fall and winter of 1911-1912. 诺拉被选为缝纫的秘书 圈出她“出柜”的年份，以及担任少年联盟主席的年龄 22.
When World War I began, she organized the Active Corps of the Special Aid 1917年6月，他获得了急救证书. In Oct. 1917 she went overseas to work in Paris with the Bureau of Refugees and Relief, 美国红十字会的一个部门，为难民提供住宿. In 11月，她转到巴黎的一家美国红十字会药房. A desire to see more action and to be of more use to the war effort impelled her to seek 新年过后，把工作转移到Mrs. Charles Daly's Auto-Chir No. 7是美国红十字会的一个医院单位 attached to the French army. The Auto-Chir was a mobile hospital which followed the troops, serving as the primary medical unit after the first aid station. Nora served as Mrs. Daly's assistant, as the unit's secretary and housekeeper in charge of supplies and accounts, and later as the chauffeur, while the Auto-Chir served along the western front in France, east/northeast of Paris, the site of the German offensives in Mar. and Apr. 1918.
At the end of the war Nora spent some time traveling in the south of France, returning home in March of 1919. 然后她和朋友们出发去了 west coast of the U.S. 她在俄勒冈州波特兰得了伤寒，然后 died on Aug. 2, 1919, at the age of 24.
为了纪念她，温莎学校建立了诺拉·索尔顿斯托尔纪念馆 Scholarship. 给一个刚毕业的学生在法国学习八个月的机会， the scholarship continues today.
Collection Description
The collection consists of letters, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, most 在1917-1919年诺拉在法国服役期间产生的. There are three large 诺拉从欧洲写信回家的合订本. 1917 to March 1919, and from the western U.S. in June and July 1919. There are two sets of typed transcriptions of Nora's letters, one by Marjorie Gutheim of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and one (identified here as "alternate") by an unknown transcriber. 有两本日记是诺拉写的，写于1911-1915年 1919年7月16日至15日，附复印件一份. Finally, there is one narrow box of miscellaneous loose papers, documents, and ephemera, mostly pertaining to her work in France, and one volume, The Bride's Gift Book, that belonged to Muriel Gurdon (Saltonstall) Lewis, listing wedding gifts, 25 Sep. 1926.
Four passport photographs (copies) of Nora Saltonstall were removed from the 收藏，并编目为照片集9.2. Also removed and catalogued 另外还有一些博物馆藏品(详情见附录).
Other Formats
该文集中的大部分信件出版于 "Out here “在前线”:诺拉·索尔顿斯托尔的一战书信, edited by Judith S. 格雷厄姆，波士顿:东北出版社，2004年.
Acquisition Information
The three volumes of letters were previously deposited at the MHS as part of the Saltonstall Family Papers. 托收的余款由 Eleanor (Lewis) Campbell in 1999; the collection was a gift of Eleanor (Lewis) Campbell, September 2000.
收集的详细描述
I. Letters, 1911-1919
The collection consists mainly of letters written home by Nora Saltonstall 给来自法国的家人和朋友. 1917 to Mar. 1919, describing her activities and work with the Red Cross in Paris and on the western front of France with Mrs. Daly's Auto-Chir No. 7. There are also letters written home from the western United States, June-July 1919; and letters (transcripts only, Box 1) written 1911-1912 from Paris and other parts of Europe. 原始信件已按时间顺序整理和存放 in three bound volumes with some additional material appended to Volume III. 这些资料包括:诺拉写给家人的摄影明信片 members, envelopes, newspaper clippings, letters written about Nora while she was in France, a few letters written to Nora by acquaintances in France, and two letters written in 1914 to Nora and her sister Muriel concerning family 银色的，可能是他们的祖母莎拉·L. Brooks.
在第1栏中有两套打字的信件抄本 and 2. 第一套是由马萨诸塞州的马乔里·古瑟姆编写的 Historical Society, and includes all letters 1917-1919, transcriptions of all appended material from Volume III, as well as transcriptions of letters written by Nora Saltonstall during a sojourn abroad at Miss Ferris's School in Paris, and traveling around Europe, Sep. 1911年至1912年7月(其原件为 not in this collection). 第二组转录本(这里标识为 "alternate"), was done by an unknown transcriber, and includes letters Oct. 1917-Mar. 1919年6月至7月，她在露营旅行中写的信 附录)，以及其他一些附加材料:a Chicago Daily News clipping, a letter from Alexander Lambert to Mrs. R. M. 索尔顿斯托尔(1918年6月4日)和NS的讣告(1918年8月4日). 1919).
II. Diaries, 1911-1919
There are two small, five-year diaries (a brief paragraph per day) in the collection. 从1911年到1915年，诺拉每天都写日记. This diary includes her time spent at Miss Ferris's School in Paris and traveling around Europe, 1911-1912. The second diary begins 1 Jan. 1916 and includes her time in France during the war and afterwards on her camping trip to the western United States. 最后一个记录是1919年7月15日，也是她最后一封信的日期 wrote home. There is a photocopy of each diary.
III. Miscellaneous Papers, 1917-1919
This series, arranged chronologically, relates primarily to Nora's time in France, and includes such items as passports, permits, safe-conducts, identity cards, instructions, a citation from Maréchal Petain, acknowledgment from the 红十字会，支票簿，还有蜉蝣. There is also a volume, The Bride's Gift Book, that belonged to Nora's sister Muriel Gurdon (Saltonstall) Lewis, and is a record of her wedding gifts, 25 Sep. 1926.
Includes: Carte d'identité, list of French authors and books, mimeographed poem "Pourquoi Pleurer" and ms. note.
包括:出生证明，护照，轮船说明，卡片
d' identity申请，" Programme de soir
Includes: Carnet D'Étranger, Livret de Dame Infirmière Militaire, Red-Cross identification card, French driver's permit for NS, citation from Maréchal Petain, receipt from Dr. Hally-Smith.
包括:运输单，服装店装箱单，护照，旅行单 许可证，红十字会感谢信，自由 & Co. receipt, postcard from NS to Muriel Saltonstall, obituary of NS, list of Nora Saltonstall Fund subscribers.
Preferred Citation
埃莉诺·索尔顿斯托尔的论文，马萨诸塞州历史学会.
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Museum Objects Removed from the Collection
Stained and inlaid wooden box that contained relics of Nora Saltonstall's WWI experiences: wooden box with hinged lid, stained blue with inlaid ribbon in 天然桦树沿前面，盖子，和背面. MHS Artifact # 1288.
Three brass buttons from the Red Cross uniform worn by NS in France: brass dome buttons with round brass shanks set into slightly domed backs; raised design of cross on fronts. MHS Artifact # 1289.01-03
纳粹在法国穿的红十字会制服的领徽:黄铜 initials "U.S." with straight pin/hook clasp. MHS Artifact # 1290.
Red cross uniform insignia worn by NS in France: brass cross with red enamel inlay and straight pin/hook clasp. MHS Artifact # 1291.
NS在法国佩戴的刻字身份手镯:金链 手镯与略凸椭圆形板和弹簧滑扣. MHS Artifact # 1292.
Pair of US 30 caliber hollow core bullets, relics of Nora Saltonstall's WWI experience: brass hollow core bullets with sharply pointed heads, lead cores melted out; bullets crudely soldered together with lead. MHS Artifact # 1293.01-02.
Silver case and pencil owned by NS: sterling silver flattened oval tube with 分离的压力安装帽在一端和悬挂垂在另一端; engraved initials N.S.; tube contains pencil of the same shape, marked JOHANN FABER. MHS Artifact # 1294.
NS皮革单肩包，可能在法国使用; single compartment with envelope type flap and chrome lock and clasp; single narrow leather strap attached to back of bag by brass spring cleats hooked to metal D rings in leather tabs. MHS Artifact # 1295.
一绺头发，大概是NS的:用缎带系着，剪得干干净净 across; wrapped in brown paper wrapper. MHS Artifact # 1296.
Two pieces of stained glass "from Notre Dame," presumably collected by NS while in France: irregularly shaped; larger of red class with opaque backing; 较小的带有蚀刻的红色玻璃，露出红色的鸢尾花. In an envelope with note in ms. of Muriel G. 索尔顿斯托尔·刘易斯《巴黎圣母院的玻璃." MHS Artifact # 1297.01-02.
Croix-de-Guerre awarded to Eleanor Saltonstall, 1918 Bronze with ribbon of 6 宽绿色条纹和7条窄深红色条纹，1颗青铜星形，37 x 99 mm.