places appearing in the edition

Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
The first stop during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, Breckinridge describes it as being "in the heart of a famous British sector." The hotel they spent the night in, Hotel de la Paix, was in fact run by a former British soldier. Breckinridge also comments on the wreckage of the virgin and child statue on the church of Albert, which was destroyed by a shell during the war, and sends her mother postcards of it.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France

Appears in:
To Family, 31 August 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
The capital of Antwerp province. Interestingly, Breckinridge uses the Belgian name for the city rather than the French name, "Anvers," which it is usually her habit to do. Breckinridge mentions this city as the site to which Captain Fryatt's ship the Brussels would be towed.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
During Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, they lunch at Arras on the way to Lille from Albert.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Blérancourt is a commune within the Aisne department in Northern France. This area contains a hospital that will be working with the American Woman's Hospital Association.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Breckinridge mentions that many of the nurses she works with are graduates of the famous Florence Nightingale Training school in Bordeaux.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 13 December 1919

 

Brittany, France
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919

 

West Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium
The capital of West Flanders. During their week-long vacation, Breckinridge, Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson spent an afternoon in Bruges, enjoying the scenery after the destruction at Ypres and Dixmude.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Brussels, Belgium
Breckinridge uses the Belgian spelling of "Brussels" instead of the French "Bruxelles." Another stop on her week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, they find Brussels too modern for their taste but drive through some of it anyway. Here, and on the road between Ghent and Brussels as well, Breckinridge comments that the area is not so destroyed and has recovered well.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Nord, Hauts-de-France, France
One of the last stops during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson: not for sightseeing this time, but for a place to stay on the way back to Vic. Of the hotels they asked about, they found all had been destroyed but the Mouton Blanc, where the manager recognized them as part of the American Committee and assured them rooms despite the crowdedness.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
A city in the French-speaking area of Belgium, and another stop during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. The group traveled here from Namur and greatly disliked it, finding it not only overly modern but also very disreputable with overly expensive hotels in poor condition.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
At least one of Breckinridge's patients works in the fields here for a living. Her friend and patient Gerty Duvauchelle is said to do the washing for "the Valsery farm" as well.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 29 June 1919

 

Oisne, Hauts-de-France, France
According to Breckinridge, "[f]ive men and boys, frail boys of fifteen" arrived in Vic-sur-Aisne from Compeigne a day before her letter of 1 May 1919, looking for work in the town. It is safe to assume that these are German soldier-prisoner-vagrants, because Breckinridge indicates that there already are 600 German prisoners working for Vic-sur-Aisne. Breckinridge and her colleagues "boiled" at the outcome of providing for the incoming men, at the very least to travel back to their point of origin, which further indicates the general German antipathy of postwar France.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 12 April 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

, , France

Appears in:
To Family, 31 August 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

West Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium
Referred to as Diksmuide in Belgium, Breckinridge uses the French pronunciation "Dixmude" instead. During her week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, she makes special note of the road between Ypres and Dixmude and its "utter desolation." It was full of trenches which Breckinridge describes as lacking drainage, and as her group passed through the area on a cold, snowy night, they were able to better appreciate what the British soldiers went through there.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Arkansas, United States
Breckenridge mentions this small US town a few times. She lived here for several years before moving to Paris. While in Eureka Springs, she taught hygiene and French at a women's school where her husband was president.
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Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Breckinridge mentions that she has lunched with a French Baron and his wife (Louis Henri Baron Le Pelletier and Louise Octavie Baudenent Baroness Le Pelletier) who live in and are good to their village near La Ferté-Milon. The couple, Breckinridge indicates, are "extreme socialists" in opposition to the current "reactionary" government of France, i.e., the postwar Bloc National.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
A commune in the Aisne department.  Breckenridge mentions taking Mrs. Daggett from the Delineator here, and describes it as the "tragic ruins of what was once one of the loveliest villages."
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919

 

East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium
Breckinridge refers to this city by its Belgian name rather than the French version of it, "Gand." During her week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, they spent the night in a hotel there but did not otherwise explore the area, seeing it as "a modern industrial city" and not really a place of interest. She does, however, compliment the charm of the roads from Bruges to Ghent and from Ghent to Brussels.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
A city in the French-speaking area of Belgium, and another stop during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. Briefly mentioned as a lunch destination; the passage from Liege to Huy is described as being an industrial area.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Hauts-de-France, Aisne, France
The capital city of the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France.  Breckenridge writes that the American Committee for Devastated France has a unit there.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 12 April 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
This is where the Boulangers, patients of Breckinridge's who are mentioned in multiple letters, reside.
Appears in:
To Family, 31 August 1919

 

Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
A city in the French-speaking area of Belgium, and another stop during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. Despite its also being "a big modern industrial town," they enjoyed visiting some of the older areas of it and went to the movies while they were there.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Nord, Hauts-de-France, France
Capital of the Hauts-de-France region. Breckinridge visits it more than once: first for work, and again later on when she is vacationing with friends.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Flemish Brabant, Flemish Region, Belgium
Breckinridge once again switches to using the French spelling for the name of the region: "Louvain" rather than "Lueven." A side trip from Brussels during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. She describes it as being famous and notes that most of the town is not destroyed even though there are still ruins present.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France
Description for Luzancy.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919

 

A major European river which passes through Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The coordinates available for the river were its source and mouth, neither of which are the section of river to which Breckinridge refers in her letters. She specifically mentions it when she describes Liège's appearance, since the city is located in the Meuse Valley. Therefore, because the relevant part of the river is so specific to Liège, the coordinates given for Meuse in this edition exactly match Liège's.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Grand Est, Meuse, France
A commune in north-eastern France as well as a battle site during the war. Breckenridge mentions a widow whose husband was killed here.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919

 

Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
Breckinridge writes to her mother that her sister Lees and Lees' new husband Warren Dunn, a captain in the Army, have recently departed France after a brief visit in Paris. She indicates that Lees and Dunn hope for the latter to be transferred to "Fortress Monroe" (as it was called at the time) on the coast of Virginia to find more stability and regularity in their lives after the war. A storied, historic, and bustling military base by the time of Breckinridge's writing (especially for its significance during the American Civil War), Fort Monroe was decommissioned and made a national monument in 2011.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919

 

Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
A city in the French-speaking area of Belgium, and another stop during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. This was the last area in Belgium that they visited, immediately after Charleroi, and Breckinridge speaks highly of its scenery and food.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Breckinridge cites Montgobert as an example of the negative effect of German prison labor on the local economies of the French countryside. According to Breckinridge, wages dropped in Montgobert from 22 sous per hour to 16 sous per hour as a result of the cheaper prisoner labor that was offered to businesses and land owners. In addition, Breckinridge laments, the "up front" payment for what we might now call contractors dropped precipitously as a result of the influx of German POW workers.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 29 June 1919
To Family, 31 August 1919

 

Oise, France
A commune in northern France. Breckenridge mentions a particular place, Ferté farm, located here.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919

 

Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
A city in the French-speaking area of Belgium, and another stop during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. They enjoyed Namur and visited a fort there, and bought Quaker oats to bring back to Vic.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

United States of America
Mentioned at various points throughout Breckinridge's letters, New York seems to be a base of operations for the American Committee.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 29 June 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

West Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium
Breckinridge uses the French name for the city, "Ostende," rather than the Belgian "Ostend." Another brief stop on her week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, they spent the night at a hotel here but did not seem to linger in the area very long.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Visiting Paris was not uncommon for Breckinridge during her time in the Aisne. In the letters of this edition, she mentions staying in her sister Lees's apartment house during the early months of 1919 before Lees's husband Warren, a captain in the Army, is sent elsewhere after serving in the postwar occupation of German lands. Moreover, Paris is an important networking hub for Breckinridge as she meets with public figures and people of interest as they pass through the region.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 29 June 1919
To Family, 31 August 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 13 December 1919

 

Oise, Hauts-de-France, France
Breckinridge writes to her mother that "five of us drove" to the Chateau de Pierrefonds. She says the area did not have much damage from the war, but many areas around it did, so refugees went to Pierrefonds.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
At the end of Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson, they lunched here right before arriving back in Vic.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Breckinridge socializes with Louis Henri Baron Le Pelletier and his wife Louise Octavie Baudenent Baroness Le Pelletier, who reside in the village of Silly-la-Poterie near La Ferté-Milon, the latter of which which Breckinridge names in her correspondence. The couple, Breckinridge indicates, are "extreme socialists" in opposition to the current "reactionary" government of France, i.e., the postwar Bloc National.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
A commune in the Aisne department, where the American Committee for Devastated France has a unit. 
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 12 April 1919
To Family, 31 August 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Breckinridge briefly mentions being familiar with the battleground here while drawing comparisons between ruins she has encountered before and the road between Ypres and Dixmude.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Meuse, Grand Est, France
Breckinridge mentions making a visit to Verdun with the Parsons using Mrs. Dike's limousine: a rare instance of her taking time off from work.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919

 

Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
Breckinridge was stationed in Vic-sur-Aisne.
Appears in:
To Katherine Breckinridge, 23 March 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 1 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 18 May 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 29 June 1919
To Family, 31 August 1919
To Lees Breckinridge, 13 October 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919
To Katherine Breckinridge, 13 December 1919

 

West Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium
Another destination point during Breckinridge's week-long vacation with Barney, Lummie, and Kit Carson. Breckinridge is especially struck by the ruins in this area.
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To Katherine Breckinridge, 25 November 1919