Dorothy Horrax Sutton Papers

The collection contains letters from Dorothy Sutton, a member of the Near East Relief, who wrote to her family in the United States from Constantinople, South Russia, and Greece. She described what she and the Near East Relief were doing for refugees and orphans (1920-1926). Dorothy Horrax Sutton was born in Montclair, New Jersey (1878). She was trained as a kindergarten teacher. In 1918, she went to France where she directed various relief works. In the fall of 1919, Sutton returned to America but a year later she went back to Europe to serve as a volunteer for Near East Relief.