| Description | In this letter George Newman comments on material which Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury had submitted to be included in the 'Friends' Quarterly Examiner'. Describing her work as 'excellent', Newman asks why other Quakers could not 'dry up & get to work!'. He suggests that amidst all the practical work to be done, Friends were preoccupied with discussing and debating their views 'airing themselves like cockatoos'. Newman comments on the 'impertinent letters' which he received as editor of the journal, suggesting that he was 'ashamed' that more Friends were not engaged in practical work. Newman provides a brief account of the work of those involved with the Friends' Ambulance Unit who were going to Dunkirk. He writes 'I have bid them forget all their Quaker airs & just help, help, help any poor devil they can.' Commenting on those fighting in the First World War, Newman writes that he prayed daily for the men who he saw as 'tied to a system to a task so devilish'. He concludes with thoughts about the 'poor boys in the trenches'. |