February Letters, 2 February 1922-27 February 1922

This file contains letters sent from Danelovka, and Alexievka. In these letters Rackstraw writes that she has a new translator, who becomes ill during their travels. They also visit a priest, whose home has been a welcome place to them many a time, and whose wife and children have been a source of happiness, to find that his wife has died of illness 8 days previously, and a child is ill. She also writes about other visits that they make, and the observations she has of children's centers, and other facilities, usually rating their cleanliness. Her final letter mentions that she has not received any letters for weeks and feels very far away from everyone back home, though busy attending the Spectacle, which she gives in great detail and attending a concert. "It seems a queer mixup having dancing and plays and wedding sin this kind of a life so hard and tragic and wretched."