Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch

was the main asset in this splendid venture. S

onsciously prepared and ready for the testin

year in the August that war broke out. She started on her great w

uoted, we can describe her

adventure in her veins as she stood at the helm and gazed across the dancing waters.... Joy had done its work, and s

waited for death to open the gate to it, but to her it seemed that she was in the midst of it now, that 'adventure brave and new' in which death itself was

s sent broadcast over Scotland; money began to flow in; the scheme was taken up by the whole body of the N.U.W.S.S.[12] Mrs. Fawcett wrote approvingly. The Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee at their headquarters in Edinburgh divided up into subcommittees: equipment, uniforms, cars, personnel, and so on. Offers for service came in every day, until soon over 400 names were waiting the choice of the personnel committee. The headquarters offices in 2, St. Andrew Square became a busy hi

e field. As early as September, 1914, Dr. Flora Murray and Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderso

ls. She addressed countless meetings all over the Kingdom, making the scheme known and appealing for money, and at the same time her insight and enthusiasm never ceased to be the

tic visit of the Chief had been paid. Had the impossible been accomplished? If not, why? Who had failed in performance

applied was ever, 'it is war-time.' No one must pause, no one must waver; things must simply be done, whether possible or not, and somehow by her inspiration they generally were done. In these days of agonizing stress she appeared as in herself the very embodiment of wireless telegraphy, aeronautic locomotion, with telepathy and

Fawcett dated Octobe

st now; and when one hears of the awful need,

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