"I hope it ends soon"
An annotated account of Lewis B. Merrill's evacuation from France, September 1914
The journal of Lewis Merrill of Salt Lake City, Utah, is a portal to another world. The nearly daily accounts place readers at a hinge point of European history. In the summer of 1914, he was living and serving in Lyon, France, as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.1 Merrill regularly wrote journal entries about what he expe…
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