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The weekly bulletin Near East Relief continued The Acorne under a new title from 23 October 1920. Printed in Constantinople for private circulation through 1922, it carried field reports, personnel news, operational notices, and correspondence from Near East Relief stations. (Columbia University Library)

Printed weekly in Constantinople for private circulation, The Acorne linked Near East Relief’s scattered field staff. Its reports covered station work, personnel, supplies, transport, disease, and refugee and orphan care. This collection holds seventeen surviving issues from 1920. (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University Libraries; University of Chicago Library; Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen College)

Nellie Miller Mann served as secretary to the NER Treasurer in Beirut, 1921–1923. This collection includes correspondence, reports, and personal records from her service during NER's postwar expansion in Lebanon and Syria. (Rockefeller Archive Center)