Gibbons, Helen Davenport

In a letter to her mother from Tarsus, dated April 15, 1909, Helen Davenport Gibbons wrote, "They (the Armenians) are terror-stricken, and have reason to be. How would you like to live in a country where you knew your Government not only would not protect you, but would periodically incite your neighbors to rob and kill you with the help of the army?" She made known the facts of the massacres that she herself witnessed in Tarsus and Adana in a book entitled, The Red Rugs of Tarsus, a series of letters in which she chronicled her and her husband's (Herbert Adams Gibbons) first hand experiences....