Նամակներ Կիլիկիայէն (Օրագրութիւն)
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2020
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After a peaceful year of reconstruction, Hadjin was besieged by the Turks. The orphanage, which was some half a mile outside the limits of the city, maintained neutrality and hoisted the American flag, which prevented the attacking Turks from controlling it.
Isolated in a sea of Turkish forces, the orphanage precariously continued its educational mission and maintained a relationship dictated by circumstances with the Turkish military commanders. Eventually, it was attacked and came under the control of Armenian defenders, who evacuated the orphans and the staff then abandoned it. After reoccupying the orphanage, the Turks pillaged it, burnt it down and sent the six foreign missionaries back to their central office in Constantinople.
During her stay in the orphanage Clark sent letters to her parents. These letters and the diary she kept during her stay in the orphanage constituted the core raw material of her book, Letters from Cilicia, an extremely touching, emotional narrative. It describes in frank terms the life of the orphans and the struggle of the caretakers to pull these poor children out of their misery and give them hope for a better life.
The book is the genuine account of a missionary witnessing the psychological changes of the orphans from hopeless creatures to poor boys and girls who start believing that the desperate years have gone for good and that they will be given the chance to work for a better life. Unfortunately, though, this little light of hope is brutally butchered by the marauding Turks. Indeed, than a dozen of these orphans.
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Քիփ, Ա. Ք., Նամակներ Կիլիկիայէն (Օրագրութիւն), թրգմ., նրծ. եւ ծնթգ.՝ Ա. Տագէսեանի, Հրատ. Հաճնոյ Հայրենակցական Միութեան, Պէյրութ, 2020