I am very sorry that before leaving I was unable to express my heartfelt thanks for your endeavours and your interest. On the day I left I called on you at your home and at the Embassy, but unfortunately I did not catch you in. I am now taking advantage of the first safe opportunity to send you a few lines of thanks and some information on my impressions of the journey. I arrived here yesterday and until now I have had no difficulty in travelling.
I found nothing to confirm the clashes between the refugees and the population of Caesarea and Sivas. Otherwise, the situation is hopeless, particularly as far as the Armenian population is concerned. In Eregli I met the last Armenians who had not converted to Islam. From there to here things have been cleared up radically: either they have been deported or induced to convert to Islam or massacred. Not a single Armenian sound is to be heard anywhere. Thousands were killed in Gemerek. In the area surrounding Yozgad, the population from 6 Armenian villages was massacred, all of them, even the infants. I met several thousand Armenian road workers (ameli tabúr) on the road, most of whom had also converted to Islam and were still being forced to accept Islam. There is a risk that when these people have finished their work they will be killed for some reason, as was supposedly done in the Erzindjan area. Can their lives not be protected? Can nothing at all be done for the remainder of this people?
There were 500 men in a village near Sivas with which I have good relations; 30 of them are still alive. A family of 18 lost 14 of its members through sickness and murder. Out of other large families one or 2 members are still alive. These are not isolated cases, but rather the rule. The number of those killed can be inferred from this. There is great misery in Malatia, as many children and women of those deported remained there. However, these figures have been greatly decimated by epidemics and hunger. I am afraid of the task that awaits me there. Nor are the Protestants spared. May the Lord God soon show mercy.
I remain very respectfully and gratefully yours,
Please excuse my poor handwriting. I have no table to work on and am writing on my knees.