Mrs Sherriff-Bain goes on to pen her disappointment over the reception of the articles she produced in conjunction with the Boston and Berlin meetings, on the subject of ‘militarisation’. Her articles were an endeavour she considered to have been a 'wasted effort.' Mr Sanders from the Lyttleton Times commented that her work was ‘interesting but not popular’ and reneged (along with the Auckland Star) on payment for her work.

Mrs Sherriff-Bain also wrote of the circumstances in Boston and the broader United States, including details of the Juvenile Courts, the rights of African American’s – as championed by Booker Washington, and the influx of refugees from south eastern Europe to Ellis Island. Extract from the text reads : “The contrasts are everywhere as great as the difficulties; so the feeling grows upon one that U.S. will yet emerge from her material prosperity (tremendous in spite of all that discounts it) to a spiritual eminence that shall give her a worthy leadership among the nations.”

Addressed: [From: North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana] [To: Hepburn Street, Ponsonby, Auckland].