[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Clara Barton Letter on Red Cross matters

[Charles Agvent]

BARTON, Clara. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Glen Echo [MD], 5 May 
1906. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two adjoining sheets 
(5-1/4" x 6-1/2") dated 5 May 1906 from the founder of the American Red 
Cross and SIGNED by her. To Miss Kensel [Mary Kensel Wells, Barton's 
secretary] regarding various matters of the Red Cross. In part: "Like 
yourself, I am to [sic] hurried to make a visible sign of life.... Mrs. 
G is a Smith College girl--her husband a Harvard. They have taken up 
their work with all the earnestness of 'Settlement' girls--have various 
branches and affiliations--one of which has been First-Aid.... They have 
done earnest work.... They seem delighted with your work, especially the 
textbook and the little book.... Mrs. Gitterman--she says 'Please tell 
the Boston officers that I am a Smith College girl and that isn't far 
from them.' I think they will open the Washington door.... I am so 
anxious to see that Report I can hear the true ring of it already." 
Slight paper loss to one upper corner and staple holes to the other. 
Fine with good content. (#016770)        $1,350.00

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