[Rarebooks] FS: Fine 4-page SIGNED Letter from Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross

[Charles Agvent]

BARTON, Clara. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Glen Echo, MD, 4 February 
1906. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 10-5/8" x 
6-3/4" sheet of light blue paper from the 85year-old founder of the 
American Red Cross to her friend and supporter Roscoe [Green Wells], who 
held various positions in the National First Aid Association of America, 
the organization Barton founded after retiring from the Red Cross in 
1904. In part: "I believe I am the earliest and most persistent to shout 
on the danger line -- Too much work for you both -- I see it and have 
foreseen it for months, and then the financial worry is worse.... It is 
not saying but doing that is needed. No one knows that better than I. 
But enough moralizing!!" Barton talks about overcoming troubles and 
looks forward to seeing him again. "The little Greetings have certainly 
been very efficient, so many persons have gotten hold of the idea of 
'First Aid' through them, who would scarcely have gotten it in any other 
way." Faint creases from mailing. Fine with excellent content.

Barton established the American Red Cross in 1881, but she was also a 
suffragist, appearing onstage during suffrage events with Elizabeth Cady 
Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, and Lucy Stone. (#019656)    
     $1,500

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/019656/clara-barton/autograph-letter-signed-als

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