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BARTON, CLARA

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BARTON, CLARA
(1821 - 1912) American nurse who tended the wounded in the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross. Good content T.L.S. on American National Red Cross letterhead, 2pp. (one page missing) 4to., Washington, Feb. 2, 1894, to Mrs. M. P. Norcross of Boston concerning personal matters and her extremely busy work schedule in the wake of two cyclones striking the South in the Autumn of 1893 which left over 3000 dead. In part: "...I will not take the time to tell you or rather to describe to you what hapended [sic] [to] them, nor how much they needed help to hold in them the little life that the elements had left, nor the ways in which we have tried to do it, nor the success that has attended our efforts. I will simply say, that since the early part of September, we have had no other thought or work and there has been very little rest, but out of the thirty thousand homeless, foodless houseless and unclothed left to our care alone, we have lost none to hunger [last two words in her hand]; neither shall we lose...". Usual folds, otherwise very good condition.