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CLARA BARTON

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CLARA BARTON
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>CLARA BARTON </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>ALS, 3½pp, 9”X7”, Glen Echo [MD], Feb 24, 1909. To “<i>My dear, dearest Secretary</i>.” Barton writes of her unsuccessful attempts to obtain a copy of her out -of-print book, <i>The Red Cross in Peace and War</i>, fearing a pirated edition may have been published. Barton, eighty-eight at this writing, may have been recovering from an illness, stating “...<i>you may remove the greater burden of your fears for me. Although I am not yet up to ‘sixteen hours a day’ I can meet the ordinary desires of my friends.</i>..” She concludes with comments regarding the “<i>Buffalo demonstration</i>,” stating “<i>Those home exhibitions are far more interesting & Lasting in their effects than a real theatrical.</i>..” Fine.</span></p>