CLARA BARTON
DIARIES AND JOURNALS
JULY & Sept. 1872; Jan. 1873MISC. D
EXPENSES
[1873]
1872Over, 2 loavesAt Glen Echo
N. B. 
The Battle Hymn
on the following pages
was copied by Clara
Barton in the
British Museum
from Julia Ward
Howe's "Later
Lyrics."
She was in the 
Museum July 19, 
1872.
Signed: Blanche Colton Williams
23 January, 1941Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming
of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his
terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on
I have seen him in the watch fires of
a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the
evening dews & damps
I can read His righteous sentence by
the dim & flaring lamps
His Day is marching onI have read a fiery gospel writ in 
burnished rows of steel
As ye deal with my contemners, so with 
you my grace shall deal
Let the Hero born of woman crush the 
serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on

He has sounded forth the trumpet that 
shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before 
His judgment-seat
Oh be swift my soul to answer Him 
be jubilant my feet
Our God is marching onIn the beauty of the lilies Christ was 
born across the sea
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures 
you and me
As he died to make men holy, let us 
die to make men free
While God is marching on

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5,80

6.Monday morning Sept 2d
Paid for R R fare from Lond
last sat for Antione

1872 Sept 2- Pd R R fare from Londin on Sat for 5
Antoinette & me 1 =8
" Lotties fare and expenses for the 
house up to date 1-6-6Jany. 29th 1873 - 
Mrs Craddock left
I paid her at the house
of Dr Chapman - for 
two months - from Nov 28, 
to Jany 28 / 73
3 £ -10 shillings
I had previously paid
her £ 5 - for the first 
3 months say for Aug
 to November - 
She has been with me
5 months - I have over 
paid her £ 1 - 14 shillings
 in the time - 

Jan . -- 3 £
" 13 -    3"
" 20      5"
"30       1"
Sent Mr. Rhyner -Monday morning Sept 2d
Paid for R R fare from Land
last sat - for [Ant toine?] - 

1872 
Sept 2 Pd RR fare from [Londin?] on sat for 5
Antoinette & me  1=8
" Lollies fare and expenses for the 
house up to date  1-6-6MISS CLARA BARTON'S HEALTH.- The many
friends of Miss Clara Barton will be pained to
hear of her continued illness for the last six or
eight months in London. Following the ardu-
ons labors and self-sacrificing trials she under-
went in the German hospitals, subsequently at
Strasbourg, Metz and Paris during the Franco-
Prussian war and communism, she has been 
subjects to severe attacks of neuralgic affection
and other nervous disorders, which like those
of Florence Nightingale, result from over-taxa-
tion. For several months she was confined to 
her bed, but for the past two months has been 
slowly convalescing, though with occasional
severe relapses. While but little is known here
of the extent of Miss Barton's work in Europe,
it has not been unrecognized there, she having
been presented with crosses of various order of
Prussia and France. [?]