CLARA BARTON GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Dwight, Edward Aug. 1867 - July 1880[*12*] [*76!*] Dansville. Aug. 21. 1867. Dear Mr Dwight I have a prize for you, or rather for your hospitals. if you have, or are likely to have, the least necessity for it, which will be invaluable. This Institution has a "Medical Matron" Mrs. Mary E. Weeks who is the most perfectly adapted to the filling of Any place that could be desired along ........ Institution below the ............................................................ with ........................................................... a Medical education. quietly by herself. is a patient of this Institute. come up out of Nervous prostration, knows it all, and is the Most efficient woman about the building - a refined, educated lady, lovely and dignified in her manner religious & conscientious in character And as unpretending, and faithful as [Missnick?], She has a little son of 10 years old with her, bright and useful. Mrs Weeks will leave here of her own option on the 1st of Oct. and is not engaged. She is about 35. has never been in any Institution but this, and so has not on any robes of dignity, or high prices. I could secure her for you if you have need of such a person; in any of your hospitals (Another such a nurse I do not know) if I could know it before she leaves. ............................................................ to ............................................................ her, ................................. that I should drop a line to you and refer you to her for particulars if you desired them, I am sure that Mrs Weeks would prize a situation in any of your hospitals, and I should be delighted to place her under your good guide and care, She is a lady whom I prize most highly - Hoping to hear that I may send you yet one more faithful worker for your noble fields. [*?*] I am as ever Your sincere & grateful friend Clara Barton. Edmund Dwight Esq Boston. - I hope this finds you well - I have had a good summer for me -60 State Street, Boston, Dec 13" 1875 Dear Miss Barton. A paragraph in Harper's Weekly says that you are at New England Village, & I write to ascertain if that is the case, & to beg you to let me know of your welfare & how the world has treated you the last four years. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton.Edmund Dwight Esq Dec. 13. 1875 Ansd " 17 - " Dec 26" 1875. Dear Miss Barton. It was a very great pleasure to receive your note of 17: and to know that you are alive if not well - . Let me wish you a happy new year, & that in it you may regain your health & strength. I sent your note to Mr Jackson who was very glad to hear from you, & very sorry to hear of your sufferings. It seems a heavy penalty to pay for your self sacrifice & [selfless?] services.My life has been of even tenor since I saw you in Paris. I was not quite well then, suffered rather severely during the voyage & for six months after. Since then I have been well. I live in Winchester, eight miles from Boston, by the shore of a lake. I spin cotton by day, & spend a quiet evening by my own fireside. I am neither rich nor poor, nor remarkable in any way. What I undertake I try to do well, I have fair success, & when I can do a kind turn to another without the slightest trouble to myself I am too selfish to refuse. You have had a terrible time for five years past, but I hope you may yet have a time of health & rest & enjoyment. It will give me very great pleasure to visit you whenever you will allow me. My engagements are not very numerous. I mean those that cannot be postponed, & if you write give me a choice of a day or two I shall be almost sure to come at your bidding. I should much enjoy talking over your adventures. Address now at 60 State Stand believe me, dear Miss Barton Most Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton. Edmund Dwight Dec. 26. 1875 Ans. Jan. 6 - 76 - 60 STATE STREET, BOSTON, April 25 1876 Dear Miss Barton. I have your note of 24th & shall have much pleasure in visiting you on Friday 28. I will take the train from Boston at 11 reaching Grafton at 12.42. Will you kindly send a waggon from your village to take me up & back again to the 4.43 train? Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton[*reply*] New England Village April 27 76 Dear Mr Dwight Thanks for your kind note, and shall await your visit with much pleasure. One Mr Nourre "runs" a single carryall regularly to the trains which stop at this village I will tell him today of your coming and he will find and bring you Very sincerely yours Clara Barton I pray you excuse the color of my ink, unlike the writer, it improves with age - Edmund Dwight Esq April 25, 1876 60 State Street, Boston, April 29" 1876 Dear Miss Barton. The more I think of your friend the more desirous I am that she should apply for the place of matron at the McLean Asylum. But it would be a great loss to you. & the proposal must be made to her by you. If you decide to do so, I would ask her to go to the Asylum with me to see the place, & the Doctor in charge. There are, of course, several applicants, & I can only say that her chance of the appointment is quite as good as any one has.If she should come down to Boston it would be at our expense, & you would notify me a day or two in advance. It would be a sorry return for all you have done, to take from you so in-valuable a friend, but you must Judge what is best. I enjoyed very much my visit to you. Did the wax peddler make any report in the village as to the object of my visit? Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Edmund Dwight April 29. 1876 Ansd 29 - 60 State Street, Boston, May 2" 1876 Dear Miss Barton Thanks for your own note of 1" Will Miss Küpfer take the 10. o'clock train from Worcester? Returning by the 4.30 from Boston she would have time enough. I will meet her at the Boston station at 12. I suggest the later train as more convenient in visiting the Asylum. Miss Küpfer may prefer the early train, in which case I would ask her to call at my office at 12. Thursday. Please send me a line to say which plan suits her best. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton. New England Village May 2 1876 Dear Mr Dwight Thanks for your note just in hand. Miss Kupfer will be better pleased to take the 10 a.m. train knowing that it will answer as well. She is strange in Boston and would greatly prefer you would meet her at the train. She had no preference for the early train.Edmund Dwight May. 2. 1876 Ansd May 2 - 60 State Street, Boston, May 16" 1876 Dear Miss Barton. I wrote Miss Küpfer, enclosed for your care, last week with a note from Dr Jelly of the McLean Asylum offering her the place of matron. I hope the notes were received, & that Miss Küpfer will accept the nomination. Will you ask her to write me an answer to be received not later than the morning of the 19" Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Edmund Dwight Esq Boston May 16. 1876 Exhibit - 9 Copy of letter of Edmund Dwight Esq Americain, the acceptance of My Report by the Committee of the Boston French Relief Fund, and informing me of the disposition made by them of the Monies I returned to them through him in the month of May: 1876 60 State street Boston July 1st 1876 Dear Miss Barton You will wonder at my long silence, but owing to the absence of gentlemen of the committee under whom I act, I have only been able to obtain their signatures to day. The money in the hands of Messrs Brown Bros. & co, including interest on Bonds to May 1st is $4521.00. of which one quarter (or $1130) belongs to Mr. Jackson's fund. He will write to you about this. The remainder, $3390 belongs to my fund. Of this, I am directed to pay $150, to distressed families from Alsace. nowin Boston. The balance (or $3240) to pay to the Massachusetts General Hospital in trust, to pay all income arising from this money to you, during your life, - Afterwards to become the property of the Hospital, In making this arrangement the Committee desire to express their high appreciation of your intelligence and self- sacrifice in distributing the funds placed in your hands, and their great sympathy with you, in your long and painful illness caused partly by the work which you did in their behalf. They recognize the great accuracy of your accounts, The large number of vouchers collected by much labor, and the scrupulous care with which you have guarded the money entrusted to you, They wish you good health, and a long life. I need not tell you, dear Miss Barton, how cordially I join in all good wishes for your health, and happiness. May the Hospital pay your annuity till the next Centennial, Sincerely yours Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton. ------------------------- Copy of reply - Our Home on the Hillside Dansville Livingston co NY July. 5. 1876 Dear Mr Dwight Your communication of July 1st apprising me of the action of your Committee in relation to the Monies returned to them reached me on Monday, and you will not fail to understand me when I tell you it has left me utterly destitute of words for you all. Your disposition of the money is nothing less to me than the returning of that portion of the entire sum back into my possession. Almost the last of my family with no dependencies I have neither [..?] nor desire for money beyond my life and it will be a relief that I have not the capital to dispose of at the last. Thus you see how perfect an arrangement it is for me, but the wonder is, why it has been made!. Acceptable asit is, I had neither right nor claim to it. But I have no words, and will not try to make them. Will you, dear Mr Dwight see, and say to the members of your committee what you think I ought to say if I could, this will be one more favor added to the many you have already done me, and for which my whole heart will thank you You were mistaken in supposing your silence had been a matter of wonder to me, it had not even occurred to me that you had any thing to say unless some error should be found in my accounts, which under the circumstances I thought very possible. And as for the future, while I shall never wonder at your silence I shall be always exceptionally glad when you choose to break it. With the highest esteem alike for yourself and your honored committee I remain forever of both the humble and grateful debtor and friend Clara Barton Edmund Dwight Esq 60 State St., Boston, July 22nd, 1876. Dear Miss Barton: I enclose a copy of a vote of the Trustees of the Mass. Gen. Hospital, attested by the Secretary, which is legal proof of your right to the annuity. I have suggested to Judge Hale the convenience of your appointing Brown Brothers your attorneys to collect the half yearly payments. Miss Kupfer tells me you are gaining in strength. She is settling into her position and is highly valued by the officers of the Asylum. One advantage of having here there is (for me) that I can hear occasionally of you. Sincerely yours, (Signed) Edmund Dwight.Boston July 22nd, 1876. Dear Sir: At the meeting of the Trustees of the Mass. General Hospital, held on the 14th instant, the Committees of the Trust Relief Fund of 1871, acting by yourself, presented an unexpended balance of that Fund namely, thirty-one hundred dollars in United State six percent gold bonds and one-hundred and forty-one dollars in currency--to be held by the Mass. General Hospital in trust, during the life of Miss Clara Barton, lately of New England village, Worcester Co., Mass., to pay to her semi annually all income arising from the above property, during her life, and at and after her death to its own use as the property of the Mass. General Hospital, for its general purposes. VOTED: "That the amount of three-thousand and two-hundred and fifty-one dollars from the French Relief fund, be accepted on the terms stated, and that the Treasurer be requested to communicate to the Committee on the Trust Relief Fund, the grateful acknowledgement of this Board therefor. Attest. (Signed) Thomas B. Hall Secretary, Mass. General Hospital. To Edmund Dwight Esq. [*15*] "Our Home on the Hillside" Dansville. Livingston co NY July 26. 1876. Dear Mr. Dwight Your kind letter of the 22d inst. enclosing a copy of the vote of the Trustees of the Mass. Genl Hospital in acknowledgment of the bequest made them by the Committee of the French Relief Fund to be generously held in trust for me, reached last evening, copies of which according to my custom I have retained forwarding the originals to my atty Judge Hale. And I hasten to thank you, and through you, all connected with that kindly matter from first to last, once more, and so I am to go on thanking to the end. Please act once more as my distributor, knowing always that in my heart is much more than ever escapes my lips or pen. - The especial financial arrangements I leave entirely with Judge Hale and yourself -fully confident that in such hands, there is on my part no call for either action or solicitude. Although comparatively poor in most of The generally considered blessings of life, and beggared in strength, I am certainly, still rich in friends. I am rejoiced at your words of good import for dear Miss Kupfer, and I cannot but feel that the Asylum will yet find her what I sent her to be to it, a help, a strength, and a friend. She always writes me when she has seen you, and thus you perceive that I desire the same advantage from her being there that you do, Miss K. is correct in her report of me I am gaining in strength, am out of doors a great deal, and walk quite reasonable little distances, many times a day without weariness, - I am strictly forbidden to get weary in any application of the word, if it even only looking out of my window. I must stop before I am tired, and so they mean to give me back my strength by reversing the process by which I lost it, I have no medicine, and almost no treatment, but carefree advice, well arranged food generous sympathy. - and the quiet and peace of Heaven rests over every thing here. It is a "Home" that I am glad and grateful to have found - Most truly and Sincerely Yours, Clara Barton Edmund Dwight Esq -60 State Street, Boston, Sep 8" 1876 Dear Miss Barton. Your note of 21" Inst reached me at Mt Desert, where I was rusticating. Since my return I have seen your note [for?] Miss Kupfer. I do not at present know a position suited to Mrs Weeks, but there are one or two possibilities in view which may develop. At the Hospital in Boston some changes will take place next month which may, bychance, lead to something which would interest Mrs W. But this is quite uncertain, & all I can say is that I shall be glad to have the power of writing to Mrs Weeks after she has left Dansville. I have a bundle of vouchers which you said you would like to be returned to you. Will you let me know which it is, & where I shall send it? I am very glad to hear of your better health. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton.Edmund Dwight Esq Sept 8. 76 Ansd Oct. 23 " 60 State Street, Boston, Nov 2" 1876 Dear Miss Barton, I was very glad to receive your note of 25". & to hear that your health is better. So you have a hand of your own at Dansville. I wish it was not so far off, for I should like to drop in upon you & lunch. I am glad that Miss K is happy in her work. Sometimes I fear that the necessity of spending $500 weighs upon her. But I never knew a woman who could not overcome a grief of that sort, never gain a task for it. I handed her the bundle of vouchers the next day. Have you ever given any one a power of attorney to collect your semi annual dividend from the Hospital? I suggested to Judge Hale that Brown Bros & co of Boston might do so. If it is once started right it will [sum?] without further attention. Wishing you a good winter & better health. I am Very Faithfully Yours Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton 60 State Street, Boston, [*36 312*] Jan 31" 1877 Dear Miss Barton. The Treasurer of the Mass Genl Hospital tells me that you have not drawn the semi-annual payment due you January 1". I write only to remind you of it, & to suggest that if you will now arrange it, it may go on regularly hereafter without trouble to you. If Messrs Brown Bros & Co still keep your account it would be a convenient way of arranging it for you to give thema permanent power of attorney to collect for you twice a year. Excuse the liberty I take in making these suggestions. I hope the cold weather does not disagree with you & that you find yourself steadily gaining. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton If not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to P.O. Box 846, Boston. [*Ed. Dwight. Ansd March. 23. 77 - Oct. check 102.86*] BOSTON MAR [..?] [8?] PM MASS. Miss Clara Barton Dansville Livingston County. New York. 60 State Street, Boston, March 20" 1877 My dear Miss Barton. It gave me great pleasure to receive your letter of 16". It is very like you to do as you are doing. I enclose a check to your order for $102.86 due you Jan 1" 1877. On the 1" of July & Jan following then will be due you a similar amount, varying a little with the value of gold. On the other note I give a form of draft written to my order, which will give me the pleasure of hearing from you at least twice a year, a pleasure which I should besorry to forgo. But if I should be absent, or it should be otherwise convenient, you will easily substitute another name. That of Mr Peabody would be sufficient. I am glad to hear of your continued progress. If I did what I liked I should drop in upon you to lunch some bright morning. Miss Kupfer is so busy that I do not often see her when I am at the Asylum. She is as faithful as possible, but I fear does not take her load easily. Believe me, dear Miss Barton, Most sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight . Dansville July 1" 1877 F. H. Peabody Esq Treas Mass Genl Hospital 40 State St Boston. Please pay to the order of Edmund Dwight any sum due now at this date C. B. -------------If not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to P.O. Box 846, Boston. [*Ansd. April 20" 1877 -*] BOSTON [....?] [?] AM MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston County New York. 60 State Street, Boston, April 18" 1877 Dear Miss Barton. I am sorry to tell you that our friend Miss Kupfer, excellent as she is, does not make a good matron. Every one who knows her has the highest respect for her moral qualities, but as a woman of business she does not succeed. This to be attributed to her being a foreigner, and her age is such that she will not readily learn what she does not know now. She is very anxious to do well, but has not the Yankee, business faculty. TheDwight re Miss Kupfer consequence is that her work must be done in great measure by the Superintendent, who is in this way loaded when he ought to be relieved. I am sure you will understand, dear Miss Barton, how much I regret to arrive at this conclusion. I write at the request of the Chairman of the Trustees. The first year, in such a place, must be a year of trial & if it is evident that the place is not successfully filled it is better to let this be understood before the year expires. Will you manage it so with Miss Kupfer that she shall ask to be relieved? There is no hurry, but within the next three months I think we should be looking for another lady. We are very anxious that Miss Kupfer's feelings should be spared in every way, & look to you to accomplish this end. Yours most Sincerely Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton[*Box 846 Boston P.O. Ansd by card Aug 8 - 15*] BOSTON [AUG] 6 [MASS] Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston. Co. New York. Rockland House Nantasket Beach Aug 5 1877. Dear Miss Barton. It was a great pleasure to me to receive your note of 31". & the check which I enclose has been lying on my desk since the 2"; but I could not send it without a few lines of answer to you, & at my desk the time for those few lines never came. So I write you in the leisure of a Sunday morning at this Enclosed check $101.88. - F. H. Peabody Treas order Clara Barton. No 327.Edmund Dwight International problems Aug 1877 Eastern war [*15*] Sickness Dansville beautiful seaside place, where the long view of the beach is seen from my window, & I hear the gentle break of the rollers as they come swirling up the sands. We came here for a few weeks hoping the change of air might benefit my wife who, since November, has been a prisoner, generally to her room, & always to the house. I am not wholly disappointed, but I need not tell you that a man can put his hat on quicker than his wife can recover lost health. I am very glad that you are no longer to be numbered among the [....?] array of back-sliders. I doubt not that your repentance is sincere; and that you will be an invalid no longer than you can help. I suppose there are fanciful invalids because the world says so, but I never happened to know one. Those I have known have been only too real, & I am more inclined to accuse the world of a somewhat hard & selfishimpatience than the sick of [postures?]. It hardly pays to accept a life of confinement with hard labor. By the way, when our lawmakers invented that rather peculiar phrase were they thinking of a constant condition of childbirth? I am very glad to hear of Miss Küpfer's well being. We are endeavoring, thus far in vain, to fill her place. When I come to see you, which I place among the future pleasures, perhaps I shall find a room 2 in her cottage. As to the Eastern war I am very Muscovite, & much regret the serious check they seem to have received. It seems a pity that the powers of barbarians should have so much a fighting strength in them. The defensive is stronger than the offensive; & though coordination may not again be [so... sure?] by barbarians, yet the latter, once entrenched, inflicts immense loss before it can be dislodged. Is it not strange that England in her foreignpolitics is always wrong? Undoubtedly she is doing more than any other power for the civilization of the world, but her intense Jealousy for everyone else throws her into constant alliance with barbarism whenever any other power moves against the common enemy. I believe & hope that she will take possession of Egypt, which runs south to the great lakes under the equator. There is a large area of high & fertile land there fit to be inhabited by [whites?]. In three generations there would be a line of settlements from Alexandria to the Cape of Good Hope. & eastern Africa would belong to the world. The future belongs to Protestant Teutons, & this is their next move. After that, Africa being in a fair way, they may turn their attention to Pennsylvania. I think the American eagle feels smaller than he did last 4" July.the bone & sinew of the country has the rheumatism, & wants iron as a tonic. Perhaps we shall learn that a respect for the [last?] depends a good deal upon how it is administered, & that firearms are not a substitute for Judgement. How pleasant it is to settle the world's affairs with the tip of your pen. Believe me, dear Miss Barton, Yours most sincerely Edmund Dwight. Winchester Feb 2" 1878 Dear Miss Barton. It is a great pleasure to see your handwriting again. The truth is that I was a little selfish in that arrangement with the Hospital, as it results in a set-annual pleasure to me. Still more glad am I to know that you are in better health. I doubt not you will succeed in your Red Cross business. But what about repudiation, under the sneaking form of the [Silver bell]. It seems to me that the victims of Andersonville would rise from their graves I enclose check by our order $74.56 Suffolk Bk Boston or Metropolitan Bank New York. Add $25.00 paid Mr Pratt makes $99.56 received.and say "Was it for this we died - to save a country so dishonorable." It does not bear thinking of. As Genl Hawley says - that we should be 40 millions of people lying to & cheating each other. Washington must be a melancholy place with so much concentrated baseness in it. But why write about so sad a subject. Mr Pratt came into my office just after receiving your letter. I had a long talk with him. I do not think he has a claim in equity against the Rubber Co. He was trying his own experiments, at his own risk after his own benefit. In the case of a railroad company you pay them to carry you safely & if they do not fullfill their contract you have a claim against them. But there was no implied contract in Mr Pratts case. It is a very hard case indeed I wish that I could offer him my employment, & if anything occurs which would suit him I shall not forget your friend. Life goes very smoothly with me just now. My wife, though an invalid, is much better than last winter. Business matters though difficult are not impossible; & the country will slowly steadily recover if we are only honest. If not we have a long road before us - that of the transgressor. Is it not strange that people so intelligent If not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to P. O. Box 846, Boston. [*Ansd - Sept 27 78*] BOSTON SEP 9 [?] PM MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston County. New York. as we are should not be ['cute?] enough to know that honesty is the best policy. In the hands of an ignorant french peasant the Public debt is safe. while the Yankee nation will [succeed?] in continuing the greatest dishonesty with the greatest hypocrisy. But I have no right to revert to so odious a subject. I owe you an apology for several days delay in your remittance. but on Monday we had two feet of snow & a high, cold wind. The roads were impassible, & I spent a quiet day by my fireside without going into the city. This made two days work in one for Saturday & I had no chance to write. So you know that Mr & Mrs Lee are living in Baltimore in their own house. Perhaps you will see them. Remember me to Miss Kupfer. Are not you coming to Boston soon? I should be very glad to see you. Believe me, dear Miss Barton Most sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. 60 State St Boston Sep 9" '78 Dear Miss Barton I am delighted to see your handwriting again, & do not send your check because the book keeper of the Hospital is out of town for three days, & the Treasurer is very wisely afraid to pay any money without his clerk's consent. He is quite right. & I trust the delay is unimportant to you. My wife has been at the sea side with her father for six weeks & returns in a day or two. I have been with her partly, but have taken my two weeks members of the American Woman Anti filth & perfect drainage Society - Miss Barton President. Excuse my chatter but I mean it. I always want to go to see you in Washington. It would be a great pleasure.E. Dwight vacation at Mt Desert where I forget the day of the week, & see no shadows except natural ones. One charm of an island is that there is no railroad on it. needsome relief from the constant fan of machinery. You will remember Mr & Mrs Lee, with whom you dined one day at Paris. They have been in the neighborhood, & passed through the city last week - very much missed for seven years. They made many enquiries after you. About the yellow fever I think I take a much more prosaic view than you do. What does it all mean? It mean drains, well built, & kept clean. I do not think it means anything else. Did you read the account of the main drain at Grenada? You should. Providence is very particular about drains; & inflicts capital punishment for breach of sewage laws. Yellow fever I take to be simply a filth disease, & there is nothing more preventable than filth. If we knew the state of thedrains at Memphis I fancy we should wonder only that the fever has held off so long. Will not the women of the country study sewerage & acquaint themselves with traps? It is a branch of house keeping very important. Raise drainage to a "higher plane." Let us have gospels, & missions & platforms etc about disinfection & filth. Then Providence will smile & there will be no yellow fever. Do you consider no loss minute? If not, rally women the drains. Quite be a life [*Pray remember me most kindly to Miss Kupfer. And believe me Most sincerely Yours. Edmund Dwight*] If not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to P. O. Box 846, Boston. [*Ansd - Sept 27- 78*] BOSTON SEP 16 7 PM MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston County. New York. 60 State Street, Boston, Sep 14" 1878 Dear Miss Barton. I enclose check to your order Kidder Peabody &Co on Bank of America New York $97.70. Yours Sincerely Edmund DwightE. Dwight [*Sept 27/1878*] Did you receive my note of the 16" with check. Edmund Dwight 27" [*Edmund Dwight*] Boston Jan 3" '79 Dear Miss Barton Was a great pleasure to see your handwriting again & I enclose check for $91.23. I am sorry to hear that you have been ailing & wish you a speedy recovery. How much I should like to find myself in Dansville & in a certain "den." We could have a comfortable growl. I fancy the situation is a very charming one - a sort ofHappy Valley where trains do not arrive & which has two advantages over that of Ramelas. It has Miss Barton so water [came?]. The Prince would never have left home if his valley had been so well equipped with saturation for body & soul. Make my best regards to Miss Küpfer & for yourself receive the most sincere good wishes of Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton. I enclose a little calendar hoping they may also be happy days for you US POSTAL CARD. WRITE THE ADDRESS ON THIS SIDE - THE MESSAGE ON THE OTHER BOSTON SEP 23 1 PM MASS. Miss Clara Barton Dansville. Livingston County. New York[*Ansd. Jan. 10. 1880 Ed. Dwight*] Return to P. O. Box 846, BOSTON, Mass., If not delivered within 10 days. BOSTON JAN 9 2 PM MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. New York. 60 State St Boston Jan 9" 1880. Dear Miss Barton. It is a constant pleasure to receive your semi-annual . note and I return you good wishes for the New Year with great sincerity. The close of the old year was a sad one for me. In the same week of December I followed to the grave my sister & my father in law. The latter was a man of 82 & his death was a relief from much physical suffering. My sister older than myself & an [invalid?] for a year past. But the longer we live the less we consider death among the evils of this world. Do you remember Mrs Lee's pretty little daughter Mabel at Paris? Two weeks ago I received her wedding cards. She is Mrs George of Baltimore. How these children do get on in life. Pray remember me to Miss Kupfer & believe me, dear Miss Barton, Most sincerely Yours, Edmund Dwight. I inclose a check for $97.23 to your order receipt of [above?] please acknowledge. Miss Clara Barton. [*Ansd July 11. 1880 Sent receipt - *] Return to P. O. Box 846, BOSTON, Mass., If not delivered within 10 days. BOSTON JUL 7 5 PM MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston County. New York. Boston July 7" 1880 Dear Miss Barton, I never knew before what an excellent arrangement a semi-annual annuity was - when made with the right person. July & January are rather disagreeable months on general principles. They bring bills. Your little balance at the bank which was so comfortable on the first of the month is I enclose check to your order $97.23 invisible by the 15" Settlement is always unpleasant - we prefer vague generalities. But now July & January bring each their line from you & that changes them to times of pleasant expectation & fullfillment. I am glad to hear of your well fare. My course has been an agreeable one. There were a great many May-bugs in May; and still more June bugs in June & I thought it unkind in the arrangements of nature that she should think more of her disagreeable bugs that of my flowers, but excepting that I have had little to complain of. Considering that we live in such a world as this is - as Bishop Butler says - this is doing pretty well. I do not understand the gloomy view you take of our political matters. Politics require distance to be viewed fairly, which is the reason we like other people's so much better than our own. DwightBut I think there is great credit due to the conventions which throw over the machine men & chose character. We are trying a great experiment & we are succeeding. Whether our coach is better driven than other people's or not, Our passengers are better off, & that is the object of coaches, though drivers don't think so. But this can only be fought out with you in a personal interview which I still hope for. With regards to Miss Kupfer believe me Very Sincerely Yours. Edmund Dwight. [*Ackd by card July 21/1880*] Return to P. O. Box 846, BOSTON, Mass., If not delivered within 10 days. BOSTON JUL 20 12 M MASS. Miss Clara Barton Dansville. New York. 60 State Street, Boston, July 20" 1880 My dear Miss Barton. I have been at the Isle of Shoals for a week while your note has been lying on my desk. Excuse my blunder in not endorsing to your order. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight If any thing miscarries I would make it good: :Edmund DwightCLARA BARTON GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Dwight, Edmund Jan. 1881 - Sept. 1896 and Undated I enclose check to your order $97.23. I wish you a New Year to be happier than any of its forerunners. And now. Most sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton. 60 State St Boston Jan 4" 1881 My dear Miss Barton. It is great pleasure to hear from you again. It compensates one for the flight of time. I wish I might hear your Actions, but no doubt they will appear in print, & than I shall read them. Is there any printed account of what you did at Andersonville? If so pray help me to get it. The thing was too horrible to bear thinking of when it [*Answered Jay 7 - 1880 Edmund Dwight*] Return to P. O. Box [846] 1824, BOSTON, Mass., If not delivered within 10 days. BOSTON JAN 4 5 PM 1881 MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston Co New York. occurred but time blinds the sharpest eyes. Thank you for your speeches. The very first time I am called on for a speech I shall take one of yours, & rely upon you not to disclose the fraud. If you expose me I shall consider what to do. The latter part of the year has been a sad one to me from the death of my sister Mrs Mills on the first October. She was a great sufferer, but an example of courage & rectitude & self- sacrifice. The death of such leaves the sweetest of memories behind them. Of six sisters I have but one left, which gives food for reflection. And do you like the prospective change in your pretty valley? Is every lovely spot to be embellished by a factory? Is every stream to be used as a "privilege"? I thought the charm of your town was its quiet. But I suppose there will be some nooks & corners left. Boston Jan 17" 1881. My dear Miss Barton. It was very kind of you to send me your photograph. I value it very highly. Thank you too for the pamphlet. Nothing in history seems to me so bad as this. It does not bear thinking of even now. I enclose a card of a young man which I believe was like me once. but no one would know[DANSVILLE?] JAN [?] 1881 it now. It may remind you of one who is always Most sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton. [*Answered by card - Jay 20 1881 Edmund Dwight - *] BOSTON JAN 17 2 PM 1881 MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Dansville. Livingston Co. New York. 60 State Street, Boston, July 19" 1881 My dear Miss Barton. I am very glad to receive your note of 14" & enclose check for $80 to your order. If it will serve you to use my name as one of the persons named in your act of incorporation, it is quite at your service, but no one ever heard of it outside my native village. I am sorry that any woman, especially one from this town, shouldDANSVILLE JAN 19 1 PM N. Y. do an act so annoying as that you speak of. But I believe that all good work is hard work, & gives an ache either to head, heart or back. - sometimes to all three. I should like to go to Dansville NY. It is just the place I should like to find myself in your being there. But as we do not always do all that we should like perhaps I shall not accomplish it this summer. But there are others, & hope springs eternal. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight [*Answered. - July 20 1881 Edmund Dwight - *] Return to P. O. Box [846] 1824, BOSTON, Mass., If not delivered within 10 days. BOSTON JAN 19 12 M MASS. Miss Clara Barton Dansville. N York. 60 State St Boston July 22" 1882. My dear Miss Barton. I have your note of 18" In some respects time certainly goes very rapidly, and yet it always seems a long interval between your semi-annual notes. It does not seem so very long ago since I first called on Miss Clara Barton as the "maisie" of Belleville; but it does seem a long time since I received your last note. Perhaps the[DAN]SVILLE JUL 9 [?] M the six months period seems longer because in its course I so often think of you, & wonder how you are doing, & whether by chance I may drop in upon you at Washington or Dansville. This makes it all the more pleasant when your missive arrives at last; especially when it brings such good news of your health as this one does. I can understand that you should be well when your Red Cross work is getting on so swimmingly. My life runs smoothly & very busily. Besides the care of two manufacturing corporations, the affairs of the Hospital & Asylum rather slide into my hands because I am always at home. Just now the Treasurer is away for a year, & I have taken his place till his return. At the Hospital we are building a lodging house for the nurses to contain 54 separate bed rooms besides parlor-matron's rooms &c. We find that we cannot do better for the patients [*363 ✓ Hosp*] MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. EDMUND DWIGHT, TREASURER, No. 60 State Street, BOSTON. Jan 5" 1883 My dear Miss Barton. I am delighted at the prospect of seeing you in Boston. It will be wise to drop me a line as soon as you arrive that I may call upon you. I wish I was in town but am still struggling with furniture makers & others who no doubt have a right to [exact?] for our improvement in virtue. I am glad to hear of your health & wish you a happy new year. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight I enclose check $100 to your order.Recd by hand of Edm[und] D[wi]ght of the Mass Genl Hospital [...?] the sum of ninety-nine 56/100 Dollars as [interest?] up to Jany 1 - 1878 CARRIER 16 FEB 2 PM [*36 3 ✓ Hosp*] T What What the Red What the Red Cross is 60 State St Boston May 5 '83 My dear Miss Barton. I hear from a reliable source that you have entered upon the duties of Superintendent at South Framingham. I sincerely congratulate the state of Mass. My only fear is for your health. If that holds out all will be well. I was extremely sorry that when you were in the city in JanuaryFeb 15 / 1878 I had no house to ask you to. Now I am in the country again & glad to get home. If you ever leave your charge you must let me know. When may I come to see you? I will come whenever you are ready. Meanwhile you know, my dear Miss Barton, how much pleasure it would give me to be able to serve you in any way. You have so many & so powerful friends that you can never be at a loss, but remember that I am always at your service. I wish you your usual success in your difficult & interesting work. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight Winchester July 3" [1883] My dear Miss Barton. I recd your note of June 30" just as I was leaving my office today, & postponed sending you a check till Friday, as I go to New Hampshire Thursday. I will go to see you with the greatest pleasure after this week, on any Thursday or Saturday, the latter preferred if equal convenient to you. I would rather go this month than in August but I shall not run away till September. I am very sorry to hear of a want of strength. It is a pity we can't always have the tools we want to work with in this world. But you have done something already. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight [*Edmund Dwight Ans July 7th*] WINCHESTER JUL 4 1883 MASS. Miss Clara Barton. Prison for Women. South Framingham Mass. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. EDMUND DWIGHT, TREASURER, No. 60 State Street, BOSTON. July 6 - 1883 Miss Clara Barton. Dear Madam. I enclose check on the Suffolk Nat'l Bank - Boston for $90.- being the amount of the semi annual payment to you. from the Mass. Gen'l Hospital. Very truly yours. Edmund Dwight. Treas. by H. L. Rand 36 Gnl Hosp July 6th 1883. " Recd from Edmund Dwight Treasurer of Massachusetts General Hospital $90.00 on the Suffolk National Bank Boston, as semi-annual payment to date. 60 State St July 9" [*83*] Dear Miss Barton. I will go up to Framingham next Thursday 12" leaving Boston at 11.05 unless I hear from you to the contrary. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton.Winchester Aug 16" [1883?] My dear Miss Barton. I only succeeded yesterday in learning your address & then was obliged to go to New Hampshire. Will you kindly send me a line at 50 State St telling me know at what hour Monday I may have the pleasure of calling on you. Sincerely Yours Edmund DwightEdmund Dwight fr Mr & Mrs Lee of Tours - [*33 Dwight*] 44 Boul Haussmann Hotel Canterbury June 24" [1885?] Dear Miss Barton. Mr & Mrs Lee. Americans living at Tours for several years are in town, & beg that you would do them the favor of dining with them at 6 1/2 to day at their rooms Hotel France & Bath Rue St Honoré. I have told them that you would be mutually interested in each other. They would have called upon you, but were under engagements which occupy the morning, & return to Tours tomorrow. Will you waive economy & dine with them? I will meet you [either] at the door of the Hotel France & Bath at 6.15 [or] if you like, & at any rate shall be with Mrs Lee at dinner. Will you kindly send an answer by bearer? Yours Very Truly Edmund Dwight. [*R July 28 85 Edmund Dwight " 29*] [*Request him to hold my interest.*] Return to P. O. BOX 1824, BOSTON, Mass., If not delivered within 10 days. WASH. D. C. FORWARDED JUL 27, 1 PM 85 BOST MASS JUL 24 2 [? PM?] Miss Clara Barton. [1031 T St NW] [Washington.] [D.C.] Dansville Livingston Co. N. Y. 131 Devonshire Street, Boston, July 24" 1885 My dear Miss Barton. It is so long since I have heard from you that I fear you may be ill; I write to enquire & to ask if I can be of any service to you; or if I shall forward to you money due from the Hospital. Truly Yours Edmund Dwight. Miss Clara Barton. [*Dwight*] Boston Feb 4" '89 Dear Miss Barton. It was very kind of you to send me your pamphlet & report about the yellow fever campaign of the Red Cross. It is extremely interesting, & must have given you great pleasure in your success. I ought to have acknowledged it earlier, but the last of the year is a time of pressure about various matters, & only this morning have I finished up a jobTREASURY DEPARTMENT JUL 27 12 M 1885 WASHINGTON D. C. JUL 25 9 AM 1885 2 DANSVILLE, N. Y. JUL 28 10AM RECD. CARRIER JUL 25 2 PM 7 of extra work which has taken up the spare time for six weeks past. What can I tell you of news? We have none now except what comes via Washington. I hope we shan't make asses of ourselves about Samoa, but we have an unhappy facility that way in foreign affairs. Luckily our Celtic friends are not ready to seize the helm of state & steer us where they please, as they did in the Sackville business. Do you remember the name of Crispus Attucks, a deplorable negro, who in early days before the revolution headed a mob attacking a sentry on State St, & got shot, & killed the Boston Massacre? Well, Crispus now has a monument of bronze & stone on Boston Common; & three others with him who were also shot - The name of one being Patrick our Celtic friends warmed up & joined in. So what with the negro vote & the Paddy vote they voted themselves martyrs & gave themselves glory. Such is Boston Nov 19" 1890 My dear Miss Barton. It is a great pleasure & relief to me to receive your note of 17" I was pained at not seeing you when you were in Boston, & feared that you might think me negligent. But I did not hear that you were in town till Wednesday & then I had trouble in finding your address; & then business took me out of town; & then you had flown, & I had the mortification of feeling that Note: Known as the "Murchison letter," the "Sackville business" here refers to British ambassador to the United States, Sir Lionel Sackville-West. In September 1888, Sir Lionel wrote to a 'Charles F. Murchison' who claimed to be a British expatriate living in California. He had asked the ambassador's advice as to which candidate he should vote for in the current election. Sir Lionel responded that the British supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1888 presidential election over Republican Benjamin Harrison. 'Charles F. Murchison' was a fictitious name for George Osgoodby, a Republican. When the letter was published just before the election, it turned Irish-American voters away from Cleveland who lost the election to Harrison. Sir Lionel Sackville-West lost his ambassadorship following the incident. Crispus Attucks, ca. 1723-March 5, 1770, a stevedore of African and Native American ancestry, was killed in a confrontation with a British sentry in Boston on March 5, 1770. He is believed to have been the first American killed in the Boston Massacre, the beginning of the American Revolution. A monument honoring Attucks and other victims of the Boston Massacre was erected on the Boston Common in 1888.fame - But then the Duke of York has a column. We are having a charming winter & only today are making ice for summer use. I am very well - better than ever. I hope you are the same. If you come north this summer you will be sure to let me know. Mrs Dwight sends her kindest regards. The next time you come you must give us a day or two. Believe me dear Miss Barton. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. you had been in Boston a week without my seeing you. But if you forgive it all is well. I am glad you met that dear little lady who was Annabel Lee. I wish I saw them oftener. Good friends are not so plenty in this world that we can spare any we have. I am very glad to hear of your good health. May it continue & increase. For myself I have never been so well in my life. If this is growing old I am glad to know it. Since I took the remedies of Dr Hayes of Buffalo in March '87 I have been entirely free from asthma. And this makes a difference. If I ever come to Washington I shall be sure to call upon you. I have no doubt the Treasurer of the Hospital will honor your drafts on presentation although Browning Bros have failed. What a fall. No house has so longheld a position so conspicuous & so honorable. And no house ever can again. If Mrs Dwight knew I was writing she would send her love & hopes of seeing you again at our house. We are still in the country in this wonderful November Do you remember the guinea hens who were so noisy. They are quiet now - Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight [1890?] My Dear Mr. Dwight: - I cannot help it if you do not want me to write to you; I must do it all the same. It is a great joy to me to see your handwriting in these days of busy cares. I am glad that you approve of my little statement to the people. There seems to be such a muddle of ideas growing out of the mishaps in Congress that it was very apparent that somebody must say something, and that, you know, is the place where I always come in; the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. I do not suppose it will be possible now to rally sufficient interest to ship our grain to Russia of ourselves, although we have the best of offers from shipping men in New York, and it is likely that Russia must come and take it away herself. I should much rather see it go as the ship you took to France, but I scarcely expect that now. I am sorry you have been ill; that wretched191 Marlborough St. Jan 15" '92 My dear Miss Barton. I see your appeal for aid for the Russian famine & write to say that I am in the house after an attack of grippe which has been prostrating. The Mayor appointed, some time ago, a committee to attend to the matter; & I have no doubt it will be properly attended to. If I do not subscribe here I shall send my contribution directly to you. How can one tolerate the affluence in which we are living with the knowledge of such suffering unrelieved. Your appeal, with your name, gives exactly the security needed. Do not with all your business take time to acknowledge this. I could not let your appeal pass by in silence. Wishing you a happy New Year. I am. Yours most Sincerely Edmund Dwight Miss Clara Barton.[*R Jan 16 92 Edmund Dwight " 18*] BACKBAY. BOSTON. MASS. JAN 15 5 - PM 1892 Miss Clara Barton. Washington. D. C. [*14 Ford?*] [*Exhibit 9*] 50 State Street, Boston, April 9" 1894 My dear Miss Barton. It occurs to me that you may like to know that there stands to your credit on the books of the Mass Gen'l Hospital the sum of $777.84 Seven hundred & seventy-seven dollars. This is subject to your demand at any time. The papers say that your great work is to be crowned with ample merits. I congratulate you. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. [*Jan 7 Edmund Dwight Mar 9 95*] BOSTON, MASS. JAN 7 3 - 15 P. 1895 Miss Clara Barton Soc of the Red Cross. Washington. D. C. 50 State St Boston Jan 7" 1895. Dear Miss Barton. You may not have learned the misfortune that befell me in May - the death of my dear wife. It was very sudden: from pneumonia. I felt no serious alarm till only a few hours before the end. Six months have passed. I have been surrounded by the kindnessWASHINGTON, D. C. REC'D JAN 18 3 PM 92 6 [*Jan 16 -91 Edmund Dwight*] WASHINGTON, D. C. REC'D JAN. 8 11 30 AM 1895 of friends more constant & tender than I could have imagined. I live on in the old way externally but every thing else is changed. I feel like a man who has suffered amputation & now after the shock is trying to learn to walk on one leg. I have tried in vain to learn of your welfare during the past year. If I had known where you were this summer I should have made a pilgrimage to see you. I fear you must have exhausted your strength on the Sea Islands But you did a splendid work & that is all you care for. Drop me a line when you can & tell me of your welfare. Most sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight The American National Red Cross. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, October 1, 1881 REINCORPORATED, APRIL 17, 1893. For the Relief of Suffering by War, Pestilence, Famine, Flood, Fires, and other Calamities of Sufficient Magnitude to be deemed National in Extent. The Organization acts under the Geneva Treaty, the provisions for which were made in International Convention at Geneva, Switzerland, August 22, 1864, and since signed by nearly all civilized nations. The United States gave its adhesion by Act of Congress, March 1, 1882. Ratified by the Congress of Berne, June 9, 1882. Proclaimed by President Arthur, July 26, 1882. ___________________________ HEADQUARTERS: WASHINGTON, D. C. March 11. XXXX. BOARD OF CONSULTATION: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND MEMBERS OF THE CABINET. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS: CLARA BARTON, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER. GEORGE KENNAN, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. STEPHEN E. BARTON, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. WALTER F. PHILLIPS, GENERAL SECRETARY. GEORGE H. PULLMAN, FINANCIAL SECRETARY. DR. JULIAN B. HUBBELL, GENERAL FIELD AGENT. DIRECTORS: CLARA BARTON. GEORGE KENNAN GEORGE H. PULLMAN, WALTER P. PHILLIPS, STEPHEN E. BARTON, PETER V. DE GRAW, DR. JULIAN B. HUBBELL, DR. JOSEPH GARDNER. My Dear Mr. Dwight: - Since the 9th. of January, when your letter came into my hand, I have known of your misfortune and tried soulfully, to help you bear it. I can understand how poor and broken life must seem to you and how lamed and halt you feel on the one leg that must henceforth carry you on. I can see how, "externally" you may seem to your friends to be much the same, but the warmest and tenderest of friends seldom penetrate below the surface. One recalls, in these conditions, the pathetic line of the lovelorn girl, taken from home for a change, who says pitifully, of the kind efforts of her friends - "And if they win a smile from me, They think that I forget." I know how poor are words of condolence from even the nearest and best. The great healer, Time, alone comes to the rescue. May he have already have commenced his saving work on the heart that has been so crushed. Let me thank you for your sympathy and appreciation of our heavy work at Port Royal. We know, who saw and did it that it was a splendid work and that the best of it is yet to be. If every one of my [....?] and helpful [members?] were dead, the work would still go on. (2) Thousands of those black faces, now peaceful and covered with smiles, would have been long ago, under the sand, and full fields of ample food, they will this year revel in, would have been barren wastes, with hunger stalking everywhere. We are glad to know this and to have you know it. Our heavy work for the past months as well as years has been, our effort too protect the insignia and name of the Red Cross, in order to p prevent the results of our labors from being stolen from us. But all for one cause or another, up to the present, result in a fruitless effort. It was our bill, unanimously passed by both houses, that the President laid down at the stroke of the clock. Of course, I am sorry, but all things considered, I do not know that I can blame, this unruly school needed the lesson which they would not heed from him before. I do believe in law and if he is obeying it, I cannot blame him. I wish that some chance would bring us together once more and I continue to hope, that it will be so, that something will bring me to the East if not you to the South, and that some memories of the old days may be lived over. The next best to this is a line now and then, which we must not altogether neglect. With deepest regard and sympathy, Yours abidingly, Clara Barton Edmund Dwight, Esq. 50 State street. Boston, Mass.[*33*] Parker House, Boston, ........ 189... Dec 30 . 1895 Dear Mr Dwight You must have observed that I am in the city. and you must know that one of my first and most earnest desires is to meet you. They tell me I am to be at a meeting at City Hall? I believe at noon to day, "Aldermanic Chambers". Will you not be there? I need you, They all need you; I am at this hotel - Let me see you somewhere Our stay will be short, Most sincerely Clara Barton, 50 State Street, Boston, Jan 14" 1896 My dear Miss Barton. Will you kindly send me for the Boston Committee any information you may have as to the action of the Red Cross Assn in view of the announcement by the Turkish government. I should be glad to hear by letter or wire by two o'clock Thursday. Sincerely Yours Edmund Dwight. Edmund Dwight Jan 15 _______ 96 Ans. 50 State Street, Boston, Jan 16" 1896 My dear Miss Barton. Your telegram was received this morning. The committee adjourned till Monday morning. Please send me by Monday at 10 o'clock any information you may have with regard to your future movements. Truly Yours Edmund DwightEdmund Dwight Jan 18 ________ 96 " 18 Boston Sep 28" 1896 My dear Miss Barton I was very glad - indeed to receive your note of Aug 16" from Vienna & now I heartily welcome you home after your perplexing but most successful labors. It seems beyond the scope of the western mind to follow the workings of the mind of the unspeakable Turk. But we have reason to be thankful that he was civil to you & your party though he does slaughter those whom you succor. The newspaper says that you are with my friend Mr Almon at Newport & I take the chance of this finding you there. I need not tell you how glad I should be if you could show me any way in which I might serve you. Once more welcome home. Sincerely Yours Edmund DwightEdmund Dwight Sept 28/96 [*33 - Dwight C.B. letter*] Dear M Dwight - [D...] Your letter came only this morning - it must have been overlooked in our office on Saturday - I have made its contents known to Miss Küpfer who only looks me steadily in the face and does not speak .... I to have considered the proposition with few words - It is too good a thing on every hand to be set aside without further attention - I could not acquit my conscience, if in any way I [stop] allowed myself to stand between I should feel that I (?) a dark subway First I should withhold poor Miss K [some] a better position that I could give her would hurt her and next I should note that hospital of a better service - and a more faithful friend than it would find again - I have asked Miss K if she would write a line to Mr Dwight = but like the [Joly 2 foxes?] Lady [.... ....?] [Bline?], she only modestly shook her head, and nicely answered Nine" - So I write to say that I will see that she comes to Boston by the [Morning?] train [on Thursday] which leaves [....?] at on Thursday morning - if this time suits you, if not drop a line naming your own time and she will meet it - Like yourself the more I think of it the more [I think] the more desirable it appears - and the more I feel it a providential thing - If you knew all her qualities & character as I do, how perfectly adapted to the position she would prove, it would look as [marvelous?] to you as it does to me that such a demand & supply should have met apparently by the merest chance - her self distrust & want of confidence - will give way - as she learns her ground and masters the situation, but her firmness of purpose, her integrity her high sense of honor, her faithfulness, industry & character will never yield an inch, and [although?] calm, quiet, & patient she will always be mistress, and no one will dare dispute it - She is in faith a SwedenborgenOffice of Correspondence with the friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army, Washington, D. C., January ......, 1867. Dear Sir: Herewith enclosed please find rolls of missing men number 5, accompanied by an explanatory heading, which I trust renders its object and character sufficiently apparent. If not too much trouble, will you have the kindness to publish the list of your State (with the heading) in your paper. Your readers may know the fate of some of these brave men and comrades who have so nobly given up their lives, and whose uncertain history is deepening the shadows in so many thousand homes. In the hope that we may be able to throw light upon these obscure cases, and relieve some of the anxiety and distress attending them, I have taken the liberty to solicit the co=operation of yourself and your readers. Yours, very respectfully, and measures every act of life. & the "true mindedness" of her own soul - I will see that she comes to you and she [will] endeavor what I cannot [About] I have heard nothing further from the [roy?] pedler - but I have a philosophy about him what I explained to Miss Küpfer was that the fact of his dealing in honey & wax was the probable cause of her finding him so sticky & hard to get off. 71 Sickness N. E. Village Dear Mr Dwight - I am at New England M Dwight - Dear sir Some good angel must have inspired you to write me I was so anxious to hear of you and only my physical weakness has kept me from coming to search for you by again. I had "somewhat" to say to you as you know, and as soon as I am strong enough shall now find a way to say it - yes it is true I am at Ne E still - and have been since last April - The "world" has not "treated" me badly in these last few years, but I could have better borne some bad treatment [than all the illness] I from others this all I have had to bear from myself - I have been an invalid most of the time - I grew very weak at Carlsrhue, directly after Belfort - recovered a little went to England in the spring of 72 kept about some months, but in Oct, took down with a cough - became too ill to get off the island - was confined to my bed eight months - in June 73 was able to get over to Paris and recruit support to come home in Oct, my cough had left me but [from] I was weak & by its return went as soon as I could to Marburgh for the winter, broke down again with "Prostration of the nervous system," if any one knows what that is - which was deepened and newly rendered me unwell [followed?] by the illness [& death] of my only sister in Worcester whom I strove five months to reach - was poorly but [brave] to the last at the peril of my life on the 24 of May 74, arriving at 4 PM to find that she had died at 6 in the morning - I will see her dead fore ever - it was one year from the time before I 72 [Event?] 73 [England?] 74 Wash came home 75 came to NE [*Rev Richard C. Stone - Deacon honored friend & Teacher one year ago this very week I recd a precious letter from you enclosed to Mr Vassall, through all these months it has been near me while I have waited for the proper moment when I might answer it with my own hand. I knew that M Vassall acknowledged it + I longed to tell you myself how dear and welcome it was and how your remembrance and sympathy lifted and refreshed my desolate and afflicted soul*]Office of Correspondence with the friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., .................................., 1866 Dear Sir: Herewith enclosed please find rolls of missing men numbers 3 and 4, accompanied by an explanatory heading, which I trust renders their object and character sufficiently apparent. If not too much trouble, will you have the kindness to publish the list of your State (with the heading) in your paper. Your readers may know the fate of some of these brave men and comrades who have so nobly given up their lives, and whose uncertain history is deepening the shadows in so many thousand homes. In the hope that we may be able to throw light upon these obscure cases, and relieve some of the anxiety and distress attending them, I have taken the liberty to solicit the co=operation of yourself and your readers. Yours very respectfully, before I left the house again, and that to be removed here - I could not tell you suffering physical & mental of that you and I could not if I could, - only a small portion of the time I could stand alone -averaged less than two hours sleep in 24 for almost a year, could not write my name for over four months, could not hear a letter read or see any [one] my friends or scarcely my attendents - little by little it has [your letter since I] until now I am about my house - (for I always keep home) I have four attenders & nurse & housekeeper Miss Minna Kupfer of Berne Suisse - a friend I made there, and who came to me as soon as she learned of my illness here a year or more ago and now leaves me, - I am gaining, slowly, weak still, have had neither physician nor medicines treatment for over a year; Nature does her work as best she knows how [but I presume to have] what means of strength she may ever give me back I cannot guess probably not great, I suppose diseased nerve centers and worn out systems are not likely to mend very firmly - But one day I shall want to see you and you will let me do so I think, if I do not get able to go to Boston, you will come to see me I believe, and when I see how it is likely to be with me I shall write and tell you Meanwhile it would interest me just as deeply to know how the world has treated you in these last few years as it does you to know of me. Cannot I know something of you - and can I send my most sincere and resfully regard to M Jackson - whom I dear like one day to seeOffice of Correspondence with the friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., .................................., 1865. Dear Sir: Your communication respecting ......................................... For an article contained in your yesterdays Issue of the Daily I wish to obtain several copies. [if you have them on hand will you kindly ... direct to be lain aside for me] if you have some [copies numbers] left will you oblige me by directing them to be lain aside to the number of ten or twelve - and let me know by the enclosed card, when I will at once [send] remit the charge for them . has been received and forwarded to ............ friends; for which favor please accept my sincere thanks. I am, Sir, Yours, very respectfully, I. What health I had failed in the West of France directly after "Belfort & [Montbeliard?]." [I went to Carls] I was ill in Carlsruhe the latter part of the winter, & the spring, [friend?] in London leaving it came for me, I got as far as Paris when it was [decreed or decided?] that London was still too cold & damp for me, and I was taken to Italy till June, return to London went to Isle of Wight in Sept; in Oct broke down with cough, when some [were?] to - [...... ...... to .... of?] Scratch, Scratch Scratch with care On the open leaf of the secretaire Twas my faithful friend for many a yair And since could be commentaire For pencil pen wax & [....?] are [sp... left just ... there?] There are pigeon holes for the filed lettair And a drawer on each side for black papaire So train a little you lump ordair And keep each in its place of its everywhere - [*Messrs To Edmund Dwight Messrs Dwight and Jackson*] [*....? Clara Bar*] [* 18 15 6 6 108*] Mr Dwight My dear friend, I promised to [call you] tell you a time when I should like most to receive a visit from you, and you in turn promised to come. [.... any day after this, I shall be] If I am well enough now to enjoying a visit, and any day after this I should be most happy to see you, [...?] as I never leave here all days are the same to me, so .. please appoint your own time, only let me know that I may be as free from other [...?] company as possible, dont let it be too long postponed 3100 recd 5 000 5 25.000 _______ 10.000 15.500 Bank & ________ interest 40.000 38 751 _________ 1.249 Dec 10 Jan 10 Feb 10. Besancon 2800 Saunier? 3200 Belfort 6073 Montbeliard? 4240 Dis 20532 Stras[bourg] 3344 Ant - 500 40.000 Marne 375 1300 2.617 mat _________ 6 1/2 ____________ 20.532 _________ 42.617 - all [15.500] 18 00 20.532 Disbursm [2 619] 1 56 ___________ __________ _________ 22 085 [38 751] 19, 56 15 500 ____________ 5) 6. 585 ____________ 1. 317Office of Correspondence with the Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army, Washington, D. C., January......................., 1867. Dear Sir: Herewith enclosed please find rolls of missing men number 5, accompanied by an explanatory heading, which I trust renders its object and character sufficiently apparent. If not too much trouble, will you have the kindness to publish the list of your State (with the heading) in your paper. Your readers may know the fate of some of these brave men and comrades who have so nobly given up their lives, and whose uncertain history is deepening the shadows in so many thousand homes. In the hope that we may be able to throw light upon these obscure cases, and relieve some of the anxiety and distress attending them, I have taken the liberty to solicit the co=operation of yourself and your readers. Yours, very respectfully,