CLARA BARTON GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Hinton, Richard J. & Isabel July 1871 - Apr. 1906 and undated}Washington D.C. July 4th 1871. My Dear Miss Barton: - Have you missed, I wonder amid the many warm greetings which must have flown over the sea to you, the greeting which has often been in my heart, if not yet recorded by my pen. Somehow, dear Friend, for so I may call you, I feel it has seemed to me that I have been near now, is that not enough on such a personal topic? Can you realize, my Dear Friend, the deep & affectionate pride with which I have followed Every mention of your honored name; Every word about your noble service. The pride has been two-fold,-that of seeing an American woman shedand spoken with you, (though silence like a veil has fallen between us) amid the perilous & beneficent work you've been performing. Am I not right in this? I take to my soul the sweet hope that our friendship - that of intellectual comrades & peers - may I say? - was as manifest to you as it seems to have been to me. Hence, I sha(ll) not apologize for not writing before. often as I have wanted so to do. Sometimes it has not been, because I did not know your address. At others, I felt that it would be an intrusion on your time & again I have had a sad & serious domestic affliction in the loss of my darling daughter too. As for knowing your address, I am still in doubt, but will find how to direct this before I send it.reaches you, in reply? I shall be very grateful. Do you care to know what & how I am doing? It's a long & yet very short story. The death of (my) our Mildred is the severest blow our lives ever received. She died of brain fever last October such lustre on her national name (?), and even more that it should be - Clara Barton. You were dear to us all before - you belonged to us then by virtue of a common service - you belong the more to us, because the later service has been larger - international & recognized by the world. I fear(?) it is a personal blessingin trying to write out what is in me for you. I wonder when, dear friend, you mean to return if ever. Many are anxious to see you - and I am not least so of any. May I ask for a line, Dear Friend, if this because I can say, I think with truth this noble woman has blessed me with her friendship & made me exceeding rich with her confidence I have just read yesterday's Tribune in which are letters from Madame Margoe & Miss Barton. I am spending the "wee sma(?)" hours of our natal day[*Richard J Hinton Ansd July 31. 1871 from Lyons*] Where is Dorrance now-a-days? I should like to know. May I ask a word from you if this reaches - & beleive me Always your Devoted Friend Richard J. Hinton Wife has been sick all winter & spring in consequence. She's Better now & gone North for the summer. I am keeping bachelor's hall & don't like it. I am "pegging away" at my usual work, and slowly winning I have had an article in May Atlantic which attracted a considerable share of attention. It refers to the Labor movement, especially as represented by Trades Unionsvery lovely & pleasant. The city improves greatly & promises to become yearly more & more attractive. The work before you will I presume will I fear fill your time for long to come - but come back to America & home friends as soon as possible the International &c. Other work of a similar character is laid on me. I shall be only too glad if you can send me any mem of your own work, circulars, &c. showing [how] how organized & what has been accomplished. I need hardly say, that I want to write abt it, if you have no objection. Washington, though warm, just now, isHinton 1874 excessively warm, but Washington has on it most attractive garments. Goodbye, Dear Friend, & beleive us both affectionately Yours. With hopes of recovery & the love that has ever been I remain Yours Richd J Hinton Washington D.C. June 14th 1874 My Dear Friend: Lt. Westfall tells me your address is at Worcester, and when I saw him last, he spoke hopefully of your health. We trust that his hopes are cohering into results & that you are [going] getting better in reality. Latterly life has indeed been [sad?] to you - you who have done so much to make it brighter & better for others.soon. It also, my Friend, remembers long. Please write us, & tell us of your condition & its prospects. Mrs H holds you warmly in her heart, & has scolded me for my apparent neglect. I do not think you have deemed me intentionally neglectful. Remember me to Miss May– Say I still "Observe-her" with pleasant remembrances. Forgive the atrocious pun & charge it to my English "H." It always did trouble me. The weather here has been I find it hard to beleive you are to remain an invalid – for Clara Barton always dwells in my memory, as a strong, helpful, large brained & large-hearted woman – whose work crowns & ennobles her. It seems to me you must get reasonably strong again – so that you will be able to do a little more, if it only be in giving the world, in your own modest way, some account of [what] the work you've done. The world seems to forget veryWashington D.C. Dec. 12th 1875 My Very Dear Miss Barton- I have just learned through our good Wilcox of your address, & if I do not misunderstand him- of your partial recovery. For these many months I have hoped to learn some word of or from you. My last note was dated Boston & has been unanswered. Whether I had offended, or you were too sick to write --either hypothesis was very painful. Will you not answerthis? Our hearts warm to you always. Mrs H. often speaks of you. I want to send you my new book. We have been in W. since the 1st of June & propose to remain. I am doing literary work, not journalistic & am better pleased Yours Always Affectionately Richard J. Hinton Remember me please to Miss May. Washington D.C. Dec 19th 1875 My Dear Clara – Thanks for your good & prompt reply. Somehow it breathed your better atmosphere & I felt in it that you were decidedly improved in health. As to the letter - last written – I had a strong impression that the last related to a possible visit of Anna to Worcester But I was in such a muddle that I am not clear, certainly, as to [?] your recollection. Dear Anna's health is quite good, & we neither of us feel the effect of inhospitable Boston except in an over sensitiveness to colds. I sent you a copy of my book – Radical Leaders– which I hope came to hand all right.[*Col. R. J. Hinton Washington Dec 12/75 Ansd - " 12/ "*] It is being very favorably received. I am going to write one on the Radilcal writers of England – Like the Positivists – John Morley – Thorold Rogers – Ludlow & others. Also one on European Socialists – Probably I shall write one on American Public Characters for Trubner & Co – London – in which case you will be my woman – Harriet Beecher Stowe – and one or two others. I am regularly employed on The Republic – a copy of which I send & will forward regularly hereafter – Salary is small, but its better than the [trivial?] newspaper work. I wish you were well enough to write– There is so much for you to write & you could do it so simply & effectively. If you were living nearer – say Phila – where the climate is mild & the country & city blend so accessibly, we might see each other occasionally, & then I could help to put the matter together – be your amanuensis – will you not think of this– I want at least to write your memoirs. Anna wants it very much. Wash. is very pleasant. It is a little singular to see the old pro slavery faces & hear their talk again. The "improvements" have not improved its health, though. The miasmais too often a "self-evident proposition". The "little man" is at home at present he returns to school after Xmas. We are quite proud of him – Anna sends her warmest love to you – in which I join. Please remember me to Miss May. Goodbye for this time – write soon & beleive me Always yours Fraternally R. J. Hinton [*R. J. Hinton Dec. 19. 1875 A. " 28, "*] Washington D.C. Feb 7th 1876. My Dear Friend: You know that delays in replying mean only business with me. Your last good letter has been unanswered only because I have really had no time. We are both so glad to feel in it the evidence of your recovery and cheerful spirit. By the way, I had a note from Mr.Bradlaugh, in which he sends his rememberances to you, speaking also of his pleasure at your restoration to health of which he has heard in England. So you see, Dear, you are not forgotten. How glad you must be for Dorrance's - your boys - happiness. When Messieur the Consul + Madame le Princesse arrive, I suppose that there will be great rejoicing. The [head?] you cast forth returns after many days. Truly - the world does move. Anna says that it will give her great pleasure to to meet Mr + Mrs Atwater, + to be of service here to the latter. About writing. I think - nay, I am almost sure that the Atlantic will take articles. I think [*Richard J. Hinton Feb. 7. 1876*] if you would write 1st Say - your Strassbourg life - then, 2d going to Metz &c & 3d your Paris Experiences weaving, in as many incidents as possible as well as details of your methods, they would gladly be accepted. Other papers could follow & then you would make a little book of them. This is the best road [?] in the direction [*1876*] indicated For ourselves we are well - having a tolerably good time & plenty of work on my part. Anna sends her warmest love & wishes that the Capital was not forbidden to you - You belong to us. You know I love you, Clara, & so I remain with affectionate regards to May Always yours Richard J. HDear Clara — Will it please you to see my pictured semblance? I feel sure of it, & therefore send it with the assurance that the real me holds in the warmest corner of my heart. I shall always love & honor you. Anna sends her kindest regards. Remember me to May. Please write & remember I am always Yours Fraternally Richd. J. HintonRichard J. Hinton accompanying his picture Feb. 1876 — [*Ansd. Feb. 1876*]Remember me to Miss May. Washington March 10 Dear Friend Clara = Excuse paper + haste. You will find herewith something you'll like. Anna sends love + all good wishes. The Belknap matter of course excites deep pain + commiseration also. Socially - the [Grundy's?] are staggered. There is too much of the same sort about, among the society women here, to throw many stones. Mrs B. seems to be generally liked + while the Genl + her keep secluded, they are not lacking in friends. Dont let people think, however, that there is general demoralization here - on the contrary the matter is regarded seriously. People understand it is a matter of personal not political corruption. The Democrats are overdoing. I must Goodbye now So glad to hear you are in [Moritz?] - we all love you - Richard R. J. Hinton March 11 1876 Brings Mrs Hinton's Picture. —Office Evening Post San Francisco, Oct 6th [*[1876]*] My Dear Friend Clara: A paragraph in the Graphic, speaking of your restoration to health, set my heart glad, & reminded me of a determination to write you, often formed & impeded by excess of work. I learn you are at Danville, N. Y., so I write there. You will be surprised athere - has been out abt a mth. She is not well + is very much changed. Physicians advise a residence abroad - If only some one was going to Paris + Switzerland for a couple of years - I can spare now enough to live on modestly + hope for more by & bye. She wd take George with her. Will you write me - there's a dear good friend. Anna joins in the love I send & feel for you. Regards to Miss May. if she with you As always Yours Fraternally Richd J. Hinton the heading of this. I have been here nearly four months. Cheif writing Editor of the Post. The paper is owned by Senator Jones - my friend. I found there was no future for me at W. so I closed with an offer here. I am going to stay, & like every thing so far, very much. The climate, work, etc. agrees with me & I hope for a prosperity I've not had before for a long time. Anna isR.J. Hinton Ansd Oct. 22-76 at San Francisco San Francisco Decr. 1st '76. My Dear Clara: Your kind good note was duly received I have sent papers regularly & hope you will attribute my failure to write before to the hard work I am doing, & not to neglect. I am so glad that you are improved & improving. That goes, mon ami, without telling, you know.Anna was delighted to hear as good tidings. She is not very well herself + dont like Cala very much - There's no society as yet for her. The climate she finds delicious. Would it not be jolly if you came here I think a winter at Santa Barbara would complete your cure, + then there is so much to do for great women like you. My prospects are fair, my health is good. I like my work + people, + am very glad to get away from W. forever. Our boy is well, at College, improving in good health, + doing just as jolly as can be hoped. Anna joins [*R. J. Hinton Ansd New Years 1877*] me in earnest love & hoping soon to hear from you, I am always Your Affectionate Friend Richd J. Hinton subscription publisher could San Francisco, - Augt 19th 77 My Dear Clara: I am not ruled out of your good books wholly, I trust? Perhaps, I deserve to be for not writing before. My excuse - is only this - I am tired every day for I work hard. Forgive me & I promise to be better in the future. Now, I have something to urge on you. Mrs Sheppard wrote me, asking about your reminiscences & my desire that you should write them.You know, Dear Friend, how I have always felt on that subject. I think its a duty to yourself + all who love you so, to prepare them. The suggestion was made that perhaps I could aid by newspaper publication under my own supervision - the papers to be copy[ed] righted + then issued in book form. Anything that I can do, you know how eagerly + gladly I will do. The Post will gladly publish, of course. But here's the rub. It does not - that is - the management - feel able to pay, + it does not ask for such a great favor as your papers would be without it. I will [carely] supervise publication, or mss, and see that as much capital is made as possible. I wll only suggest this: that San Francisco, Cala Jan 27-1878 My Dear Friend Clara Barton: I had almost come to the conclusion that my name + memory had been erased by you, when your noteling with its seasonable greeting came from W__ I had just got back from a fatiguingyou might write say a half dozen salient sketches & let me publish here These could be carefully sent out to different publishers etc & then if you could get [?] 3-5 I think some one of the subscription book publishers at Hartford or Philadelphia to publish a book. From the half dozen you could [?] in - making the third [?nesfield] devoted searching for the lost soldiers - work in Germany & France. A get the Grand Army canvassed etc. To do it in this way would not be as to the newspaper articles a great tax in fact it could be made of service. Think of this [?]. In any [?] count in my aid. Write me dear, how you are &c. Please give my compts to Mrs S. & ask her to excuse my writing. Anna is not very well - she sends love to Clara, who always the warm regard of her friend Richd J. H. when you read the book I'll soon send you. Its been written, besides my daily labors, & two long journeys I've made - some spking also - within the past 8 Mths. I am very glad to know you are so much better Anna sends love. Her health, though not good, is better than it was - will you prepare the autobiographical sketches of which Mrs Shepherd wrote me? My boy grows to be a fine months journey to Arizona, where I am interested in what it is expected will turn out a New Comstock in silver mines. It will be queer for R.J.H to be rich, wont it? But there's a good chance for independence, anyhow. I am working very hard to secure it - as you will seefellow. I am in hopes of a speedy reply and at some length too, Ever, as in lang syne Affectionately yours Richard J. Hinton [*H. 33*] The Red Cross of the International Convention of Geneva. For the relief of suffering by War, Pestilence, Famine and other National Calamities. Office of Clara Barton, American Representative. Dansville, N.Y., 188 The Battle Flags Memorial Day - Broadway - 1880 Riven and ribboned, yet proudly up-borne, Pierced by the bullet and rent by the shell, Shattered and shredded, rifted and torn, Out from the fiercest flames of war-curst hell! Steadily go the Marching columns by, With the Flags revered on the summer sky. Lift them up high! Once they radiant waved, Where the shell screamed and the cannon roared, As the battle-storm so pitiless poured, And Death came sweet while its fury blazed. Salute the Flags! So tattered and rent, - The Flags in whose triumph the Dear God sent, His August Freedom that lifts to the sky And makes all life Holier as they march by! Richard J Hinton[*Col RJ Hinton answered Miss*] sister-friend, the sad-sweet events of these later years. I have suffered much, + I have been crowned too with a wondrous love. Though its bodily presence has left me, the aura is about me; the perfume is alway a present delight. No one, my Friend, can take out of a life the one glory - that of New York, July 23. 1880 My Dear Friend Clara - A month ago this life changed for me - I put my hand out into the darkness - and all was void. I go about the world as usual, but I wonder often why too I'm not buried away. I have had no opportunity of telling you myNew York. July 23. 1880 My Dear Friend Clara - A month ago this life changed for me - I put my hand out into the darkness - and all was void. I go about the world as usual, but I wonder often why too Im not buried away. I have had no opportunity of telling you my sister-friend, the sad-sweet events of these later years. I have suffered much, + I have been crowned too with a wondrous love. Though its bodily presence has left me, the aura is about me; the perfume is alway a present delight. No one, my Friend, can take out of a life the one glory - that of having been supremely loved by a soul grand enough to compass the spirit's realities + to embody the ideal This will remain with me. Yet, Friend, the world is very blank. I am left with a baby boy - lovely as dream - whom it may be difficult to preserve. Its mother was consumptive And As thus is threatened the having been supremely loved by a soul grand enough to compass the spirit's realities + to embody the ideal This will remain with me. Yet, Friend, the world is very blank. I am left with a baby boy - lovely as dream - whom it may be difficut to preserve. Its mother was consumptive and. As thus is threatened the same way. The grand mother - a dear old lady - lives + will take charge of it. For the rest I work - that's all. As to what I am doing - simply, plodding. I have got myself severely in debt in an effort to get out of poverty, by engaging in mining operations I am not broken or despairing - I am simply getting old + know it. I at a comparatively small salary. Have no books on hand. Hope but little + realize that. My Dear - I have no plans. Write to me, please? You are one of those few I carry about. the world with me. I felt you were not as well as you say in reading your letter. Anyway my dear Friend Always beleive in in the sincere affection of your Poor Friend R.J. Hinton[*Ansd Oct. 9. 1880 Hinton*] Evening Mail [?] 7th 1880 My Dear Friend: Are you sick? I had hoped to hear from you in reply to mine of some time since. I am so lonely + weary + shall be glad of a word from you. Ever still as ever Your Friend R.J. Hinton [*Answered Jany. 8. 1881 R. J. Hinton*] [* ?? Press.*] [*[??] Street, [*[??] Jan 4 1880?*] My Dear Clara. Many Happier New Years even than the recent one has I hope been to you. Do you think me unkind in not replying to your good letter last rec'd? At the time I expected to be in Danville, supposing I should have some business in Buffallo. But I was deceived + badly tricked by business rascals. Since, I have been very unfortunate, lost all the little means I had, been quite sick, out of employment + am here seeking for a chance to do better. I see my way out + my courage is not gone. My baby boy - Arthur - is here with its grandmother + George is in NY. I hope to get some appt. Do you wonder why I did not impose my wretchedness on you, Dear, who have so much to bear...I am now trying the Mark Tapley role, but it goes hard to be jolly. Still I am better in health + being at the [foot?], am determined to mount again. I have speculated + lost. But life holds good turns yet + one of the sweetest is the friendship of Clara Barton, Do write me + I'll be [to] good + answer at once. I am very lonely. I wonder often if Clara loves a little Her Affectionate Friend R.J. Hinton Direct to me 601 13th St. N.W. [* Answered 7 Jany 18 1888 R.J. Hinton Dansville N.Y.*] Washington, Jan 14. 1888. My Dear Friend Clara - You are good to me, in thought + wish. Somehow too I feel how much stronger you are. Those two speeches - especially that to the soldiers prove it. Then your letter - the writing even, shows that you are strong. I am glad of it! Dont trouble, Dear, about my losing any more money - I have none to lose. On that relief I can congratulate myself. Somehow your letter makes me feel it necessary for me to make a little statement. I can afford to be feeble even that way, where I never felt strength, in your sight + mind.to prevent some poor investors being robbed. It left me with a load of obligations + the only way to get clear was to sacrifice what was left. Then came sorrow, sickness + death. Ambition slain. Home destroyed. Love quenched by death. I took over the record, + believe on the whole I have not been unwise [+] or improvident + I am sure I've been honest trying this last summer to get up again I have speculated + lost. Thats all - I am pecuniarily broken. Still not defeated. I thought I could get I have never made any special pretention to business ability - though I have been told I have great suggestiveness for others - in that line. The last four years have been tragic beyond telling to me. I have lived a century of unrest. It has been a series of "onsets of despairs". I went to Cala with reasonably high hopes. I made myself felt as few men have done there - in my line. Senator Jones broke + I broke. He was a prize to be picked + I as his friend, was to be tricked. I went into mining matters, + being largely without capital, had to use + be used by others. We all failed, but the worst was a swindler got in power + cleaned us out - The worst was my reputation was at stake _ + I had to sacrifice more than othersWhere you say Ishould be + ,My Friend, I have failed. Now, I am here, working humbly + at the [foot?], to get bread for my baby boy, + to help my [e?lder?] fellow. It is hard work, + somewhat grinding. I know what I can do. But American publishers can steal so much cheaper than they can buy - you know, that there's no room for my work. I know my [vien?], but can't "pursue it" because there's no market. I must work for bread. As to appointments, I would like a foriegn post - but - I cant get one that will be worth taking. I cant steal, + unless I do I cant live abroad on the salary - $1500 or $2000 per year. If I take [bound?] [ate?], I shall spend 4 years away, and come back with four years of life added. Do you know I am 50 years of age? I cant make manymight [fairly?] hope to make some means. I am disposed to try the latter. Tell me what you think? Is not this enough about myself - You are very good to tell me about your work - Is there no way I can be of aid to you - Would it be mistakes. A consulate has no future + but little present in it - It dont pay. At least any one of those I can get - dont. There are two things I may get one of - If the Republicans organize the Senate - I shall probably ask for the appt of Librarian. It's worth $2250 per annum, + it would enable me to do literary work. Again, I may get the Secretaryship of a Territory - either Utah or New Mexico, with my knowledge of mines + mining, Iof any use for me to look over mss. I have time for it + my inclination needs no saying. It is a constant regret that I could not get to Danville. Have you no inclination to run down to W. + see Garfield inaugurated. I should be delighted if you could - Will you print your lectures? Dont fail then to send me copies. I am so glad to know you are work - you have so much to tell so much to recount. My Dear, that I came to you in London as I did has been to me a source of joyful memory - I do not expect you to receive me as then - condition are different, but it is nevertheless a memory so fragrant, as to be redolent now of perfume. Where is Miss May - married etc? Please remember me to her. I would like to see you. Goodnight + good angels gaurd you. Thine Ever Faithfully Richard J. HFlags. Washington, D.C. November 17, 1885. Col. R.J. Hinton, Office of "The Daily Star," Dansville, N.Y. My dear friend: - I have the finest collection of International Flags you ever could find, some 20 in number. They are being put up just now. You will see them if you come to see me. Clara Barton (Some 15 or 16 of these flags were placed in the Worcester Red Cross Chapter House. The missing flags were of silk and I presume may have fallen apart with age. They were not with the collection which she so carefully preserved and I cannot account for the ommission in any other way.) S.F. Riccius. [*1942*] [*32?*] [*Direct 1304 "F" St N.W.*] Reporters Gallery House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., Feb 18, 188[1?]. My Dear Friend Clara: Are you well these chill gray days? They fit well with the moral & [me?tal] mental [attmos] atmosphere of my life. I have been greatly interested + pleased too at the sketch you give of your busy life, In the suggestion made as to publication of lectures, I meant only when you had got throughon [there] her. I dont go into society - dont have any one to make social calls upon - and often find myself hungering for companionship. Affairs mend but slowly but still they do mend. I shall remain here. My baby - Arthur - is quite well, and all things are gray + quiet - Hoping your health is good + always improving, I am Yours Truly + Affectionately R.J. Hinton When are you proposing to begin lecturing again? Next winter, I suppose: You must be sure tolet me know in advance, so that I write some articles + print them "where they will do the most good" I have had a faint hope you might get here for inauguration day. What are the prospects. Iremember your speaking tome in London of Mrs Turner. - is that the lady's name. Ishould be glad to call [*Hinton 34*] I am still I suppose a Red X member. What are the annual dues - Can you send me a pin - New York 44 East 9th St Dec 29-/85 Dear Friend - Bon Comrado - Your letter, unanswered - of a month since, looks at me reprovingly. Well, I can only say - you have not been neglected in my thoughts - heart or memory. I'm glad my last letter gave you such a "safe" feeling - I have the same sensation Been + am working hard - Especially at the Star and am slowly realizing a securer hold. To-night the way was opened also for my especial[l] study - Labor. The Star means to take it - conservatively. Dont think me egotistical, Dear, in telling you all abt myself - I have in addition to office work, a report to finish for the Dept of Agriculture. I also have special work opening to me - + beleive now I am opening a new place. Before your circular came - I had noticed the Red Cross call. Shall also make personal [?] - [a?vent?] it. I am very glad to know that Mlle Antoinette is with you, + that she is kindly earnest abt the photo's. I shall be glad of sketches of red cross apparature - ambulance in service for example - a field hospital - drawing of badge - pin + armlet + flags - also + especial[y?] the residences of Swiss Cheif + [of] view if obtainable of headquarters office at Geneva - Wd it not be good also tohave a little sketch Red X Warehouse at Washington. The picture Mlle is finishing - would be very nice - + very desirable. She can, if not too much trouble make a small [India] Ink sketch or in sepia If sometime she shouldfeel like making me, with your permission, + the price is within my means, Id be delighted to have a copy of this Strausbourg scene. Pray give her my kindest compliments. I have always recalledher with pleasure. + regard her highly, because she is so faithful to my friend. Let me wish you a very very happy New York + many of them - The same to your friend - Please write me soon - dont follow my example +trust me I'll not be dilatory again Forever your Friend R.J. Hinton.Private 62 East [1?1th] St N.Y. June 29th 1887. My Dear Friend Clara: I am about to ask a great favor of you - Beleive me I would not do it if I was not a sudden but very severe strait. There is money due me + sufficient if I could get it, for my needs, + to carry me over till work I am doing + which is accepted - in part at least - is paid for + I am in the gravest danger, just as the labor of my later years promises to react favorably, of losing my [place?] standing ground, of having to send my wife away to her friend, + slipping from the ground I've regained. It is a pressing + very actual need that compells me to ask of you the loan of $25 for from 4 to 6 weeks. I have been promised as much from another friend, who can wait + will take his pay in writing. I need 50 _ + never in my life needed it so much as now. Can you oblige me with what I name. I shall be more than grateful. Your Friend always Richd J. Hinton and am slowly winning my way to a larger place - I hope at any rate + more to the real "Me" - I am doing the work I beleive in. I write editorial for the Labor daily - The Leader dont get paid - but still I do the work. Thanks to my dear wife - who has studied + practiced medicine - I am in good health - you know that I am now in my 57th year - Here then I am + all of it. George is still in thesion - not apology. I have been fighting a savage fight with fortune + am slowly conquering a new place for myself. It was just a year, (at [c?lose? date?] of yours) since I have [since] seen you. My summer was spent at Phila + on the Jersey coast - doing newspaper work. Then - I married again - a brave little lady who was willing to help in the fight. I came back to N.Y. an assistant in the Natl Bureau of Labor, for this city. Here I am still + propose to remain - I have small pay $100 per mth - but I get along. In Sept I went headlong into the Henry George + Labor campaign I am still up to my eyes helping to organize the New Rules Have made hundreds of speeches Pension Bureau. Arthur is now visiting in W_ at Miss S.H. Sheldon 8129th St N.W. He is in fair health for him + I am glad to learn + hear again - of yourself - Publicly I've followed you as I always do - Twice I went over to Brooklyn but could not find or lost the address of your friend. Let me know as to your health + all abt yourself of course remember me to Mademoselle + the Docter I fear it will be impossible for me to get to W_ money is tight Abt the article. I have got my table clear + am ready to go at it - Cant you possibly come to NY soon + let me see you - + have you meet Mrs Hinton [?] She is by birth a Dublin lady, was a widow when we married. has children but nearly all grown + all living in Chicago [Pray] you will like her I know + like her well -- She is a great Earthquake. Photo of the Dr. of course yourself - your medals + decorations - of the Greek flag especially - of the Washn. bldg of the Red X - inside + out - with all the foriegn notabilies - Full list of countries + of Cheifs of Natl Society honorary + actual - Chronological data of each field of service work from outstart. Presumably all this in the Red X papers - You see I've keep itadmirer of our Red Cross leader Send me all the notes, photos &c. &c. & I will go to work at once - Now is the time - Dont be chary of personel - any [ad] aid our friend can give, will be very acceptable. The American work must be made very full & episodical - yellow fever flood - forest fire - the Va Ky [?] region - the Charleston as to details. I am now ready & willing to go on with any biographical & literary work that can reach me. Will you not conclude to have your autobiography or reminiscences put into shape? They ought to be & publishers will readily & gladly take them. Come over, Dear Friend - Let me know at least when you pass thro' I promise to do better. Beleive me always Affectionately & Fraternally yours Regards to all at W Richd J. Hinton62 East 11th St N.Y. June 1 1887. Have I quite lost the confidence + friendship of my friend? My letter remains unanswered. I meant to express my regret for my long silence. + I should be glad to hear from Miss Barton, if she wll please to write to her old friend, R. J. Hinton 62 East 11th N.Y. June 15. 1887 My Dear Friend Clara. I didnt mean to write an "abused" letter. It was rather a bit of fun on my part. I have not known in but a very slight degree what you have been doing your dear good letter is the first intimation of it in any breadth at leastI should have liked very much to have been in it. The next best [best] thing will be to send me on an advance copy of report - also newspaper accts of camp - + if possible pictures of camp hospital +c. I am writing sketches for a newspaper syndicate + can slip in a good article - What do you say? Don't worry with long letters, dear friend. Keep up your strength send postals If you come this way let us know. I am ready now as never before to be active in R.C. work. am really footloose - except of course as to work + ["pot? boilers" Isabella sends you a few lines with regard to all I know I am to you as ever Fraternally Rick.Dear Miss Barton I regret that we did not know of your last great effort in the R.C. work, I have always been an earnest watcher of the movement, and always have read all accounts of its progress with interest but your old friend and myself have been laboring in the cause of Humanity with such a whirling rush that we have hardly taken time to breathe I so missed this opportunity Yours sincerely J. Hinton 62 East 11th St N.Y. June 21./87 My Dear Clara: I have used your report in a sketchy form, + it will go into a considerable number of papers. You will I think like it. I send back the "copy" thinking it may of need to you. The Dr. has sent me nothing. I want all the photo's etc. [to?]to put the same into the larger magazine article. Isabella sends her regards. Hope we shall see you soon - Will you go to Danville this summer. We are expecting to visit Saratoga + Syracuse for a couple of weeks or so in Augt. Affectionately yours R.J.H [*Hinton*] 1021 Eleventh St NW May 15, 1889 My Dear Miss Barton - I have seen both the Atty Genl + [Perry?] The result is conclusive to my mind. the A.G. will do nothing practically accepting the Dist Atty's [?] view, thinks that Miss McB. has been fairly tried + proven guilty - There's nothing then to be done but to see Butler + get him to serve + advise. To that end I will be at yr house by 10 a.m + hope you will be able to go with me. I grow more convinced than ever of her innocence. Mrs. H. was at the jail today - She, [M?ary?], was disheartened + restless. I have learned of good evidence of her character on Mississippi - Hope you have recovered from your fatigue Yours Faithfully R.J. Hinton 1417 Sixth St. N.W. Washington D.C. Jan 5, 1897 My Dear Clara Barton: Have been back from West a few days, + would have been out before but feared your reported sickness + recent Cuban work might make my call inconvenient for you. I want to give my own + Isabels new years greetings + to say that if I can be of use, I shall only be too glad - of course not publicly as I am well aware Im non persona grata Ever Yours Faithfully Richd J. Hinton[*Col. R J. Hinton Jan. 2 " 6 98*] [*34 Hinton*] OUR PERIODICALS: THE VOICE. Weekly Newspaper, 8 pages, $1.50 a year; Cir. over 100,000. THE LITERARY DIGEST. Weekly Magazine, 32 pages, $3 a year; Circulation, 42,000. THE HOMILETIC REVIEW. Monthly Magazine, 96 pages, $3 a year; Circulation, 20.000. THE MISSIONARY REVIEW. Monthly Magazine, 80 pages, $2.50 a year; Cir., 10,500 This House adopts the Orthography of the following Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philological Association and the Philological Society of England:—Change d or ed final to t when so pronounced, except when the e affects a preceding sound. PUBLISHING HOUSE OF FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK 30 LAFAYETTE PLACE. LONDON: 44 FLEET STREET. NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 1899. Dear Sir, We are pleased to be able to announce that the volume of "Poems by Richard Realf," edited by Col. Richard J. Hinton, and for which you subscribed in advance of publication, is now ready for delivery. You agreed to take one copy at $2.50. Kindly be prompt in sending your remittance, immediately upon receipt of which the book will be forwarded to your address. Very truly yours, Funk & Wagnalls Co. P.S. If those who subscribed for one copy could see their way clear to increase their order to two or more, it would materially assist in lightening the expense of bringing out the work, and would be appreciated by the publishers. F. & W. Co. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER FORM. Funk & Wagnalls Co., 30 Lafayette Place, N. Y. City. Gentlemen, Enclosed, herewith, please find ____ for which forward me ___ copies of "Poems by Richard Realf." Name_______________ P.O._________________ Date________________ State________________[*Funk + Wagnalls Co. re book edited by Col. Hinton. Jan. 26-99 Ansd.*] [*Hinton 34*] [*file 14/99*] Shore Road My dear Miss Barton Please present my regrets to Dr Hall for not being present to-day nothing could grieve me more. I had a severe attack of grippe after I visited you and unfortunately let myself be tempted by Modgeska as I wantedto see her rendering of Cleopatra Thursday night I was full of Joy to see you able to be out, so it was not my mortal mind that caused a bad relapse yesterday. I sank near the other shore am better to-day but unable to sit up long. Yours lovingly Isabel B. Hinton January Twenty Eight./99 On Shore Road W. [71st?] St Brooklyn N.Y. Feb 21st 1899 Dear Miss Barton + Freind: Yours of the 18th reached this am. Just a work to express gratification that you are "dug out." Isabel especially has been worried over what she feared - your aloneness and isolation. I got over to Manhattan for the first time yesterday. It was fatiguing under foot but lovely over head + of course I did not suppose the meeting was held. I am at your disposal when you call. + always am Your Faithful Friend Richard J. Hinton Isabel sends her love - [*Isabel Hinton Jan. 28-99*] [*R.J. Hinton Feb. 21. 1899 00*][*33 Hinton*] American National Answered Mar 30 1899 Red Cross. On the Shore Road near 71st Brooklyn N.Y. March 20,/99 My Dear Miss Barton - I was intending to write and say that I had "The Red Cross Volume," when your letter of Sat. was delivered. I am grateful for this letter + the courtesy. I have gone thro the volume carefully + it is - good. It is not the book I still hope to know that you will write. or will finish some day. The present one is just as good as it can be + is all that it cares to be. Interiorily and through all its page. I trace the marvellous story of the Red Cross and of her - I honor as our Cheif thereof, The Voice got ad[ad]vance sheets + its reviewer gave it two cols. I'm not the reviewer, but it was good nevertheless. I have a personal article anent the making of the Book, which they have had for several weeks I expects its publication any issue Mr Keller gave me the book ten days ago - I am glad to learn that the red Cross has got at the Cuba work again. I have said nothing to you for there was no opportunity + I feared it might not be well to do for I tried to express to Mr S. B. or to get at him to do so my sense of the vast hospital+c needs n the island, + I certainly got most vigorously snubbed, not to say insulted for all my pains. Some day, when all soreness has departed from me, I shall beg the forbearance of your sisterly regard to let me make clear to you what insults and indignities, I suffered, not as an accusation agt any one, but at least to show the truth of some [war] words I wrote you - "that I was always - loyal, to you". Late last summer I sent you a letter to Havana, It has recently come back to me you did not get it + I am glad It was a plea personal [coming?] from me by savage suffering + it is best to know that you were never bothered by it. the auxillaries ought all to con-associate with the [true?] Red Cross Society - In the fiercegrasping individuality so characterist'c of all American life Even in beneficence it is a matter of doubt to me if they will. I should like to have gone again to Havana +c, if I could have been of any use. But I should be eager to go to Manila, if it were possible All my latter years I have wanted under your direction to do some one supreme thing for the Red Cross. Above all, just now, Id like to go to Manila. But I suppose I may not be, and I am content when you decide. Isabelle is alway talking + thinking of you - loving you as ever We are fairly well. + am Your Fraternal Freind Richd J. Hinton[*38 Hinton*] Shore Road, Near 71st St Brooklyn, N.Y. April 4, 1899 My Dear Friend Clara Barton - Yours, with Encls. of 30th (yours) + 14th at hand. I was delighted so at all the news they contained So was Isabella, - the more so as she has been all along a beleiver in and seer of a great union of auxillaries under your direction. I hope to be able to be at any meeting + to take a little part in the organization. Do you know that I have always dreamed of such a thing + have seen a building at Washington, with [Musseum?], library + a mthly publication? Do you remember my suggesting once a library of Beneficence - That is publications covering all the educational, prepartive + operative fields into which R.C. extends? I have been "silly" enough to hope I might ere I pass out be editor, writer, Librarian. How gladly would I give up all things but that - for it would be large enough for all the ambitions + energies I still possess - Now, I want something of you. The New Voice took conditionally an article anent C.B. + the book. But they want one cast in a different mold - Isabel will send the other to Chicago. What is wanted, with reference to book also, is the personal Miss B. - her tastes in reading - books and such things she likes - points abt school - A little touch of early home and family life + Some of the intimates - especially artistic scholarly, +c +c. Can you jot me down a a few points? Especially say, if the house wherein you were born, or if not that, where you were "raised", is in existence + They want to send + have a sketch made. How about the school at - Elizabeth, N.J. - was it? Especially they ask for an [il???] autograph of some little poem of your own - can you oblige me? The Marmora poem is familiar now, + something else not known [probably?] is wanted. I have your latest portraitIs there not one with you in connection with a small group of Swiss Red Cross people, or one with yourself at a desk writing? Could it be possible to obtain an interior sketch or photo of the work room at Glen Echo? What is designed is an illustrated [of] Miss Barton at Home. Books, pictures, work. What I propose to do, is to present my dear friend intellectually + socially if she will permit me - I want to take that point o' view that you have recalled - of loss to the guild of letters by a devotion to work of beneficence. If [?] the transportation were mine Id come on + get the [m?] material Isabel is as ever your Lover + Friend, + I am Fraternally Thine Richard J. Hinton I have got to do this article soon. [*33 Hinton*] On Shore Road Near 71st St Brooklyn, New York April 28, 1899 Recd. May 1-99 Ack May 1-99 My Dear Miss Barton: It is vexatious to feel that I am troubling you, but as I made a conditional promise to my paper - The New Voice - of preparing an article, I am obliged to ask if you can favor me with a little data? Several weeks since I wrote you + asked for a reply. Knowing your kinderness in that respect, and as also a previous note from you had suggested a similar or related article by me, I must conclude that the failure to receive a reply is due to non-receipt or personal failure to see the said letter. The article desired is one speaking of Miss Barton personally - something of the character which some years since Isabel wrote for Frank Leslie's monthly. I venture to think that Miss Barton would have confidence in my delicacy of touch, +c.At any rate I shall be [glad] pleased to know if there's serious objection to such an article - from me, or from [Mrs?] Hinton's pen? If there is not, cannot I not learn something of these points? - 1. Is there any possibility of obtaining a sketch or picture of the old Barton homestead - of of the dwelling in which Miss Barton live [as] in [a] her early years? 2d. Would Miss Barton make a few notes of the books and studies that have most influenced her mental life + character? 3d. Could I obtain an autograph copy of a poem - or a couple of verses - something Miss Barton would be willing to have appear as her own - especially if not yet published? Of course if there is objection to such an article as is thus in- indicated, I will go no further. Sincerely hoping your health is as it ought to be, good indeed + with Mrs Hinton warmest wishes + love, I am as ever Faithfully Richd J. Hinton Shore Road, Brooklyn July 2d, 1900 My Dear Miss Barton - Both your notes are at hand. In response to the invitation to be present on the 10th I shall do my best to meet the request + expect to greet you at the Arlington Isabel will not be able to come with me as our little house will be filled with her children + grandchildren from Texas + Ill. Her love, as always, is yours + she regrets greatly her present inability to come. I am hoping myself to have some orders from N.Y. Herald + Boston Transcript for [?] descriptive letters + dispatches. Yours more Faithfully Richd J. Hinton [*33*][*R.J. Hinton July 2 1900*] Sunday 19 - 1900 My Dear Friend I am grateful + therefore glad. The press dispatch said you were to have another in 10 days, to arrange distribution +c of organization. I have gotten my own little affairs straightened + have to be in Washington, to gather materials for a book I am working on. Would it be helpful in any way for me to with [you in?] this work - Wednesday or Thursday. Isabel Love + congratulations Ever Fraternally Rich. [*R.J. Hinton - *] [*ansd April 16 1891*] 176 Decatur St Brooklyn April 4. 1901. My Dear Friend Miss Barton: Isabel worries about you as to health, + we both would like to hear a word from you as to your well being. I am hoping to get on to W. before sailing with Mrs Hintonn for Ireland + Gt B., which we expect to do about the last week in May. The primary purpose is to protect Isabel in some family property matters, but having been able to secure orders for a certain amount of literary work + economic inquiries, which will warrant our doing so - we shall in all stay some four months. Is there any possible way of being of service to Red Cross advantage over there. Will visit Gt. Britian, Belgium, Paris. + I'd like to go to Geneva. Have two books arranged for, + can make Red Cross work + organization the subject of an important portion of one, if I can personally come in contact with anyimportant personages + [fa?ces forces?]. You will understand that I am not seeking introductions solely for personal reasons, but it seems that a strong tide begins to run my way, and that riding on it I may do a lot of good work of a helpful character. I am hopeful of being in Wash'n before leaving + will certainly, I hope, be permitted to see you - Isabel sends her faithful regards + good wishes + I am as Ever Your lifetime Friend Richard J Hinton Glen Echo, Md. April 16, [*1901*] My Dear Colonel: - It was too long ago that I received your letter, not to have answered it until now. But I have been very busy -- is not that such a hackneyed term? I am ashamed to use it and yet I don't know that to put in its place and so you are going out of the country - Why don't you invite me to go with you. But seriously, you will have an enjoyable time I am sure. Tell dear Isabelle that she was one of the last persons that I suspected of going to Canada! but if it serves a purpose, it is all right. I shall hope to see you here before you go, as you made some intimation of it in your letter. There are a good many things I should say to you that I cannot write and yet I very much wish you knew them. Tell Isabelle please that she has no occasion to be troubled about my health. I am well and in my usual strength - with no illness to complain of. I only wish I thought Isabelle was as well as I am. Please give great love to her and allow me to wish you both the pleasantest journey of your lives and believe me as always, Your sincere friend,[*Ansd April 28 1907 - C*] 176 Decatur St Brooklyn April 25, 1901 [*Hinton 33*] Our Dear Friend: A bit of "grippe" has prevented an immediate reply to your kind note of the 16th, which was especially grateful to Isabel. We are however fairly well, barring "colds" + they are departing. I am up to my eyes in work + preparing for more - as for the first time now for five or more years I begin to get [results?] from [my] patient struggles with adverse conditions. I hope however to get to W. for a day + night only. Sometime in the first half of May. Our "en voyage" departure is set for June 5th. We are not going to "Canada" but to Ireland + expect to be absent five mths. It is a delight indeed 2 to learn you are so well and strong, as you write of being. Isabel improves - + I hope to bring her back. - a radiant elderly lady - with it, seems likely, the $7,000 to $10,000 in hand or sure to come. I am a capital result of "dieting" - weigh 145 to 150 lbs, instd of 195 as I was doing 12 mths since. There must be many things to listen too, + so I treasure the delight I am to have. If we can spare the means, I'll bring Isabel also. Shall go to Geneva, some time in October, + am asked to write a sketchy paper for a leading maga, on R.C. persons +c - thereat. Will you be pleased? My [work?] - prospective, but ordered extends 1st to two weekly letters for impt dailies, 2d to six impt magazine articles for three leading such periodicals; several more desired + to be submitted: Three Govt Reports - (2 for Dept of Labor + 1 for B. of Ed'n) as well as a book ordered for next year, on Cooperation as the Modern Factor in Business, Govt, Municipalities, Report + Ameliorations Thats the idea - not as [uter?]. I have two years3 work cut out, and at present there is some $1,600 assured for articles ordered. Our passages (to + fro) is arranged, without direct cost to us. I have before 1/2 the small sum we will take, + think I see where the other 1/2 will come from. That's a pretty good story for a lately broken + almost half dying man of 70 to tell; but I have won a new point for my fulcrum + again I shall move the small world I seek to win + hold. Dont think me egotistical. I beleive you'll be interested + so tell simply things as they are, coming round. We Isabel + I "Rich"[ard] your old old friend love you as ever + ever Yours Richard J HintonHinton [*33*] Glen Echo, Maryland. Feb. 1, 1902. Mrs. Isabel Hinton, 87 Leathwaite Road, Clapham Common, London, England. My beloved and afflicted friend: Your deep draped letter is just with me and through all the tender sorrow that wraps the heart, I try to say a word. I had missed you and waited for your return. There were so many things I wanted to say to our true, great-hearted man and the thought never came to me that the day would come when I could not say them. I know he was always waiting in kindly love to say something of me when I should be gone, but I did not think it ever occurred to him, either, that the time would come when I could not speak to him. He had such a life of mingled pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, ecstacy and depression, that he lived years in one. Measuring him by these, he was a centenarian, but of himself he seemed to me always young, and never in my life was there a moment when I doubted his firm, true friendship for me. How then could it be that his going out of my life should not bring the deep, tender pain that words cannot express? I know how it comes to you, you who could appreciate him, who could live his sorrows and lighten them; who could live his joys and brighten them; and always realize the great soul that under-lay them all. I am glad that, a1 last, Providence was merciful and he went unknowing to that other world, that no pang of parting was his; that he died as he had lived, full of endeavor, and to the last had a loving hand to hold in his own. You will come back to me, dear sister, some day and tell me more, and we will live over together the memories dear to us both. Take good care of the health that is not too strong, and be sure of a double welcome here when you shall come. Lovingly yours, Clara Barton P.S. I thank you for the printed slips, I will preserve them for you, if you have need of them.[*33*] [*Isabel Hinton Ansd from Meriden Sept 26. - to come to Glen Echo -*] 720 Marcy Ave Brooklyn N.Y. Sept-21st-1902 My dear Miss Barton I hope to be in Washington next week on my way to Texas for the winter, and write now to ask if you will be there at that time and where I will find you as I heard you had left Glen Echo I received your dear letter in [*33 Hinton*] [*Ansd Oct*] 720 Marcy Ave Brooklyn New York Septr 30th-1902 My dearly loved Friend Such Surprise and Joy to receive in your own writing your loving welcome to our dear Washington. I am waiting for my pass which I hope will soon come, I will lose no time when it does, I think London and want to thank you in person for the consolation it gave me no one can touch the heart as you can Ever Lovingly Isabel B. Hinton by Saturday I will be with you I trust I shall have the joy of seeing dear Dr Hubbell while he is with you, it will be like the long ago except for the visible form of the one gone before Believe me ever with every [hand?] of love devotedly yours Isabel B. Hinton[*33*] [*ansd - Oct 5 1902 Mrs Hinton Ansd Oct 5/02*] 720 Marcy Ave Brooklyn N.Y. Octr 4th 1902 My dear Miss Barton My pass has not yet arrived, I am disapointed but hope for it by Monday, I hope it will not inconvenience you to have me next week instead of to-day, I am impatient to get to you as I know your time is always so precious. [*33 Mrs Hinton*] 309 Gaston Ave Dallas Texas Octr 23d.1902 My dearly loved Friend Here I am in the land of Sunshine after a very pleasant trip, I arrived Sunday night my Son in Law me me, and drove me to my beautiful new home - The house was a blaze of electricity and I had a very loving welcome from my dear girl and theLove to Dr Hubbell and a large share for yourself - Ever my dearly loved friend Faithfully yours Isabel B. Hinton to those that have eyes and see not. I will not weary you reading more from me to-day and next time will write to Mrs Hines. I hope Mis Atwater continues to improve, with Love to all your dear household of Peace. I am ever one with you in the Unity of spirit and fellowship of Love - Isabel B. Hinton Do not think of writing to me as I would not add to your work for worlds. dear children, I am so glad I came now as they have been looking forward to my coming as an event. I am resting now as I have not been able to do for a long time, all seems like a dream, here I am surrounded with Joy, life and harmony the shadows are in the past. I trust for you dear soul all the Great Thoughts will find expression and that, your own will come to you what a lesson to Humanity you are[*(Baba - Her Arabian horse)*] Glen Echo, Md. November 4th, 1902. My beloved Mrs. Hinton: - I am not disobeying you for I am not answering your letter; it is only that while I sit here in front of Mrs. Hines, with a day or two's mail to answer, I feel that we all want to tell you that we remain in statu quo. Even the weather has not changed: bright, sunny, warm. We are all here; Mrs. Rich, Mrs. Atwater, Miss Adams, Mrs. Hines, the Doctor and [me] I. We only lack your presence to make the household complete. Out of doors remains the same: Baba, dirty and happy, Jersey, consoled for the absence of her baby, and the baby itself perfectly contented with porridge; thus you see we are all in an enviable state of peace. Not the least happiness that we have is the pleasure that awaited you on arrival at your lovely home; it is all very beautiful; you will not forget that you have another home here when you feel like cheering it with your presence. I have just yielded to a demand from the American Journal of New York, (Hurst) to add my mite to the symposium articles on divorce, a subject in which I naturally felt so much at home, that I wrote with great eagerness.Alas! "What fools we mortals be" Please let us hear sometimes, and know that I am, Always your friend, Clara Barton [*33 Hinton*] 309 Gaston Ave Dallas Texas Novr 25th 1902 Dearly Loved Friend As usual you are a Surprise to me, and make me Stir myself, here. I have been practically doing nothing and I received another letter from your own dear self, I am reminded of the poet's verse Love to all the members of your dear household thank you for Saying I might be one of the honored ones to be near you in your atmosphere of Peace & Love yours Lovingly & devotedly Isabel Hintonintruding on infinite, to relate my daily trials, I have had a very busy time of it since I wrote to Mrs. Hines, as Mrs Wakefield's nurse left her while very weak and an extremely worrying baby on which neither "New Thought" or "Old Thought." seems to have any effect. We have got another nurse, and hope for better times. we have had tremendous rains and the streets are almost impassable Mr Wakefield is still away so I am the whole thing here - I dont see what they would Build thee more stately mansions Oh, my soul. As the swift season's roll. Leave thy low vaulted past. Let each new mansion nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. Till thou at last are free; leaving thine out-grown shell By life's unresting sea - "Holmes" You are so vast and great it always seems to me like finitehave done without me. The nights are lovely here - and it is then, I commune with the lonely figure in the upper chamber whose great brain is working problems for the future humanity, dear old Cady Stanton is gone since we met. I have been so occupied I have met few people here have gone no place, Think often of this time last year if I had known it was the last of dear Richard's life how many things I would have asked him to-morrow is his Birth-day where can he be, and is life all a dream? [*Mrs. Hinton*] 309 Gaston Ave Dallas Texas Feby-2nd-1903 Dearly loved Friend What is the matter has Roosevelt lost his head - preparatory to losing the Presidency? he had better take some time and learn his duties in an International organization where men like Garfield, Arthur, HarrisonCleveland. and our beloved McKinley were proud and pleased to act in counsel with your wisdom and knowledge I thought Roosevelt knew the Red Cross was not a little local Washington body run by a few self appointed people but an organization with laws and legislation, made at Geneva and renewed in St Petersburg this Summer where Emperors, kings and Sultans co-operate The man is so obsessed with power he has forgotten he is only one President through a tragedy, not by the drill or selection of his people, but I am surprised what can we do for you - away down here where your name is like a Saviours, in the householdsI had intended writing to you so often but have had so much illness that night or day I was not free I hope to go East in April, tell Mrs Hines to let me know all and what can be done in the matter With truest Love - and righteous indignation for you that through ignorance such annoyance should come upon you I am as ever Lovingly Isabel. Hinton 309 Gaston Ave Dallas Texas March 22nd 1903 My Beloved Friend I need not tell you how my soul is stirred with righteous indignation at the newspaper paragraphs especially to-days that Admiral Wm B. Van Rypen is to be your successor. I for one never have heard of him before, I do not understand or comprehend how any person can possibly thinkYou certainly will "stand still" and not yield to their brutal forceful usurpation and let your friends rally around you with their Love and protection, let those dissatisfied members resign and seek other fields of glory and leave the Red Cross purified and Sanctified to pursue it's course in Peace under the One who has carried it and borne it in travail of usurping the place of "Clara Barton." to serve under her direction ought to be honor enough for any man or woman. I am writing under difficulties having been laid up with Grippe and Sciatic Rheumatism but I am so moved and wrought up I want to do something if I may about this dreadful injustice. I thought of asking Stephen Barton what can be done but I remembered he failed at a critical moment so do not know who to advise withand Sorrow of Soul & Spirit in American "The Red Cross is Clara Barton," and long may it continue so is my prayer Love to all the dear household Ever Lovingly & devotedly Isabel B. Hinton [*25 C - g?*] Mrs Hinton Ansd April 27 1903 309 Gaston Ave Dallas Texas April 24th 1903 Dearly Loved Friend So glad to get a visible message from your own dear hand the women of New York are right they must rally to you it will help them, to but touch the hem of your garment. Strange a night before your letter came, I thought of addressing the "Women of American" calling them to the ranks to stand upright for our greatest Woman, with their lovetheir sympathy and their "human touch" it is a vital principal that is attacked, in your personality the same as the Christ in the lowly Nazarene in whom Pilate could find no fault. It is the Kingdom of force and Phariseeism against "Gentleness and Love". but fear not, I see thee as a figure of Light lifted up and drawing all men unto you. only your Divine Strength could enable you to pass through this cruel gethsemane the meaning of which we poor mortals cannot understand but this we know. He who hath their whole trust in god. Not the universe were it arrayed against him, could change the will of God. He will keep thee in the hollow of his hand, as the apple of his eye. I have been laid low, confined as if in prison quivering with anguish over the wrongs to you helpless shut off Alone. I rejoiced when I read Mr Philips splendid argument and heard you were in New York, it will be only a a little while until the [Man?] of Strenuous life, and large families (to be fed on Photographs) will have to take a back seat, and learn a lesson in humility. I hope to get strength enough to get to New York week after next, when I will see you face to face until then May Angels keep thee well and Strong in Peace and Love Ever yours in heart and Soul devotedly Isabel B. Hinton McPhersons Hotel Sea Gate Coney Island N.Y. Dearest Friend Perhaps you are back from your Western trip which I hope was pleasant and has refreshed and recuperated you for others. I have been whirling like a Dervish, ever since I left you. [*Ansd 1904*] Mr & Mrs Dickerman & her mother spent Sunday with me She told me much of occult interest Love to Dr Hubbell tell him not to work too hard at non essentials I suppose the Browns are gone Lots of love for yourself Ever faithful Isabel B. Hintona paragraph about China having entered the Treaty for establishment of Red Cross there. Every one I meet is on your side cannot understand why you resigned think "Clara Barton" is the "Red Cross" and the "Red Cross", is "Clara Barton" I no longer try to explain as I now know "Clara Barton" as "Authoress and Liberateur" and am alone, this morning for the first time with power to think. I had a very lovely letter from dear Miss Jennings wanting all the Red Cross news and wondering if you had gone to Iowa. I wrote her I thought you had and explained why I had to come away as I did just when I might have been of some use. also I sent herwonderful and most wonderful of women, dearest & truest friend example of all that is great and best in life. Mrs Hines and her sister have been to see me in Mrs Muench's automobile both seem happy at being together. Mr Howe is in Boston My son and his wife are gone to the St Louis Fair. The old Ocean is just the same dear old friend of my child-hood but it is quite chilly here.Glen Echo, Washington, D.C., December 31st, 1902. [* Hinton 33*] My dear Mrs. Hinton: - Even my thanks are poor How can I frame words to represent what I feel when I see the patient, loving labor you have performed for me; let me read in it your sweet patience with the ills of life and the loving strength of your affection for your friends. Let me see in it not only your own affection but the faithful, friendly, brotherly love that was mine through a lifetime and that even now I cannot feel has quite gone away from me. It lingers in my thoughts, revives in my regrets and culminates in the living avenue it finds through your own dear self. So I hold the little treasure, a Christmas link for us all. Whenever I see it it shall count for three, in a union never to be broken. I trust that you are happy in your winter home; one day I have a great deal to tell you; too many other things crowd it out to day, but cannot crowd out my Holiday Greetings, and my thanks. Lovingly and always yours, Clara Barton I know Mrs Hines wishes me to add her best wishes She is well and busy going to N.Y. with me soon That is what I am to tell you of - [Ap. 10, 1906] Dear Mrs. Hinton Please kindly accept the inclosed check as payment in full for my board until the end of this month. and the five Dollar note in payment for the days which M. Wells was here. This together with the twenty paid before leaving for Boston - + the 7.50 paid Alice and incidentals will make a sum of about fifty Dollars. Hoping this will be satisfactory [Sincerely? your?] Clara Barton I should hand the money but I have been unable to get a check cashed since I camehome. I spoke with Dr yesterday but he could not do it in [Georgetown?] and I had to wait - One dollar for the paper I think was said.No. 96356 New York, Washington. Apr 10 1906 Messrs. Brown Brothers & Co. 59 Wall Street Please pay to the order of Isabel M. Hinton Twenty Dollars $20. [*Hitz 33*] 1304 13th St Thursday Even My Dear Clara: I cant get up to "H" Street to night. But will be there very early in the morning for a few minutes. I am attending the [Union?] League + have got two or three Boston newsmen to look after. I am so sorry - because to look in your face & hear your voice, my Dear, is like wine to a wearied man. Ever Thy Friend R.J.H.Collection The Papers of Clara Barton Series and/or Container 71 Shelf/Accession No.