Clara Barton General Correspondance "I" miscellany[*1715*] [*Sept. 4 1888*] United States Postal Card One cent Nothing but the address to be on this side. Miss Clara Barton 974 T. Street City [*R Aug 27 28 1888 Mrs. Blackford Industrial School*] [*H*] [*Aug. 27 1888*] [*Mrs Blackford Industrial Weekly*] United States Postal Card One cent Nothing but the address to be on this side. Miss Clara Barton 974 T. Street Washington D.C. [*33 g. *] [*Industrial Home School*] Georgetown D. C. Nov 2nd 1888 By direction of the acting President, a special meeting of the Board of Managers of the Industrial Home School, to hear the report of a committee of five, appointed to investigate charges against the Superintendent, will be held on Monday evening Nov 5th at Seven o'clock at the residence of Mr Conger 1321 M Street Yours respectfully Huldah W Blackford Secretary The adjourned meeting of the association will be held at the same place, at the close of the special meeting of the Board of Managers H W B Sec To Miss Clara Barton 974 T. Street CityGEORGETOWN STATION WASHINGTON REC'D SEP 4 4PM 88 2 9.4.88 Hon. Josiah Dent Vice Pres Ind Home School Requests me to call a special meeting of the managers at his residence for Thursday evening Sep 6th at eight o'clock; on account of the loss of our esteemed Treasurer W W Curtis Respectfully Huldah W Blackford Secretary GEORGETOWN STATION WASHINGTON REC'D AUG 25 5 PM 88 5 8.25.88 The regular m m of the managers of the Industrial Home School will be held at my residence 3156. P. St. on Tuesday evening Aug 28th at eight o'clock. Respectfully H W Blackford Secretary [*Ansd - May 1st*] S. L. Lane, President. Joseph Graham, Vice-Pres. & Sec'y. J. R. Kavanagh, Jr., Treas. The International Bibliophile Society Publishers London, Paris and Berlin 135 Fifth Avenue New York April 29, 1903. 2695 Miss Clara Barton N. Y. City. Dear Madam:- We beg to acknowledge receipt of your order given through our representative for one set of the International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts. We wish to thank you for same, and the delivery of this set of books with the portfolio will be made as promptly as possible. We think you are to be congratulated for having secured a set of this testimonial edition at the reduced price of $59.20. In view of the fact that our American Registrar has made a special concession to you on account of our testimonial offer, wehope that you will make an examination of the set at your earliest convenience and send us an expression of your opinion, which we hope to secure within two weeks from date of delivery of the books. We would suggest that you write this testimonial on one side of your business letter head, if posible, as it is our intention to reproduce these letters by photography for the purpose of inserting them in our testimonial album. Thanking you for your patronage, and bespeaking for you many pleasant and profitable moments with this Library, we are, Very truly yours, The International Bibliophile Society ELH L/Hwith a patience and skill that disarm criticism, and inspires only respect - gratitude in terms of unspeakable commendation Persenel- you will recall the offer of payment by monthly installments, ordinarily this might do - although not my method- This plan would require a year by [?] [?]you are no stranger to the harm and dangerous way my earning Through its underlying form is dealing with me It is a question [with] how long I may be able to withstand the attacks, I am doubtful about the wisdom of my making an arrangement of a years advance in any thing - no one can safely conjecture in which country or what world I may be by that time. Would it not be better to let me send you a sheet of my landury for so dull and sell at dinner it would be safer for both I think - GENERAL OFFICERS. MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, President. 633 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Inc., U.S.A. THE COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN, Vice-Pres't at Large, Haddo House, Aberdeen, Scotland. MISS TERESA F. WILSON. Corresponding Secretary. Sandown Cottage, The Bourne, Farnham, Surrey, England. MLLE. CAMILLE VIDART, Recording Secretary. 1 Place du Port, Geneva, Switzerland. FRAULEIN HELENA LANGE, Treasurer, Bornimer Strasse 9, Halensee, bei Berlin, Germany. _________ NATIONAL COUNCILS AFFILIATED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. The National Council of Women of the United States. Formed March, 1888. Federated June, 1893. MRS. MARY WOOD SWIFT, President, 824 Valencia Street, San Francisco, California. The National Council of Women of Canada. Formed October, 1893. Federated July , 1897. MRS. ROBERT THOMSON, President, Mecklenburg Street, St. John, New Brunswick. The National Council of Women of Germany. Formed 1894. Federated July, 1897. FRAU MARIE STRITT, President, Wintergarten Strasse 3, ii, Dresden. The National Council of Women of Sweden. Formed January, 1896. Federated July, 1898. FRU A. HIERTA-RETZIUS, President, 110 Drottninggatan, Stockholm. The National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland. Formed October, 1897. Federated July, 1898. MISS CLIFFORD, President, 2 Hillside Redland Green, Bristol, England. The National Council of Women of Denmark. Formed March, 1899. Federated March, 1899. FROKEN HENNI FORCHAMMER, President, 3 B Ingemann's Vej, Copenhagen. The National Council of Women of New South Wales Formed July, 1896. Federated March, 1899. MISS ROSE SCOTT, President, Sidney. The National Council of Women of Holland. Formed March, 1899. Federated March. 1899. MRS. A. E. VAN DORP-VERDAM, President, 9 Daendelsstraat, The Hague. The National Council of Women of New Zealand. Formed April, 1896. Federated May, 1899. MRS. M. H. SIEVWRIGHT, President, Wellington. The National Council of Women of Tasmania. Formed May, 1899. Federated June, 1899. LADY HAVELOCK, President, Government House, Hobart. The National Council of Women of Switzerland. Formed December, 1899. Federated Sept.,1903. MLLE. HELENE MULINEN, President, 62 Rue de la Justice, Berne. The National Council of Women of Italy. Formed March, 1900. Federated June, 1900. COMTESSA SPALLETTI RASPONI, President, Rome. The National Council of Women of France. Formed August, 1900. Federated July, 1901. MLLE. SARAH MONOD, President, 95 Rue de Reuilly, xii, Paris. The National Council of Argentina. Formed September, 1900. Federated October, 1901. SENORA ALVINA VAN PRAET DE SALAS, President. Buenos Ayres. The National Council of Women of Victoria. Formed November, 1901. Federated August, 1903. LADY CLARKE, President. State Government House, Melbourne. The National Council of Women of Austria. Formed July, 1902. Federated August, 1903. FRAU MARIANNE HAINISCH, President, Rochusgasse 7, iii, Vienna. The National Council of Women of South Australia. Formed September, 1902. Federated August, 1903. LADY WAY, President, Adelaide, South Australia. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Organized 1888 "Do Unto Others As Ye Would That Others Should Do Unto You." Headquarters and President's Office 633 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. U. S. A. March 11, '04 Miss Clara Barton, Washington, D.C. My dear Miss Barton, I am in the throes of the final preparations for Berlin where, of course, you know the Third Quinquennial is to occur. It will occupy the week beginning June 6th, and will be followed by an International Congress under its auspices which will occupy the week beginning June 13th. I do not know to what degree you may have kept pace with the work of the International Council during the five years which will expire on July 4th,1904 the anniversary of the date on which I was elected President. This letter-head however, will indicate to you the growth of the International Council during that time, since nine Councils have been added to the list of those whose representatives convened in London at the Second Quinquennial in 1899. Besides the nine new Councils actually already affiliated there are several more in process of formation two of which will, I hope, be able to enter before June 1st, thus being qualified to sit in the next Quinquennial. The labor involved in this work including the vast amount of propaganda which must be done by correspondence before a single step can be taken toward the actual organization of a Council can hardly be estimated by one who has not been in the office where the work has been carried forward. Moreover, since there is no constitutional provision for a treasury which is at all commensurate with the demands made upon it, it has been left to the President to raise the funds with which this work has been done. Of course, there is but one way in which she has been able to do this, - that is, by securing patrons for the International Council, and in the last five years she has secured thirty, thus bringing into the treasury some $3000.00 The annual fee from each Council within the International Council is $20.00 Beginning withMr W. G. DeLamater 135 Fifth Avenue NY M dear M DeLamater The memory of our pleasant interview is today revived by the advent of a case of Thirty volumes of choice Literary fare which has held me spell bound for the last two hours. The turning of every page brings me face to face with an old, or treasured friend, many whom I have lost sight of since life's early spring time days before the exacting world had bade me to unwillingly lay them away among the jewels to be remembered but not worn. I have clasped hands with them again Books and welcomed them to the home so long and I have after felt so cruelly estranged — To speak of their merits as such, seems to me cold and harsh, for they demand of me the tender touch of the beloved mother or child. Let me rather shower my praises on the faithful guardians who with watchful care have gathered up and preserved these treasures of art and literature THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN (2) nine Councils you can see that the income of the Council was $180.00 a year and has gradually grown up to a point where within this last year it will be $360.00 If you will consider that on an average $600.00 have come into the treasury through patron fees and on an average $200.00 has been the income of the Council itself, you will see that there will have been an average of $800.00 a year with which to do this work, granting that we had dared to spend all of the money in the treasury upon it which in view of the expenses that will necessarily be incident to the Quinquennial, we have not dared to do. It must also be borne in mind that the printing, stationery, secretarial service etc. of the Corresponding Secrtary and of the ,Chairmen of Standing Committees have been paid, so it will be easy to see that the appropriation to the President's office could not be large. Beginning with an appropriation of $500.00 a year for the expenses of the President's office which was to cover all secretarial service, printing, stationery, and postage, the appropriation for this last year to cover the same items is $750.00 I need hardly tell you that from my own private resources I have every year paid out much more than the appropriation made for the work in order to carry it on at all. I say, I need hardly tell you this because you have had experience in conducting local, state and national enterprises, and you know what sums of money are consumed in postage and telegrams within one country under the two cent postage law. When you consider that most of this correspondence has necessarily been foreign, that the smallest letter could not cost less than five cents, and that owing to the rigidity with which the extra weight of a letter is regarded in foreign countries, the postage on individual letters is quite as often ten cents as five; when you consider that the expense of correspondence is sometimes necessarily increased, not by the expense of telegrams (which within the scope of a single country can be reduced to very reasonable prices by sending night messages) but by cable-grams; when you take into account the necessity of having often had communications translated into other languages in order that they might avail anything when the reached their destination, you can readily see that a sum of money that would be paltry for carrying on the office work of a president of any national organization becomes utterly inadequate when considered in connection with any international work requiring so much propaganda by correspondence and the distribution of printed matter where distance has made travel and public speech impossible. I believe in this work, – I believe that through it a leaven has been put into the human heart which is destined to quicken it to an entirely new sense of solidarity, of unity, of interest. The sacrifices which I have been obliged to make to carry on the work at all have been constant and enormous, almost, from a worldly point of view, ruinous. I do not, however, regret any sacrifices which I have made; on the contrary I esteem it a high privilege to have been permitted to do the work and to make the sacrifices which it has involved. It is, however, impossible for me to do now out of my own means what is absolutely necessary to be done in order that I may bring the period of my administration to a valuable and a successful issue. All of the means that I can appropriate to this purpose have been exhausted. The appropriation of $750.00, made for this enormous work of this final year, was necessarily exceeded by theTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN (3) expense of the first half of this year's work. Now, the bulk of the correspondence has been despatched. There will probably be not more than a few hundred letters still to write, but the printing of the year has not been begun. The Memorandum covering this work is to be presented at Berlin. This must be printed in three languages, German, French, and English. The journey to Berlin must be made, and in speaking of what I have sacrificed in Council work, it must be borne in mind that up to date since 1898 I have made four European journeys paying the expenses entirely out of my own pocket, and giving on each occasion some six weeks to four months of constant labor for Council interests which was so exacting that nothing else could be attended to - an absolutely gratuitous service. I believe that the Council as it will be presented at Berlin, and the International Congress which will be held under its auspices, will show to every student of present conditions that all of the work, all of the expenditure are simply justified by even the apparent results; and below the apparent results will be the real results whose issue is in the future. Before this time you have perceived the object and intent of this letter. It is to show you that the International Council needs, not only your personal interest, your sympathy and your moral support, but you practical aid, and to ask you to consider whether or not you can see in this condition an opportunity and a privilege. To do the work that is before me with merely a fair degree of adequacy will still cost from one thousand ($1000) to fifteen hundred ($1500) dollars. I shall do it as well as my own strength, ability, and very limited circumstances permit me to do it, even though I should be left to bear the burden of it entirely alone; but I write you to give you an opportunity to help me bear it. I can only say that in my final Memorandum to be presented at Berlin, the name of every one whose contribution goes into this work together with the contribution (unless I should be particularly requested not to name it) will be published in a list immediately following the list of Patrons on the roster of our International Council workers. Therefore, this open acknowledgment of what will be due to your generosity will be most gratefully made, and far from feeling any sense of humiliation in soliciting and acknowledging your aid, the exhibit of a list of names of men and women who believe in this work and who thus endorse my own effort to carry it on, will increase the honorable pride which I already feel in the noble task too ignobly performed, which it has been the supreme privilege of my life to touch and to attempt to discharge. Hoping for a favorable reply to this letter and awaiting it, I remain, with high esteem and most appreciative regard, Sincerely yours, May Wright Sewall Dictated. President of the International Council of Women,[*Apr 24 03 Signed attached mailing and requesting explanations etc.*] THE BRITISH MUSEUM THE BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, PARIS THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, WASH. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, BERLIN W.J. DE LAMATER, AMERICAN REGISTRAR 165 FIFTH AVENUE The International Bibliophile Society Collectors of Masterpieces of Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts Librarians RICHARD GARNETT, British Museum LEON VALLEE, Bibliotheque Nationale ALOIS BRANDL, German National JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG Library of Congress Editors Harry Thurston Peck Nathan Haskell Dole John Russell Young Julian Hawthorne Frank R. Stockton Caroline Ticknor Art Directors J. Carroll Beckwith, N.A. William A. Coffin, A.N.A. J.G. Brown, N.A. Robert Harris, P.R.C.A. F.K.M. Rehn, A.N.A. H. Bolton Jones, N.A. New York, 4/23/03. Miss Clara Barton, New York City. Dear Madam:- I am instructed by the Board of Editors and Librarians of the International Bibliophile Society to state that a few volumes and portfolios of paintings (American Section) of our latest and most important publication have been reserved for complimentary distribution. Your immediate acceptance will entitle you to ten of these volumes, together with the portfolio of paintings and a complimentary membership in the Society. Above will be given in return for your opinion and influence, as quick recognition of the value of this series in the United States is very much desired. Awaiting your reply I am. Very truly yours, W. J. DeLamater American Registrar. Europe Contains Three Great Libraries The Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris, with 3,000,000 printed books. Its treasures have been accumulating since the fourteenth century. The British Museum, founded almost four hundred years later. The value of its possessions far exceed the scope of mere money to compute. The German National, possessing a million and a half volumes and over twenty-five thousand manuscripts, many of them of priceless value. Including the Library of Congress at Washington these institutions contain practically all the written or printed literature in the world to-day. Through the proficient efforts of our Editorial Board, who had before them all the achievements and the mistakes of their predecessors, and privileges recently granted the society by the governments controlling the greatest literary and art depositories of the world, and through the courtesies and valuable suggestions of the librarians and directors of these great institutions, it became possible to produce our latest publication. The International Library of Masterpieces Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts An epitome of these great libraries Thirty octavo volumes, 400 pages each, 500 illustrations, color plates, rare manuscripts, and a portfolio containing reproductions of famous paintings that have won medals and honors at foreign art exhibitions, touched up in first proof by paint and brush of the artists who painted them, making the most perfect 1. Library of Rare Literature and Manuscripts. Masterpieces, complete, of the world's greatest authors of all ages, nations and languages. 2. History of Literature. Early, mediaeval, post classical and modern literature chronologically arranged. 3. Interpretation of State, Secret and Rare Historic Documents, never before obtainable. 4. Ready Reference Library of Literature. Complete analytical, national, chronological and subject index 5. Art Gallery of the World's Great Paintings. Costing nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The International Bibliophile Society Collectors of Masterpieces of Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts COMPLIMENTARY Certificate of Membership Issued in favor of Clara Barton (NOT TRANSFERABLE) No. 18 Approved by Joseph Graham Secretary Please acknowledge receipt of Certificate by signing and returning the attached Mailing Card LONDON PARIS BERLIN[*ansd March 31- 1901 Package yet arrived will write on its arrival C. B*] [*books U ' G E*] The International Society, PUBLISHERS, 91-93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. R. S. PEALE, PRESIDENT. J. A. HILL, VICE PRESIDENT. W. S. HOFSTRA, SEC'Y, & TREAS. March 27th, 1901. Mrs. Clara Barton, Glen Echo, Md. Dear Madam:- We beg to advise you that on March 21st we forwarded to you in accordance with instructions received from Mr. R. S. Peale, a set of Library of the World's Best Literature which we trust has ere now reached you. In explanation of the delay in this matter permit us to state that Mr. Peale received your letter promptly and issued instructions to us to forward this set of books without delay, but through an oversight on the part of the writer the instructions were mislaid, and, in consequence, a delay of about fifteen days occurred. The writer desires to tender you his sincere apologies and to express the hope that this delay has not inconvenienced you materially. Respectfully yours, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY. Edw. Becker. [*AMERICAN NATIONAL RECEIVED MAY 6 1899 RED CROSS.*] [*AMERICAN NATIONAL ANSWERED MAY ? ? RED ?*] [*Prsnl*] NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION. "A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM" 216 Third St. N.W. Washington, D.C. Charles N. Crittenton, President. Charles S. Morton, Secretary. Franklin B. Waterman, Treasurer. Mrs. Kate W. Barrett, General Superintendent. May 5, 1899. Miss Clara Barton, Washington, D.C. My dear Miss Barton:- As doubtless you have seen by the papers there is a meeting called, in accordance with the request received by me from Mrs. May Wright Sewall Chairman of the American Branch of the International Women's Peace Committee, at 211 Third St. N.W., for four thirty o'clock Saturday afternoon, May 6, to arrange for a meeting to be held in interest of Internaional Peace on the fifteenth of May. Simultaneous meetings are being arranged for in all the cities in the different countries. I hopre that you will certainly be present at this time of arrangements so that you may give us benefit of your advice in regard to this public meeting. If you cannot be present will you kindly send us word that you will be glad to take part. With kindest regards, I am, Faithfully yours, I.H.N., Kate Waller Barrett.find employment, and where I could be useful and efficient? Pardon my giving you the trouble to send me a reply - perhaps some day I can pass the favor on to some other woman who needs consideration or is seeking a life-work that will benefit others. Very Kindly, Mrs N. E. Irwin. The School - the Church - and the W. T. C. U. will give you any information that you may desire concerning me. Fourth St. Jacksonville, Fla. Oct 1890. Miss Clara Barton - Dear Madam - Excuse my troubling a very busy woman this morning. I wonder if in your corps of active workers you have a vacancy. For thirteen years I have found my work, first in training and caring for my two daughters, and in the schoolroom during a part of the year. I have always hoped that when I was not needed in my own immediate home circle, there might come to me some lifeworkthat awaited a womans hand, and for which I was fitted. My experience here during the entire epidemic two years ago, was a peculiar one and entirely unforeseen. One that was not of my own choosing, but to which I seemed shut up, and compelled to make an active one. My throat is tired with the work in a large department in our city grammar school, and I have thought it might be there was some work I could do efficiently in the Red Cross Association. I have lived in the south for years - have many warm friends in nearly all these southern states and might perhaps be fitted to this corner of the world in several ways. I could not be a nurse - Am not fitted for this active and laborious work - but if there is any other place that you think I might do good to the cause by serving, I shall be glad of the work. I am happier to be employed - There seems so much waiting to be done by the women of the present years that I am not contented to be among the idle ones. If there is no place for one among those who work for you - Can you kindly suggest a place where I might [*Ansd Feb. 1. 1901*] [*30*] [*33 Pullman*] LAW OFFICES OF M. S. & I. S. ISAACS AND JULIUS J. FRANK 27 & 29 PINE STREET TELEPHONE JOHN 2173 J. M. I.—S. NEW YORK, Jan. 30th, 1901. Miss Clara Barton, Pres't Red Cross Society, Washington, D. C. Dear Madam:- We are anxious to communicate with Mrs. Lily Pullman (nee Mason) about some property that formerly belonged to her mother, Mrs. Sumner A. Mason. We learn that she has been, and perhaps still is, a nurse or worker connected with the Red Cross Society. We shall deem it a favor if you can send us her address, or give us any information which may lead to the discovery of her parents whereabouts. Very respectfully yours, M. S. & I. S. IsaacsWashington, D.C., Jan.31, 1901 Messrs. M.S.& I.S. Isaacs 27- 29 Pine Street, New York. Borough of Manhattan. Dear Sirs:- Replying to your esteemed favor of January 30 asking information concerning the present whereabouts of Lillie Mason, I would say, that, fortunately, I have no knowledge of her, neither have I had for years. In justice to the Red Cross, and truth as well, it would however be stated that she was never a nurse nor a worker in the Red Cross nor had any legitimate connection with it. The claim of the poor misguided girl, in that regard at least is entirely erroneous. I once tried for her dead mother's sake to help her, but it was worse than useless; I only harmed myself and those about me. I send you under another cover a report of ARMENIA, the closing page of which gives authentic information in regard to the last days and the resting place of Mrs. Mason, which may be of interest to you. I am, gentlemen, Very respectfully yours, [*36 Gleason Kalomina CB etc*] Wash. D.C. July 18/98 Dear Miss Barton: Mr Gleason has requested me to write you and say that the property at "Kalomina" on which you hold a note as collateral security, is about to be sold for taxes and interest. I assure you he is unable to make the necessary payment and the property will be sold and leave him with no stables for his stock and no place to do business, unless you come to the rescue and either advance him the amount, - about $500. - or else write to M. Chas. J. Bell of the Trust Co. and ask him to hold it off for a while. Mr Gleason is very much worried over it and it will be a great favor if it can be put off until he can make arrangementsto pay it. I trust you are safe and well and that we may soon see you home again. All here are well. With best regard I remain Yours with great respt Richard G. Israel #1321 G St. Ck. Ct.