Clara Barton General Correspondence Lewis, Herbert W. Apr. 1899-Oct. 1902Herbert W. Lewis, Superintendent of Charities, D. C. 464 Louisiana Ave. N. W. [Prsul.] Telephone No. 259 OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF CHARITIES for the District of Columbia [39] Washington, April 22d 1899. American National Answered Apr 25 1899 Red Cross Miss Clara Barton Washington D.C. My Dear Miss Barton, Finding your name among others as a members of a committee having in charge an invitation to be sent to the national Conference of Charities and Corrections to hold its meetings in this city in the year 1900. I venture to indulge the hopes that you will attend the the meetings at the conference beginning on the 17th in the city of Cincinnati. May I have the pleasure of recording your acceptance as a member of a party of delegates to go by special card leaving here at such time as will insure arrival at Cincinnati just in easy time to prepare for the opening session on the evening of the 17th.? Very Truly Yours Herbert W. Lewis Supt Charities D.C. Theodore W. Noyes, President Charles J. Bell, 1st Vice-President John Joy Edison, 2D Vice-President George H. Harries, Secretary. James W. Somerville, Treasurer. A. T. Britton, General Counsel. American National Answered April 7 1899 Red Cross Washington Board of Trade, Rooms 17 and 18 Ames Building, 1410-12 G Street, N.W. Washington, D. C., March 17, 1899 Miss Clara Barton Washington, D. C.., Dear Miss: The National Conference of Charities and Corrections, a body of nearly 1500 members, including practically all the men and women in the United States prominent in the field of Charity, Philanthropy and Reform, will hold its annual sessions in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May next. The place for holding the Conference for the year 1900 will be decided on then, and it is the earnest desire of the Washington Board of Trade as a body, and of many of our best citizens as individuals, that a strong effort be made to secure the Conference for this city in 1900. The matter having been assigned to the Board of Trade's Committee on Charities and Corrections, this Committee now desires to associate with itself a number of prominent citizens of the District, who will assist in giving heartiness to the proposed invitation, and in case of success in securing the selection of our city as the place of meeting in 1900, to have charge of the entertainment of the Conference and tomake all social arrangements. The following ladies and gentlemen have been invited to become members of this Committee of Arrangements for the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1900: Rev. W. C. Alexander, Chas. E. Foster, A. M. Lathrop, M. C. Barnard, Mr. Justice Fuller, Chas. Lyman, Mrs. K. B. Barlow, Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Hon. Louis E. McComas, Miss Clara Barton, Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, Mrs. H. D. McLanahan, Capt. L. H. Beach, Lawrence Gardner, Hon. Jas. McMillan, Chas. J. Bell, Dr. W. W. Godding, H. B. F. Macfarlane, Hon. Edw. F. Bingham, Mr. Justice Gray, Rev. Dr. Mackay-Smith, Col. H. F. Blount, Mrs. Justice Gray, Mrs. Chas. Moore, W. J. Boardman, Wm. B. Gurley, F. L. Moore, Jules Boeufve, Hon. Alexa. B. Hagner, Murray G. Motter, Hon. Andrew C. Bradley, Rev. T. S. Hamlin, Dr. C. P. Neill, Mr. Justice Brewer, Mr. Justice Harlan, Rev. S. W. Newman, A. T. Britton, Genl. G. H. Harries, C. F. Nesbit, Mr. Justice Brown, Hon. Jon Hay, Theo W. Noyes, W. W. Burdette, Hon. G. F. Hoar, R. A. Pearson, A. S. Caywood, Col. Archibald Hopkins, Mr. Justice Peckham, Col. Cecil Clay, B. T. Janney, W. B. Powell, Hon. C. C. Cole, Jas. M. Johnston, A. S. Pratt, Hon. Walter S. Cox, Miss Bessie Kibbey, Hon. Redfield Proctor, S. W. Curriden, Chas. King, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Mrs. F. W. Dickens, John B. Larner, Miss Alice Riggs, W. F. Downey, Rev. E. Bradford Leavitt, Hon. J. W. Ross, Jno. Joy Edson, Herbert W. Lewis, Cuno H. Rudolph, J. E. Fitch, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Rt. Rev. H. Y. Satterlee,Mr. Justice Shiraz, Maj. R. Sylvester, Hon. J. B. Wight, W. M. Shuster, Col. Geo. Truesdell, Beriah Wilkins, T. W. Smith, J. B. T. Tupper, Geo. S. Wilson, Genl. Ellis Spear, T. E. Waggaman, J. C. Wilson, Mrs. Sara A. Spencer, B. H. Warner, Nathl. Wilson, W. H. Stoutenburgh, Miss Fannie Whelan, Rev. Fred C. Wines, Genl. Geo. M. Sternberg, Mr. Justice White, Simon Wolf, G. W. F. Swartzell, Dr. B. L. Whitman, S. W. Woodward. Your co-operation is earnestly desired! May we therefore ask that you kindly notify the Committee's Secretary of your acceptance and favor us with your presence at a meeting to be held at the Board of Trade Rooms on Monday, March 27th, at 4 P. M., when the details will be fully explained. Very respectfully, B. T. JANNEY, Chairman Committee on Charities and Corrections. CUNO H. RUDOLPH, Secretary [Herbert Louis Ansd- Oct. 15 1902] "It is wiser and less expensive to save children than to punish criminals" Boys and Girls Aid Society of California Incorporated 1874 H.W. Lewis, Superintendent TRUSTEES: Geo. C. Perkins, - - - - President S. C. Bigelow, - - - Vice-President C.A. Westenberg - - - - Secretary D.C. Bates, - - - - - Treasurer A. Anspacher L. H. Bonestell J.W. Ellsworth Chas. A Murdock L.S. Sherman - Home: Corner Baker and Grove Streets Telephone Park 214 [*25 B 1902 C.B. ?.61*] San Francisco, Sept 29th 1902 Miss Clara Barton Pres American National Red Cross Glen Echo Md. My Dear Miss Barton I am to address the Cali. State Red Cross at its annual meeting on Oct 21st Can I be of service to the national organization or to yourself personally on that occasion? If so, will you please indicate to me the line? Will you have the kindness to send me one copy of the report of the work in Asia Minor in 1895-6 and one of the work in and about Galveston With great respect and kindest regard I beg to remain Very Truly Yours Herbert W LewisAnsd. Glen Echo, Md., October 15, 1902. Mr. W.H. Lewis, Cor. Baker and Grove Sts., San Frisco, California. My dear Mr. Lewis:- I am rejoiced to hear from you and find that you are in your own congenial work in the congenial clime of California. It is like your kindly heart to take the trouble to write me, to learn if you can serve me; it is not every friend that thinks of that. You can serve by assuring the California Red Cross that their work has had the highest appreciation from me that was possible: I fully realized the burdens they had to bear and the capability with which they have sustained them. I send you inclosed an extract read from my Report, read before the International Conference at St. Petersburgh, during its recent session. In the Report I gave the credit of the work of the American Red Cross during the year, entirely to California. Its labors during that time I counted as nothing, but of the faithful women of the California coast I felt that I could not say enough; and it was with the deepest gratification that I placed in that report the-2- name of the faithful and capable President of the California Red Cross, Mrs. Harrington, and made it conspicuous by leaving it to stand alone. I placed no other name alongside it, and the tribute which I was able to give lives to day upon the official shelves of every Red Cross Nation. If you could bring these facts clearly before the Annual Meeting, by begging them to listen to the extract which I inclose, you will confer a favor upon me, dear Mr. Lewis, never to be forgotten. Again thanking you, I remain, Fraternally yours, Clara Barton [*Lewis Ansd Oct 28-1902*] "It is wiser and less expensive to save children than to punish criminals" BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA Incorporated 1874 H. W. LEWIS, Superintendent TRUSTEES: GEO. C. PERKINS,. . . . PRESIDENT S. C. BIGELOW, . . . VICE-PRESIDENT C. A. WESTENBERG, . . . . SECRETARY D. C. BATES, . . . . . TREASURER A. ANSPACHER L.H. BONESTELL J.W. ELLSWORTH. CHAS. A. MURDOCK L. S. SHERMAN HOME: CORNER BAKER AND GROVE STREETS Telephone Park 214 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21st, 1902. My Dear Miss Barton Your letter containing the extract from your report to the international Red Cross and the pamphlets which you sent me were received, the former in time to be made a part of what I was planning to say today, and the latter in time to furnish me the particular items of interest to which I wished to allude. The meeting of the Cal. Society of the Red Cross was not largely attended but such delegates from auxiliary societies as were present gave encouraging reports of the conditions outside of San Francisco. Mrs. Harrington was present and presided A good many were kind enough to express more or less enthusiastic approval of my account of the work on the Galveston field. I kept away from any recital of the details of the distribution of material whichand dwelt more upon the condition of bewilderment and confusion which prevailed in Galveston when we arrived, and the coherence, organizing power and moral encouragement which we carried into the midst of it. At the close I spoke of you, and your personal share in the work as I believed you would approve and closed with saying that in a recent letter to me you had expressed yourself concerning the Cal. Society as followed. I then read part of your letter to me, which brought me to the point of presenting the extract from your report at the international conference. There were several representatives of the press present and I shall do myself the pleasure of sending you one or more of the reports of the meeting. A gentleman handed me his card and begged to be remembered to you. I was later informed that both he and his wife were special friends of long standing and I then sought and obtained an introduction to two most charming persons. The card bears the name of John Gill Lemmon. Hoping that all this will meet your approval, and with renewed assurances of my affectionate regard Fraternally Yours Herbert M. LewisGlen Echo, Md., October 28th, 1902. Mr. Herbert W. Lewis/ Cor. Baker and Grove Sts., San Zransisco, Cal. My dear Mr. Lewis:- Your letter of the 20th inst. in just at hand and I cannot refrain from writing at once and thanking you for the excellent part you have taken in the Red Cross work in California, where I often feel that so far as the National is concerned, the laborers are altogether too few. Again I thank you for the presentation made in the meeting. I am not a little amused that you should have so innocently run upon my old time friends who have classed themselves as brother and sister of mine for many years. In meeting and knowing the Lemons you have met and known some of the best of California: True, Faithful, intelligent and learned people. When you shall visit them they will t tell you more of trees than you have ever known before and of flowers more than you have ever dreamed of. They will stand in History among the leading Botanists of America, and by no means unknown in the whole botanic world. I often hear excellent reports from Texas, and it seems to -2- as if we won the hearts of the whol great state. I never forget the g good part you took in it, and am very anxious if opportunity offers to return your kindly favors. I should be very happy to hear from youat any time. With best wishes and affectionate regard, I am, As always yours,