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Important autograph letter and report signed four times by Clara Barton, regarding her work in identifying the Missing Soldiers of the Civil War, which Barton led alongside Andersonville POW Dorence Atwater, who kept the ”death list” that instigated the project. In this letter and report to Barton’s ally General Benjamin Butler, Barton not only comments upon Atwater’s infamous imprisonment, but alleges that a systematic campaign to undermine her had been hatched during the Andersonville expedition, even to the point of sending forged Letters to the Editor in Barton’s name, so that she would ”appear odious and ridiculous”. Sold for $5,000.
Emotional Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed, Regarding Missing Soldiers — “…This Officer with his undeserved rank, his manners, his tricks, his falsehoods, his forgeries and his crimes…”
Very emotional autograph letter signed by Clara Barton, who here appeals to General Benjamin Butler regarding the formal recognition of the Office of Missing Soldiers, which the famous battlefield nurse created and led; letter also includes Butler’s handwritten and initialed response. Beautifully penned letter runs four pages on card-style stationery measuring 8″ x 10″. Separation starting along folds, otherwise in near fine condition. With full transcription. An important letter in both the life of Clara Barton and the history of the Missing Persons project of the Civil War. Sold for $2,000.
Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed From 1861 — Barton Defends Her Brother, Later Imprisoned as a Confederate Spy — “…he is noble souled, and generous to a fault, and at heart a patriot…”
Clara Barton autograph letter signed during the Civil War, in which the famous battlefield nurse implores General Benjamin Butler to watch over her brother Stephen Barton, then living in North Carolina. Four page letter on card-style stationery measures 5.25″ x 8.25″. Folds and chips along edges, but penmanship is excellent and very legible. Overall in very good condition. Sold for $1,229.
Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed to General Benjamin Butler, Regarding Her Brother, Imprisoned as a Confederate Spy — “…unless my brother’s soul is dead, and his whole nature changed…”
Exceptional Clara Barton autograph letter signed during the Civil War, in which the famous battlefield nurse thanks General Benjamin Butler for allowing her brother Stephen Barton to “come to her” after crossing into the General’s lines, despite Stephen’s status as Confederate spy. At the start of the Civil War, Stephen Barton had been living in North Carolina where he owned a lumber mill, and at some point during the war had been imprisoned by the Union Army as a spy, although Clara cautiously believes his is innocent, as she describes in this very poignant letter. Accompanied by full transcription, letter is datelined 2:00 am on 16 October 1864 at “Flying Hospital” near Point of Rocks, Virginia, where Barton was appointed head of nursing by General Butler. It was at this hospital that she cared for her dying brother Stephen, until he passed away in March 1865. Letter reads in full, “Major Gen’l B.F. Butler / My kind and honored General – A few hours ago, I left your tent, to seek sleep and rest in my own; but the ‘wee small hours’ have crept on, and no slumber after all these nights of waking comes to my weary eyes. And yet, I am so happy. – ‘He can come to you,’ still rings on my ear as sweetly and kindly as it first fell from your lips. It was so much more than I had even hoped for, that my breath grew thick and the blessing that welled up in my heart, struggled and clogged in my throat, and scarce left me utterance. It was so much to know, that twenty-four little hours would restore to my embrace, my old worn, exiled brother – the brother I had loved with a baby love, who had borne me playfully about the fields on his strong youthful shoulders, and carried me tenderly in his arms through the tall drifts, to school. The strange winds of eight long years have tossed his silvery locks (now white and thin) since I have looked upon him; and four years of angry war, and misguided vile have swept his lonely home. Every night, his name has been woven in my prayers – every day in my thoughts. I have so prayed that he might come into your lines, and now, after all, to know that he is here, and that you will see and judge him for yourself, and permit him to come to me, is more than a sensitive nature like mine shall calmly endure. I have no further boon [blessing] to crave. If, upon investigation you find that my brother’s course of action has been such that you cannot overlook it, and receive him to your confidence as a loyal man, I shall submit to your decision without a murmur- it shall not move in me any spirit of discontent. I will not therefor be less sacrificing, loyal, or faithful, but shall work on till the end, cheerfully, loyally, hopefully. But, if on the other hand, it prove that he can be trusted, if you can receive him back as a Citizen of the United States, standing once more under the Old Flag he loved so well, God only knows the richness and fullness of joy it will bring to my heart. And unless my brother’s soul is dead, and his whole nature changed, one friendly touch of your hand, one encouraging word from you, and he will water the ground at your feet with his tears of loyal, grateful joy. Pardon this trespass, General for your kindness has made me scarce myself – But, so gratefully / Yours / Clara Barton”. Letter on card-style stationery measures 5″ x 8″. Separation starting along folds and minor soiling on verso, where docketing appears, which reads in part, “Barton, Clara Thanks the Genl for releasing her brother”. Overall very good plus condition, with elegant, legible handwriting. Sold for $1,200.
Clara Barton Autograph Letter Signed to Dr. Harriet N. Austin, a Pioneer in Women’s Health — “…he is…declared to be, ‘incurable’, all of which I do not take at its full value…”
Lengthy autograph letter signed by Clara Barton, spanning eight pages, to Dr. Harriet N. Austin, an early American female doctor who pioneered the field of women’s health. Austin ran a sanitarium in Dansville, New York called Our Home on the Hillside, where Barton recuperated after the Civil War. Eight page letter on Barton’s own letterhead from “The Red Cross of the International Convention of Geneva”. Card-style bifolium stationery measures 5″ x 8″ as folded. Mounting remnants and folds, overall in very good plus condition. With full transcription. Sold for $986.
Interesting Clara Barton typed letter signed, from her home in Glen Echo, Maryland on 17 February 1910 to General Roscoe G. Wells, her assistant and commander of the ambulance corps for the National First Aid Society. Four page letter on separate sheets measures 8” x 10.5”. Signed ”Clara Barton / Priv.” at the conclusion. Folds and light creasing, otherwise near fine. Sold for $750.
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