Letter from Clara Barton to May Wright Sewall.

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Letter from Clara Barton to May Wright Sewall.

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Title: Letter from Clara Barton to May Wright Sewall.
Description: Don't take for granted anything which I may or may not do - but tell me plainly what I ought to do. Sewall has apparently approached Miss Barton to propose that the Red Cross become an ally of the National Council of Women. Barton promises to let her know and goes on to comment on various conventions. Clara Barton was nicknamed "the angel of the battlefield" for her work helping wounded soldiers during the Civil War. She then spent the following four years assisting with identification of prisoners who died at Andersonville. In 1881, Miss Barton founded the American Red Cross.
Correspondent: Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
Date: 1888-07-06; 1888
Time period: 1880s (1880-1889); 19th century;
Subject: Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920; National Council of Women of the United States; American Red Cross
Genre: Correspondence;
Theme: Women; Education;
Collection: May Wright Sewall Papers
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Copyright information: This item is in the public domain.
Physical repository: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Indianapolis Public Library
Repository collection name: May Wright Sewall letters
Digital publisher: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Date digitized: 2005
Repository: The Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections
Source: From: May Wright Sewall Papers
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