Pages That Mention Clara Barton
Clara Barton to May Wright Sewall
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our "Saint Anthony" had! and now they flourish and spread and live after her. How thankful you are for every hour you labored by her side. They are like a string of pearls about your neck, and the remembering fingers tenderly feel them one by {carat: "one"} for the treasured whole.
I am spending the Autumn and Winter [probably?], in Glen Echo and am very well and "over" busy.
Always glad of a remembrance from you and am Always Affectionately yours Clara Barton
Clara Barton to May Wright Sewall 2
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The toils and successes of the past:
But a truce to this: I must put it all aside, and bracing up, say, in proper, and formal words, - that I cannot go, regret it &c &c, - that "over many" things hold me to my own; but this cannot prevent the heart ache, - and the mental handgrasp and the God bless and prosper every thing you undertake, - one and all, and the dear and tender love I send in my place, nothing can prevent or restrain, -
With this love to all, then,
I Am Always yours