Manuscript/Mixed Material Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. 1870 and Mar. and Dec. 1872)
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Image 1 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … CLARA BARTON DIARIES AND JOURNALS Jan.-Feb. 1870 (Includes letter copies, Jan.-Apr. 1870; Mar. and Dec., 1972)
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 2 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Journal and Letterbook A 1870-72 Corsica-Germany No. 9479
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 3 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Ajaccio Corsica January 1st 1870. About the middle of August 1869 I left New York in company with Sister Sally on the Steamship Caledonia bound to Glasgow. After a couple of days…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 4 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … 2. I have also noted what I believe every other traveler does, the awful sea, and awful boats, between Dover and Callais, rode all night and at 6 oclock of the 16th…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 5 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … deck, desired to see me. I bade him tell the gentleman that "he was mistaken in the person. I had no acquaintance in Ajaccio." Pretty soon he returned to say that the…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 6 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … All but the men appeared to do, or carry something, as they walked or ran. A portion of the children tossed gay and party colored India rubber balls of sizes varying from…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 7 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … beside the door, while similar pots of cactus ranged symetricly along the granite wall which fronted the walk - before entering my escort showed me about his grounds, consisting of aereal views…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 8 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … The sheets were linen, not ironed after washing, and if even thoroughly dried had gathered dampness again till they were little better than those I had seen coming out of the creek…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 9 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … with fine yard and flowers, to which a placarded board forbade your entrance without permission from the Commandat. My tour of inspection being merely personal, by no means official in its character,…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 10 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … I could eat nothing. There was no recourse but to go to bed, and indeed it was all I was fit to do. So I again crept into my blankets and this…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 11 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Miss Campbell is a Scotch lady. probably of the Archibald Campbells of Scotland. who has chosen to adopt the interests of Corsica. and holds them very closely. It is doubtless mainly through…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 12 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … last to make the first call, and the English here having adopted it. I saw that in order to keep from making myself singular I must call on the guests of the…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 13 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … I was not certain how I could get on with them - and in the course of the conversation, a French woman who interpreted for them raised the price from 30 to…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 14 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … crimson cushioned lounge faced the fireplace on the opposite side - two green covered arm chairs, and for [flag] rest straight-back common chairs completed the furniture, unless I might mention two huge…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 15 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … other person would have found themselves with at least one broken bone, but my marvelously good joints which have served and saved me so often through such perils, were once more true…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 16 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … the doings day by day, one so like another, with so many shadows and few lights. Suffice it to say that I provided myself as well as I could with the few…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 17 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … forgot my discomforts, five days of this I had, when my poor eyes refused another hours duty, grew red & inflamed and for weeks I could not read a page, and often…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 18 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Madam Alexander, Confection. A widow of a Polish exile. I was disheartened, thought it did not matter much, and at Madam's recommendation enjoyed a single chamber at 25 francs a month. All…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 19 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … literally covered with paltry ornaments all of which I would have exchanged for an easy chair, a sofa or lounge of which I had neither, but I had, ornamenting the preserved walls…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 20 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … the Prefect of Corsica, a word of their filling up may not be uninteresting in the future. According to the Corsican, and it may be the French style, the foot of the…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 21 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … cunning little mandarin filled every spare nook & corner, from this we were conducted to a yard to see a Moufflon, a wild sheep, which greeted us with its pretty agate eyes,…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 22 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … modesty which had kept them in ignorance of me until that day. - The succeeding days were spent in looking up reminiscences of the Bonaparts, we visited the old family mansion (which…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 23 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … and a small house fronting into this opening is occupied by the woman who keeps the key and shows up the Bonapart mansion to strangers. I had away with me a couple…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 24 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … told us what we had probably read before and forgotten, that he left Corsica at the age of 39 only to seek medical aid at Montpelier France, where his malady overpowered him…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 25 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … & standing upon a side hill nestled down among the craigs the "look down" upon its dusty olive green as you approach it is very bewitching. After the death of Charles Cardinal…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 26 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … house little curlings of tile had been made, and violets and geraneums set. I was glad to see this and with a look through the basement of the old house the only…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 27 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … them there. I could not describe the dinner, but it was excellent, and the company social to agreeable - after an hour or two at table we returned to the drawing rooms,…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 28 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Monday 14 February in the rain I set out on foot for my new residence, having first paid my miserable landlady her 25 francs for the entire month. Twenty times that amound…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 29 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … called at Hotel France to see Miss Campbell, who was at breakfast, and we left our cards - this call was returned next day but I was in bed & besides my…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 30 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … is an artist, Mrs. W. was from Edinburgh, bright & cheerful as a kitten, they occupy a suite of rooms on the same floor with me, and we are the only occupants…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 31 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Ajaccio, Island of Corsica January 3rd, 1876 Gen’l Whitaker My Esteemed friend, perhaps the date which commences this letter, and the name which will finish it will both be a suprise to…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 32 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … flowers, rocks and sunshine, I still wait, and watch and listen for the roll of the drums, the tossing of the banners, and the marching steps of my comrades beyond the sea.…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 33 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … and little to go that great journey alone, and you wish you could have kept her a few years, till she was stronger or you perhaps could have gone to prepare the…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 34 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … That my voyage had all that a sea voyage ever has, that is so unfortunate as to escape adventure, and can boast of neither a gale, nor an ice-berg, nor a leak,…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 35 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Here was a sister, loving and intelligent, and a brother bright and strong, to take me by the hand, and tell me I was one with them, and how long they had…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 36 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … village - in our new Western States it would long ago have passed for a city - The residence of the Prefect of the Iland who represents the Emperor of France is…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 37 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … and more I know, that whatever he gives you to do in the future, you will, as you have in the past, do it well. For me I feel the full force…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 38 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … and vouches for the good faith and standing of Her Majesty's loyal subjects, but as I suspect he would hardly vouch for me, whatever he might feel inclined to do for my…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 39 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … Legation des Etats Unis d'Amerique pres la Confederation Suisse Berne le 25 Janvier 1870 Monsieur le Prefect J'ai l'honeur de vous adresser ces lignes pour introduire aupres de vous Mademoiselle Clara Barton…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
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Image 40 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. … [Letter in French addressed to Monsieur le Prefet, dated 25 January 1870, signed Chas H Upton US Consul] Seed Time and Harvest - bu Ada Cambridge Fret not thyself so sorely, heart…
- Contributor: Barton, Clara
- Date: 1870-01
About this Item
Title
- Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1870, Jan.-Feb. (includes copies of letters Jan.-Apr. 1870 and Mar. and Dec. 1872)
Names
- Barton, Clara, 1821-1912.
Created / Published
- 1870
Headings
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care
- - Andersonville Prison
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
- - Women's rights--United States
- - Social problems--United States
- - Barton family--Correspondence
- - Hubbell family. Julian B. Hubbell family papers
- - American National Red Cross
- - Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. Office of Correspondence
- - International Committee of the Red Cross
- - National First Aid Association of America
- - Geneva Convention (1864 August 22)
- - Ambulance service
- - Disaster relief
- - First aid in illness and injury
- - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Civilian relief
- - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Medical care
- - Humanitarianism
- - Military nursing
- - Prisoners of war--Georgia--Andersonville
- - Spanish-American War, 1898--Civilian relief
- - Temperance--United States
- - War relief
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief
- - Manuscripts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Diaries and Journals, 1849-1911
- MSS11973, box: 3; Microfilm reel: 2
Source Collection
- Clara Barton papers, 1805-1958
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- Manuscript Division
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- online text
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Subject
- Ambulance Service
- American National Red Cross
- Andersonville
- Andersonville Prison
- Barton Family
- Civil War
- Civilian Relief
- Correspondence
- Disaster Relief
- First Aid in Illness and Injury
- Franco-Prussian War
- Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. Office of Correspondence
- Geneva Convention (1864 August 22)
- Georgia
- History
- Hubbell Family. Julian B. Hubbell Family Papers
- Humanitarianism
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Manuscripts
- Medical Care
- Military Nursing
- National First Aid Association of America
- Prisoners and Prisons
- Prisoners of War
- Social Problems
- Spanish-American War
- Suffrage
- Temperance
- United States
- War Relief
- Women
- Women's Rights