Clara Barton Authentic 2x Signed 8x10 1907 Handwritten Letter BAS Slabbed
This Autographed Dated May 21, 1907 On The National First Aid Association Of America Letterhead 8x10 Handwritten Letter has been Personally Signed by Clara Barton. This item is 100% Authentic, it comes slabbed and authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website.
Addressed to the nurses of the first graduating class of the Clara Barton Hospital of Los Angeles, reading in full: "Nurses of the first gathering class of the Clara Barton Hospital of Los Angeles - It is my privilege to tell you of the great pleasures that comes to me through a dispatch from your honored head, inviting me to send a greeting to the first graduating class of your hospital.
For every reason this is a pleasures to me. First, I would rejoice, if only to welcome you into the ranks of those who have devoted their lives to the cause of humanity, as the trained nurse surely has. Added to this you have taken your instructions from a teacher as dear to me as he can be to you, and you go out to do him honor. Then still more personal, and nearer if possible; you take my own name with you into all your future work; who so appropriately as I could greet you with loving friendship?
I need offer you no words of advice. You go out armed for life's warfare as I never was, and as only those with your training can be. The precious lives entrusted to your call, you will know best of all how to cherish and to save, to bring back to life, happiness and friends, the suffering, the disconsolate and disbarring, and to help to plant the roses of health where the pales of death has spread.
Lives fraught with germs of holy usefulness lie before you. In reaching out to save others, be careful to save yourselves as well, "that your days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God Giveth thee". This is one of your prime duties.
Nurses, we may never meet, but accept this greeting from one who knows you little, yet leaves you well.
Addressed to the nurses of the first graduating class of the Clara Barton Hospital of Los Angeles, reading in full: "Nurses of the first gathering class of the Clara Barton Hospital of Los Angeles - It is my privilege to tell you of the great pleasures that comes to me through a dispatch from your honored head, inviting me to send a greeting to the first graduating class of your hospital.
For every reason this is a pleasures to me. First, I would rejoice, if only to welcome you into the ranks of those who have devoted their lives to the cause of humanity, as the trained nurse surely has. Added to this you have taken your instructions from a teacher as dear to me as he can be to you, and you go out to do him honor. Then still more personal, and nearer if possible; you take my own name with you into all your future work; who so appropriately as I could greet you with loving friendship?
I need offer you no words of advice. You go out armed for life's warfare as I never was, and as only those with your training can be. The precious lives entrusted to your call, you will know best of all how to cherish and to save, to bring back to life, happiness and friends, the suffering, the disconsolate and disbarring, and to help to plant the roses of health where the pales of death has spread.
Lives fraught with germs of holy usefulness lie before you. In reaching out to save others, be careful to save yourselves as well, "that your days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God Giveth thee". This is one of your prime duties.
Nurses, we may never meet, but accept this greeting from one who knows you little, yet leaves you well.
Clara Barton Authentic 2x Signed 8x10 1907 Handwritten Letter BAS Slabbed
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