The story of my childhood
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The story of my childhood - Clara Barton
Clara Barton
The story of my childhood
Published by Good Press, 2022
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PREFACE
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Dear Miss Clara Barton:
Our classes in The History of the United States are studying about you, and we want to know more.
Our teacher says she has seen you. That you live in, or near Washington, District of Columbia, and that, although very busy, she thought you might be willing to receive a short letter from us, and I write to ask you to be so kind as to tell us what you did when you were a little girl like us. All of us want to know. I am almost thirteen.
If you could send us a few words, we should all be very happy. I write for all.
Your little girl friend,
Mary St. Clare,
* * * New York.
October third, nineteen hundred, six.
Miss Clara Barton:
I am studying about you in my History, and what you did in the war, and I thought I would write and ask you what you did afore you did that.
Yours truly,
James C. Hamlin.
***Center, Iowa,
May 24th, 1906.
Dear Children of the Schools:
Your oft-repeated appeals have reached me. They are too many and too earnest to be disregarded; and because of them, and because of my love for you, I have dedicated this little book to you. I have made it small, that you may the more easily read it. I have done it in the hope that it may give you pleasure, and in the wish that, when you shall be women and men, you may each remember, as I do, that you were once a child, full of childish thoughts and action, but of whom it was said, Suffer them to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Faithfully your friend,
CLARA BARTON.
Glen Echo, Maryland,
May twenty-ninth, 1907.
THE STORY OF MY CHILDHOOD.
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BY CLARA BARTON.
It was May—the cherry trees were in bloom. For the first time in three years I had been able to sit for an evening among a company of persons (invalids like myself seeking strength), trying to entertain them with some remembrances of bygone days. I see it still, the broad parlor of that grand old Hillside Home,
the mother and inspiration of all the hundreds of sanitariums and health restoring institutions of the country to-day. I had made my home near it, at the foot of the blossoming orchard.
Down among the trees and twittering robins next morning came one of my listeners; a broad-shouldered, manly looking man, the face so full of benign intelligence that once seen was never to be forgotten. He came in at the open door, merrily shaking off the cherry blossoms like large flakes of early snow, an entire stranger to me until the previous evening. He seated himself and entered into conversation with a familiar ease that bespoke the cultured gentleman. After a few minutes he turned earnestly to me with: Miss Barton, I have an errand in coming to you. I have a request to make.
I said I hoped I should be able to comply. He hesitated, as if thinking how to commence, but at length said: I want you to recall and write the first thing you remember—the first event that made sufficient impression upon you to be remembered.
I waited in silence and he went on:
And then I want you to write the next, and then the next, and so on, until you have written all—everything connected with yourself and your life that you can recall. I want it; we want it; the world wants it, and again I ask you to do it. Can you promise me?
His earnest manner demanded an earnest reply. I could not promise to do it, but would promise to consider it.
This was in the spring of 1876. I have never forgotten the request through all these thirty-one busy years, and have carefully kept the promise to consider it; and to-night take my pencil to describe the first moment of my life that I remember.
By the dates I must have been nearly two and a half years old, for I was born on Christmas day, and now the lilacs were in bloom. It was a rather newly built country house where I had commenced my earthly pilgrimage, and being the youngest by a