BARTON CLARA Two items Autograph Letter Signed CB Photograp

Sale 2192 - Lot 51

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

BARTON, CLARA. Two items: Autograph Letter Signed, "C.B." * Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Very Sincerely Yours." The letter, to "My dear Miss Kenrel," asking whether a leaflet for the National First Aid Association could be made into a Christmas card and reporting that she expects to be attending a Worcester Woman's Club meeting. 2 pages, small 8vo, written on the first and fourth pages of a single folded sheet. The photograph, a printed half-tone reproduction of a bust portrait image showing her wearing a hat. Inscribed in the blank margin below the image. Approximately 5x4 inches (image), approximately 7x5 inches overall; encapsulated. (RKM) Oxford, 9 Dec[ember] 1905; Np, nd

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". . . These days are so full for me, or I should run down for a day--just to talk over something. I see Christmas looming up ahead, and wonder if something could be done?
". . . Then I am 'awfully' afraid I have to be at the Worcester Woman's Club on the 13th. I have given the President her choice of what I would do--and I am afraid she will take me up--I said I would read the Thanksgiving paper of Charlton--or I would decline--I could not prepare a new paper, on a new subject.
". . . Is our 'National First-Aid Association' leaflet still in type? I am wondering if I could not have something pretty made of that . . . for a Holiday greeting for a hundred or two of personal friends . . . . I will have to think it out with the good help of Boston."