This is a kind of institutional memoir and document of advocacy written by Clara Barton, found of the American Red Cross, and published in 1904. The book begins with Clara Barton’s responding to a query by a young letter writer (whether real or emblematic) and so begins a nonfiction account that is similar to Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas in its format and design. The letter writer asks Clara Barton not to simply tell the history of the Red Cross or explain its motivating rationale, but to tells […]