* * * 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.”