Most honored Sir
Very truly
Clara Barton
Dansville, Livingston Co., N.Y.
Sept. 27, 1877
Monsieur Moynier
President
Esteemed Sir:
Your communication of the 19th August, enclosing a letter addressed to the President of the United States, arrived in due time, and my impulse was to write at once assuring you how kind and satisfactory I found them both to be. But at that moment I hoped it would be possible to see the President and present your letter very soon, and thought it better to defer my reply to you until this were accomplished, and I had some results to communicate. But you will perhaps have observed that the President and several members of his Cabinet are making very extensive travels over the country this summer, and since the arrival of your letter he has never been in Washington or acting in his official capacity in any place, long enough for me to reach him. We had expected an extra session of Congress to be convened on the 3rd of October, which would have ensured his presence in Washington, but even this being now uncertain, I feel that I must not longer delay my letter to you, with the assurance that it shall be my pleasure to present your letter to the President at the earliest moment in which I can reach him, and whenever this is done, I shall at once transmit to you the results as well as the nature of the interview.
With kind regards to Dr. Appia and sentiments of the highest esteem for yourself,
I am
Very truly
Clara Barton
Washington, D.C., United States
January 14, 1878
Doctor Louis Appia
Geneva, Switzerland.
My Esteemed Friend: