[Illustration: JEAN HENRI DUNANT]
_The_ ORIGIN _of_
_the_ RED CROSS
"_Un Souvenir
de Solferino_"
BY
HENRI DUNANT
Translated from the French by
MRS. DAVID H. WRIGHT,
of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American
Red Cross, Independence Hall.
Philadelphia, Pa.
1911
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Copyright, 1911,
By MRS. DAVID H. WRIGHT.
AMERICAN RED CROSS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., November 9, 1910.
Mrs. David H. Wright,
Philadelphia, Pa.
DEAR MRS. WRIGHT:
I appreciate and thank you for your courtesy in dedicating to me, as
President of the American Red Cross, this recent translation of Henri
Dunant's "Un Souvenir de Solferino."
Whoever calls attention of the people to the sufferings and misery
caused by war so that men realizing its results become loath to
undertake it, performs a public service.
[Illustration: handwritten signature of William Howard Taft]
_President American Red Cross._
_EDITOR'S NOTE_
_So far as is known, this book of such far-reaching influence has never
before been translated or published in English._