[Robert Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage [birth of Red Cross]] Autograph Letter Signed R Loyd Lindsay to Dr. Sieveking [E.H. Sieveking, distinguished physician] about visit and proposal of Dr Thudichum [German-born physician/biochemist, note below]

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, text very readable but item stained and damaged, with small loss of text (part of heading and half of a name). Dear Dr Sieveking | Dr. Thudichum called at this office yesterday and made a proposal relative to the management of a Hospital in Germany. Dr. Simon requested Dr Thudichum will call him again at 2 O Clock to day. I told him you would be at the officew about that time & that I wished to consulkt [with] you on the subject.See Image. Note: a. The formation of the British Red Cross When war broke out between France and Prussia in July 1870, Colonel Loyd-Lindsay (later Lord Wantage of Lockinge) wrote a letter to The Times. He called for a National Society to be formed in Britain just like in other European nations. (Red Cross website); b. In 1905, the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War was renamed as the British Red Cross; Thudichum, founder of brain chemistry (Wikipedia).