Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association, Commonwealth Building, 11 MT. Vernon Street
Subtitle: Reverend Sir: will you kindly call the attention of your people to the following statement of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Contributors: Hayes, Elihu B.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Medical care; War work; Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Other titles: Reverend Sir: will you kindly call the attention of your people to the following statement of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Notes: Signed: "Elihu B. Hayes, Secretary."--beneath title.

At end of text: Signed: Eben S. Draper, Nathaniel Thayer, J. Malcolm Forbes, J. Montgomery Sears, Dudley L. Pickman, I. T. Burr, Henry Parkman.--Finance Committee.

The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association was a voluntary organization of citizens formed to assist the government during the Spanish-American War. It was a charitable organization meant to care for veterans wounded during the war and to assist in furnishing supplies and relief to the men of the Army and Navy. Although the Volunteer Aid Association was a private organization, it worked closely with the military and naval authorities. In addition to its other work, the Association raised funds privately from donors. It raised funds to outfit a steamship to serve as a floating hospital, supply ship, and transport for the sick and wounded, the "Bay State," which made three trips.