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To: Eleanor Howard-Smith, Secretary Soldiers' Aid Society, Washington Heights,
N.Y.
From: Laura d'Oremieulx, Commissioner on Supplies, Woman's Central Relief
Association, Cooper Union, N. Y.
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U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION
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WOMAN'S CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF
10 Cooper Union, Third Avenue

NEW YORK,...............................................................1862,

Mrs Smith
  Dear Madam

    I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt on March 1st of one
barrel of Hospital Supplies as per your favor of Tues. Mar 1st.  The articles
will be devoted, as intended, to the relief of the sick and wounded Soldiers
and Sailors of the U. S. forces,--in whose behalf, and that of the Commission,
I most cordially thank the donors.

                                                     Very respectfully,
                                                     Laura d'Oremieulx
                                                     Mem. Executive Com.


Miss Ellen Collins }
Mrs. T. D'Oremieulx}
Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler}                Com. on Correspondence and Supplies
Sam'l W. Bridgham}
W.  H. Draper. M. D. }


    Please mark every package with the name of Society, Town and state from
which it is sent, and forward duplicate list by mail.


Dear Madam
      Your excellent donations of flannels and hose, came duly to hand, and
we gratefully acknowledge them more fully than the limits of a printed
circular will permit.  In sending these you have done much to meet our most
pressing wants, which are-bedding, sheets and quilts, underclothing and socks.
 We have just now a plenty of towels, handkerchiefs, pillows, etc., but since
the great Fairs monopolize so much attention our stores of the greatest staple
comforts, are getting much reduced, while the battles now taking place are a
constant draft upon us.

      In this connection it may be cheering to those who helped to prepare the
supplies for which we are indebted to you, to know one of the good results of
what we have done and are doing.

      A letter from one of the Sanitary Agents who was at the front during the
recent terrible engagement in Florida, (from which we have heavy lists of
killed and wounded of  our brave New Yorkers) is just received and contains the
following paragraph-

      "There was not ten dollars worth of anything but medicines, in the way
of hospital belongings, to be had of the Medical Department, and the U. S.
Sanitary Commission had the honor to furnish all the supplies that were used
in taking care of over 700 men, besides transporting them back to Jacksonville."

      Is not this encouragement?  If you can help us to any old linen or cotton,
not bandages, but pieces of all descriptions for use in the hospitals, we shall
be grateful, for they are in great demand and as nearly every body's stores of
such articles are exhausted, we cannot meet the demand.

                                                 Yours very cordially
                                                     Laura D'Oremieulx
                                                         Com on Supplies