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Oct 29" Dear Johnny - I am sorry you have not your box. I wrote to Romaine about it some days ago. she said she would enquire about - and I will write again in the days of dishonesty and roguery it is necessary to see that one gets own's own this war has unmercifully developed the intense corruption of human nature - is it not humiliating to think of what a stock we come - we have been very much provoked to hear how our delicacies and comforts for the sick soldiers have been appropriated to the use of the attendants and surgeons of hospitals - word has reached us too (we hope it may prove fake0 that the socks we knit ourselves have been sold by the quartermaster for money! only think of working so hard to enrich such a unclear - but alas so it is in this world - the innocent suffer for the guilty so you are rather discouraged about the war - I am just beginning to hope - if the edict for emancipation have taken in unclear