New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-27
LITTER FROM MRS. swIssHELM.
List Of Packages Received for Use i'm Hos
Difai.
CAMPBELL HesPIrAL, Washington, June -,

CAMPBELL HosPITAL, Warrington, June -, 1859.
DEAR TRIBUNE: l have received, since last &C
acknowledgement, from John S. Mann, Pa, 81 cash;
package of papers, Thomas Leggett; box Of dried
fruit, X. F. Cottng Mass.; barrel Of currant jelly,
Edmund Hooe, n. Y; barrel jellies, pickles, &C.,
Delhi, n. Y; box lemons, A. +. Hayden, Brooklyn;
two boxes delcacies, LawrenceyiIe, Pa; box Of
oranges, friend III Utica, n. T.; two boxes LEMONS,
Norwalk, n. T.; two boxes lemons, j. X. c., New
York; box currant jelly, fruit, &C., James Scott,
Carbondae, Pa; two boxes lemons Silas p. Knight,
New York; box lemons, Hon. Schuyler ColtAx; 8
boxes lemons and oranges, Sophia Russels, -, N.
Y; boxes lemons, pickles, ellies and dried fruits,
Ladies' Aid Society, Belyidere, n. j.; barrel OF
lemons. jellies, pickles. &c, Lakevhle, Conn; box
lemons, 81 Bible class, n. l.. Church, n. Y. ten
frui. and pickles, Ladies' Patriotic Association st.
Johns Cbappel cash, so, Gerrit Smith; CASH, S5o
A. WIN. HOoley, New York.
This is all iud Oh my Lists, bat 1t does not appear
10 be nearly one-haf Of what have received. Very
many barrels and boxes must have been sent with
out any letter. There is barrel Of lime juice,
which win be invaluable when the lemon season Is
over, and do not know who sent 1t, and very many
other valuable things.
receive many letters inquiring II the sick sol.
de 90. the comforts sent for their rse and stating
the belief that surgeons and nurses appropriate
them to their own use. have visited four hospi.
tails, and spend all my time not thus employed IN
distributing rtores here and taking Of the sick.
Trustworthy Committees men or women, whom 1
know personally, and can trust implicitly, have
visited every other hospital in and this city,
aud III all except Campbell and Armory square we
have found serious deficiency in the supply Of fruit
acids. j find chsplains and other friends Of sick
soldiers very willing, nay anxious TO dispense the
dslicacies sent zoe. The fact that there il little
store.room where sick man can got q lemon or pot
Of jelly without written order, signed and coun-
.ersgned by two or three Governme officers ia
nsiled as important, and from this Judge there il
some trouble in getting supplies conveyed 10 the
men who need them. fear that red tspe'sometimes
gets between the sick and bis lass Of lemonade.
until the is dead and the lemon rotten, and that
this happens when there is intention Of wrong
!. may BE- likewise, that surgeons and nurses steal
from the sick. have had no opportunity OF aiding
In any hospital but th.s and have to believe
the surgeons here somewhat exceptional in their
care Of patients; but, unless they were omncient,
they could not be quite certain that no wrong Is
done.
began this work feeling that surgeons and
nurses the natural enemies Of the PATIENTS and
resolved that privstes and non-commissOned officers
aloneshoud hsvesthe benefit Of the stores sent me
but one night two nurses Of one ward were detailed
10 cit all night long beside the beds Of two patients
who bad each had limb amputated recently. Ono
was 70 watch an artery burst, and place his hand
on Q certain spot, aud send Instantly for the sur