HOSPITAL SKETCHES

BY

L. M. ALCOTT

"Which, naming no names, no offense could be took."—Sairy Gamp

Boston:

James Redpath,Publisher,

221 Washington Street.

1863.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

James Redpath,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

These sketches

are respectfully dedicated

to her friend

Miss Hannah Stevenson,

by

L. M. A.

A considerable portion of this volume was publishedin successive numbers of The Commonwealth,newspaper, of Boston. The sudden popularity theSketches won from the general public, and the praise theyreceived from literary men of distinguished ability, aresufficient reasons,—were any needed,—for theirre-publication, thus revised and enlarged, in this moreconvenient and permanent form. As, besides paying theAuthor the usual copyright, the publisher has resolvedto devote at least five cents of every copy sold to thesupport of orphans made fatherless or homeless by the war,no reproduction of any part of the contents now first printedin these pages, will be permitted in any journal. Shouldthe sale of the little book be large, the orphans'percentage will be doubled.

Boston,August, 1863.

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