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contributions from individuals.

The absence of larger contributions from this City is caused from the necessity for individual action not being fully appreciated - most persons have not been at all awakened to the duty, and many are [[innocuous?]] as to the extent of suffering among the Negroes - they comfort themselves with the belief that the Government will provide all that may be absolutely necessary for their physical necessities -

If I am not taking too great a liberty in asking it, myself and my friends would be much obliged for any information which you can consistently give us on this subject - we should use it discretely, and entirely for influence from individuals in our own circle of society - a more general movement might be made if it should be become necessary, and, if it should appear possible, some of