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In the Rope Walk Hospital I enquired of an attendant about the food and found that all received only dry bread and coffee with a little sugar and a bit of meat for dinner

I have no idea who is responsible for this and I can easily conceive that there is no intention of wrong. But a just wrong it surely is little less than a slow process of murder. If there is no remedy from the Bureau then such facts must be spread through every Freedmans Association in the North. But why should the Negro suffer when 3000 of the Whites in Richmond receive a more comfortable subsistence

Very respectfully
S.F. Smiley

Rec'd 31st Oct/65

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