I believe I have now distributed all the mail that has accumulated here, which was in enormous piles. There still may come alittle more from the Office, but probably not a great deal. Mr, Miller from Seoul has ture! up here ready to find something to do if there were anything to do. The band of the 14th Infantry is' in our compound at the back of Mr. Aitken's burned house, They have twenty or more pieces and discourse fine music to sick and well. Yesterday sixty of the wounded were sent home from the Hospital in the Methodist Compound. You know that there ara eleven nurses who came on the Grant,' They are doing good work. There wary twenty operations on Tuesday night, most ly searching for balls which ought to be extracted. I wish Thad some individual word from the besieged in Peking, but that must await the coming unalls.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.