Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord

Washington Oct 19 / 61

Dear Br Broughton

Please send with the other things 3 each of your libraries(the wooden & the smaller ones.) Also you better send samples of all your new books, especially for children. Br. Ballantyne is to advertize & sell, & now that we are to remove the charitable depots to a new room he can do this to much better advantage — (the selling to be at his store & the giving at the rooms in the P. O.) — He thinks he can sell a good many of the soldiers books. People who want to give to ^the^ army will buy. The Hy. Bk. we hope to get Regt's to pay at least 7c price for. Also we think of having charity boxes in the Regt's so that all who will (in the Army) may contribute. The soldiers