ies upon soldiers' garments sent to us from Nova Scotia, down to the
little child, diligently sewing with tiny fingers upon the soldier's
comfort-bag, the co-operation has been almost universal. Churches, of
all denominations, have exerted their influence for us; many schools
have made special efforts in our behalf; the directors of railroads,
express companies, telegraphs, and newspapers, and gentlemen of the
business firms with whom we have dealt, have befriended us most
liberally; and private individuals, of all ages, sexes, colors, and
conditions, have aided us in ways that we cannot enumerate, that no one
really knows but themselves. They do not seek our thanks, but we would
like to offer them. Their service has been for the soldiers' sake; but
the way in which they have rendered it has made us personally their
debtors, beyond the power of words to express."

One of the most efficient auxiliaries of the New England Women's
Auxiliary Association, from the thoroughly loyal spirit it manifested,
and the persistent and patient labor which characterized its course was
the _Boston Sewing Circle_, an organization started in November, 1862,
and which numbered thenceforward to the end of the war from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred workers. This Sewing Circle raised twenty-one
thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars in money, (about four
thousand dollars of it for the Refugees in Western Tennessee), and made
up twenty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-two articles of clothing,
a large part of them of flannel, but including also shirts, drawers,
etc., of cotton.

Its officers from first to last were Mrs. George Ticknor, President;
Miss Ira E. Loring, Vice-President; Mrs. G. H. Shaw, Secretary; Mrs.
Martin Brimmer, Treasurer. A part of these ladies, together with some
others had for more than a year previous been engaged in similar labors,
at first in behalf of the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, and
afterward for other soldiers. This organization of which Mrs. George
Ticknor was President, Miss Ticknor, Secretary, and Mrs. W. B. Rogers,
Treasurer, raised three thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars in
money, and sent to the army four thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine
articles of clothing of which one-third were of flannel.

Another "Boston notion," and a very excellent notion it was, was the
organization of the _Ladies' Industrial Aid Association_, which we
believe, but are not certain,