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and Italy and France may be sidetracked. While on the Adriatic we learned from an officer in charge of English mail that whole mails had been lost between Marseille and [Sateurnique?] in twice that number of days. So that too much cannot be expected. The letters I received from you this morning are not at all regular as to number, and I know that several are on their way back to me from [Salanique?] where we failed to [waylay?] all. Having just arrived I have no