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    "ocrText": "B\now\nEstas\nJune 5th 1920\nNiss Gertrude Bowling,\nCare of, liss Lillian Hudson,\nTeachers College,\nColumbia University,\nNew York City.\nI\nNy dear Miss Bowling:\nI am sorry I did not have an opportunity to see and talk with you\ntwo or three woeks ago when I spoke to the public health nurses at Teachers\ncollege. Miss Hudson told me something of your work and your tentative\nplans for the future but I should like to have had un opportunity to have\nhad a personal talk with you as 1 em especially interested, of course, in\nall our Johns Hopkins nurses who are taking up public he=lth nursing.\nI am now writing to see 1f I can interest you in accepting e posi-\ntion as public health nurse for Telbot County, Muryland. As you are a Mary-\nlander perhaps you re fomiliar with this particular county, which is one\nof the eustern shore counties, but in case you do not happen to know this\nparticular county let me give you some idea of it.\nI had the good fortune a week ago of visiting this particular\ncounty for the purpose of giving one of the graduating talks to the graduat-\ning class of the hospital at Easton, the county seat. 1 was entertuined\nby Mrs. Thomas Cullen (nee Mery Burtlett ixon) the Editor of our Magazine\nand so had an opportunity to see more of the county then I might have other-\nwise. It is one of those counties on the estern shore which it seemed to\nme was so cut up by bays and rivors there was more w ter then there was land\ngiving it an unusuel beauty. I don't know when I have seen any part of the\ncountry so beautiful ithout the aid of mount ins or the oceans. There are\nseveral old southern homes in the county and many people whom you ould find\nmost congenial and who would afford you more ompanionship then most of our\nrural nurses can have. Some of those who would be behind the nursing ser -\nvice live in the county the year round, 1 understand, and others are there\nexcept for a few winter months. 1 thought they showed a genuinely sincore\ninterest in the well being of the people in the county and in the proposed\npublic health nursing service. I think any nurse g ing there would be cer-\ntoin to have active, intelligent and sincere support from the Chapter people\nand from those interested or engaged insociate work of one kind or another\nin the county.\nIt seems to me it would ble a particularly congenial piece of wor k\nfor a hopkins nurse inasmuch as th re are three Hopkins nurses living th re.\nTwo of them, Miss Frances Butler and Xiss loborley ire in charge of the\ntraining school in ston. The other is Mrs. Cullen, whose family home is\nnear Easton and who spends the greater part of the yeur there. These three\nare very much interested in the proposed pursing service, especially Urs."
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