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    "ocrText": "I\nboier\n&\nD\ns\nsaRe\n(b\n-\nthe\nDo-170\n1823\n9-23-18\nMiss Angelica Peale Didier,\nPear\nMemorial Hospital,\nWinchester, Va.\nMy doar Miss Didier:\nYour application for foroign sorvice undor the Rod Cross has boon approved by\nthe War Department. The Division of Transportation will sond you definite instruct- I\nions concerning your date of sailing and all other necessary information, and these may\nrequest that you do not leave your home until you have received and executed\ninstructions. This is essential if you are to secure your passport promptly.\nI am enclosing a circular of information which gives you detailed instructions of\nconcerning the service. I would suggest that you secure immediately a copy the\nbirth certificate and that you have three (3) dozen photographs made, size\nyour of the head to be not more than 1 by 11/2 inches in order to fit some of the papers, cents\nand no hat should be worn. These photographs should cost not more than 50 the\nto one dollar a dozen and should be secured as reasonably as possible. In\ncities where there is frequent request for passports the regulation photographs\ncan be obtained for about this price.\nThe term of service is for the period of the war, but nurses may be released\nat Nurses sent over under the Red Cross are expected to remain in this service\nthe expiration of one year if the reasons given for release meet with approval. and\nrequests for transfer to the military service cannot be considered.\nbooked to are sail. If you are held in New York after that time the additional make\nYou allowed salary from date of leaving home to date on which you are sal-\nary allotment desire of this salaey before leaving this country. After Forms\nwill be paid in France. The salary is $70.00 a month and you may sailing, any\nhoweiser, there you can be no change made in the method of payment Personnel. of salaries.\nfor this purpose will be sent you later by the Department of\nbusiness arrangements are made by the Bureau of Transportation leave whose\ninstructions All you will receive, and may I repeat that you should them not out. your\nhome until you have received these instructions and carried\nsoon after arrival in New York as possible to Miss\nYou should Johnson report at 44 East as 23rd Street. Miss Johnson is the reppesentative and will direct of the\nFlorence Nursing you to the Service Division there of and Personnel will see. for that necessary you receive information your equipment concerning your pessport\nand transportation, at 222 Fourth Avenue.\nFor information concerning insurance see A R c 702/\nST\nThe should nurses communicate arriving in with New the York Central after 5 Club, P.M. 132 or on East Saturday 45 Street Strest afternoon and upon 4th arrival, or Avenue,\nphone Sunday Murray Hill 8700, or with the Park Avenue Hotel, 32nd"
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