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ITT < March 24, 1941 Miss Lillian Evans, Cambridge Hospital, 330 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts My dear Miss Evans: I am writing to offer you an appointment to the Mursing Staff of the American Red Cross-liarvard Hospital Unit to be established in Eugland. We are pleased that you are interested in this Unit, and we feel the nurses who take part have ahesd of them an interesting under- taking and will bring back to this country an experience that will be uable in nursing. Information regarding insurance, uniforas, personal clothing and luggage is being sent to you in the same mail. The enxlosed forms for your physical examination should be rilled in and returned to us. If you mill give the x-ray report rirst con- sideration and mail it to us just as soon as possible, we shall be able to make arrangements for your final physical exeaination by a physician appointed by Dr. Gordon, while the other forms are being completed. Your appointment to the Unit is, of course, pending a satisfactory physical examination report. If you have obrigated yourself in any way to the Aray or Navy since August 1940, we should koow of this before we consider you for appointment to the Unit. If yo receive any communication from the Arny or Navy while in communication with us regarding an appointment to the Harvard-Red Cross Unit, please notify us at once. May we hear from you, stating definitely that you are interested in accepting a position general staff nurse with this Unit. Cincerely yours, 8 5 Gertrude Vadley, Chief Nurse, M/B emerican Red Cross- 8 Harvard Hos ital Unit. Enc. - 6 8

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