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    "ocrText": "June 4, 1941\nMiss Eillian Evans\n40 Westminster Avenue\nspec del\nArlington, Massachusetts\nan mail\nMy dear Miss Evenst\nYou will soil from New York June 10th.\nFor abvious reasons you are specially requested not to divulge to\nanyone the date or ship on which you expect to sail. You should not show\nthe ship's name on any tags or labels attached to your luggage; simply\nspecify \"A Ship\",\nWill you kindly fill in the enclosed spplication blanks and return\nthem immetiately by air mail. All three sheets must be signed. Questions\n#5, c,de of #7 end 19 need not be answered. The remaining unanswered\nquestions on all three copies mast be filled in.\nEnclosed is a check which is to defray official expenditures enroute to\nEngland. You are urged to purchase Anerican Railway Express Travelers Checks\nwith this advence. Be sure that you are faniliar with the instructions given\nby Mr. Harolo Toy, director of accounting. These instructions were sent to\nyou previously together with the green booklet \"Travel and Leave Regulations\".\nPassengers may not take into the United Kingdon more thrn 10 pounds per\nperson in Sterling notes. Any Sterling notes in the possession of passengers\nover and above 10 pounds will be liable to confiscation. During the voyage,\npassengers may use one pound or 10 shilling notes but the Purser is not per-\nmitted to accept notes of 5 pounds or higher denomination. Passenzers are\nwarned not to exchange more than is requirod for their use during the vayage\nor for immediate expenses on landing, bearing in mind the fact that they may\nnot take into Creat Britein more than 10 pounds in Sterling notes.\nMrs. Ruth Breckinridge, our house mother, will be in charge of your group.\n8\nTie will expect you to report to her the evening of June 9th, at the Pennsylvania\nHotel in New York. Your roon will be reserved at the Pennsylvania Hotel for the\n5\nnight of June 9th. You can get in touch with Mrs. Breckinridge through the room\nclerk.\n8\n8"
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