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    "ocrText": "July 5. 1938\nMiss Alice Fitzgerald\nAmerican Woman's Club\n353 West 57th Street\nNew York, New York\nMy dear Miss Fitzgerald:\nThere must be something in mental telepathy for I\nhave been thinking about you lately and wondering where you were\nas it is a long time since I have had the pleasure of receiving a\nletter from you, so the arrival of your letter was in response to\nmy desire to hear from you.\nMr. Normait H. Davis has been in London attending the\nConference of the League of Red Cross Societies. He returns to this\ncountry on Friday, July 8th, and I think plans to come directly to\nWashington. I would advise you to write him in care of the American\nRed Cross so that a letter will await his arrival and in the mountime\nI will send your letter to his office. I do not know his future\nplans regarding his stay in Washington. of course, I shall be\ndelighted to see you and expect to be here until July 16th when I\nam leaving for one week's vacation, but I will e back in the office\non Monday, July 25th. If you would prefer to have a letter reach\nMr. Davis in New York, his home address is 59 East 79th Street.\nHow does it seem to be retired? As I am facing this\ngreat change in my life in the near future, I am thinking a great\ndeal about it and what I 43071 going to do. My first step will be to\nretire to Hartford where I will live in a little apartment to be near\nmy family. I expect to keep very busy and east planning many things\nI am anxious to do. One is to also do a bit of writing for it seems\nto me that some of KIV Red Cross experiences might well become permanent\nrecords; at least they will be interesting to my family.\nI shall look forward to seeing you at some future time\nfor I have a very happy recollection of you and shall never forget\nyour great kindness to me during that awful year 1918 when Paris was\nin such a neas. You never seemed to lose your poise and my recollection\nis that when I talked with you, you also seemed to have retained your\nsanity which is more than can be said of everyone with whom I had to\nwork but in spite of the trials and tribulations of that year, I look\nback upon it with the greatest satisfaction. It was indeed an\nopportunity which I have never regretted."
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