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    "ocrText": "Miss Helen Teel,\nSeattle Visiting Nurse Association,\nc/o American Red Cross,\nSeattle, Washington\nApril 3,1929\nMy dear Miss Teal:\nI have just learned-from Mr. Swift that Miss Caneron wants to come\nback to the States at the end of her two year period in st.Croix, that is this\ncoming June. Mr. Swift hns asked Miss Noyes and me to secure someone to take\nher place and it has just occurred to me that perhaps you would like a term of\nduty in one of these outlying posts of ours. You will remember that you wrote\nme you might not stay on in Seattle after the first few months and Miss Peter-\nsen tells me that you spoke of attending the meeting in Montreal in July which\nmakes me think that you may be planning to return East later in the spring.\nIt is not necessary, of course, for me to tell you about our work\nin St.Croix as you will remember all about it. Miss Cameron has done very well\nwith it and has made herself solid with the various officers in the Navy. Cov-\nernment, etc. by taking an active part in the social life of the white colony.\nSociability is almost as important a responsibility in the Islands as is pro-\nfessional competency.\nAs you will. recall the salary is $2400, with transportation down\nand back and the usual vacation. Should you care to stay longer than two years,\nthe Red Cross would bring you home at the end of your two years for a month's\nvacation and send you back to the Islands at our expense.\nMr. Swift tells me that the Quinn sisters are opening a little\nboarding house which would provide a very pleasant place to live. Miss Gillette\nI am sure would be delighted to have you as her partner and I believe you\nwould find it really very interesting. Miss Trunn tells me that even now there\nare times when she gets homesick for the Virgin Islands and she says there is\na distinct appeal which is hard to forget.\nof course you will want to think this over a bit but I would like\nto hear from you soon as you know how much time it takes to get the right person\nfor the Islands. If you are not interested we will have to get busy and look\naround for someone else."
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