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    "ocrText": "Extracted from letter from Miss Torrance to Miss Noyes, 3/5/24, from Bulgaria.\nYour letter of January 30 was recieved some few days ago. You will no doubt\nbe relieved to know that I agree to stay on here until the fall of 1925. The\nfirst class consisting of one student will finish her 2 years 9 months course\nDecember 1925. If it is going to be possible to continue this American program\nfor a five year period altogether it would mean American personnel until the\nspring of 1928. My decision is made under protest and only because I am\nin volved to a considerable degree by this time in obligation to the girls\nwhom I have admitted as students. I do not want to be so long in a foreign\ncountry. I do not want to do training school work. I do not want to be as much\nas 39 years old when I begin to find myself at home. My offer and agreement in\nthe first place was to be here until last of June 1923. as associate of assistant\nto the real director. I appreciate that my stay here until this time and longer\nwas decided with my appointment as Dir ector soonafter I came. but I did not\nrealize it at that time. Miss LeGros, I feel, does not qualify for Director,\nand in any case she does not want the work, and of course it would be about\nimpossible to find someone who would want to come on and pick up the tag ends of\nanothers work in this case. In Copenhagen I told you as I remember, that I wante\ned to stay here certainly until the right person is found for the palce, but that\nI hoped for early release - as early as possible. I was anxious to come here\nin the first place I wanted very much to pick up my old associations here, and\nto do something to put Nursing Service, \"on the map\". Perhaps I was unduly\nsolicious considering that I wanted only to help start the work. In any case\nthe question of my release cannot be indefinite any longer. as you say. A definit\nplan is necessary both for myself and for the best operation of the program\nhere. I have for the last month and more said to my associates in the work, and t\nto the students that I shall be here until fall of 1925. I see no other way\nof completing the obligations towards the students which I have become involved\nin. I do hope that American nurses may be continued here until the spring of\n1928, for a less period is bound to be unsatisfactory but my engagement ends\nin about October1925. You may decide before that time tomrelease me, for, al-"
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