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    "ocrText": "70\na\nSeptember 2. 1920.\n5.\nMiss Ruth C. Waterbury.\nS\nc/o Mrs. J. Guy Woodward,\n701 McDonough St..\nJoliet, Ill.\nMy dear Miss Waterbury:\nIn my letter to you I quite forgot the important matter of equipment.\nI\nam enclosing to you our equipment card, which you will go over and check for the\nthings that you wish on it and then forward it to Mrs. Mande hoody. Bureau of\nJurses'Equipment, Atlantic Division. Ameri can Red Cross, 44 E. 23d. St., New York\nCity. In going over this list, let me cell your attention to the following\nitems:\nYou note it says both trench coat and ulster. I doubt in the Virgin Islands\nif you need both as the climate there is even and never very cold, so I would\nadvise you to take whichever one of thege coate you think would be most useful to\nyou, especially in rainy weather, though I am very much afraid you would find the\ntrench coat yery heavyo Possibly if you wrote against trench coat \"light weight\nrain coat\". Mrs. Moody would let you have that instead. You will want the suit,\nwhich is dark blue serge, and white waists - possibly the flannel, though I should\nimagine I would rather have the three white waiste without the flannel waist in\nthe Virgin Ialands. I should take all the hate offered me and the rubber boots,\nalso the sweater. The underclothing I leave to your judgment though I would not\nsay\nthat you would need woolens. In that case, you had better indicate in\nwriting against it that you want light weight wool or cotton. The gray uniforms\nyou will use for your school work as they are cotton and can be worn out-of-doors\nin such weather as you will encounter.\nWhen you send this card on to Mrs. Moody, tell her the date on which you will\nbe in New York on your way through to Boston and be sure at that time to sae her,\nas you will be able to have your suit fitted and it will save time just before\nyou sail. I think that that covers the matter.\nYours sincerely\nIda F. Butler,\nDirector, Dept. of Nursing,\nInsular and Foreign Division,\nAmerican Red Crosse\nNational Headquarters,\nIFB: DM\nWashington, D. C."
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