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    "ocrText": "August 21, 1914.\nMedical Director C. F. Stokes,\nNaval Hospital,\nB\nPhiladelphia, Pa.\nMy dear Dr. Stokes:\nYour letter of August 19th just received, also your letter to\nMiss Boardman hs.s been referred to me for reply. I am indéed glad\nto know that you are still interested in the Nursing Service and any\nsuggestions you may make would certainly receive consideration from me.\nI shall not soon forget the splendid way you always supported me when\nSurgeon General of the Navy, and I feel under the deepest obligations.\nMrs. Higbee and Miss Bowman both called on me a few days ago. and I feel\nsure it will be most fortunate to sonsider her appointment as one of\nthe supervising nurses. I will tell you the exact bituation so that\nyou may know our plan of wórk. We have called on eleven committees\nto furnish a unit of twelve nurses including one supervisor. In making\nthis request, I authorized the local committees to submit names for the\nsupervisor of their group. All of the groups now ready for service\nhave sent in the name of the supervisor selected. It seemed most\nnat-\nural that Miss Bownan should be assigned to duty wi h the Philadelphia\ngroup, and I suggested her name to them after seeing Mrs. Higbee. They\nhai already made arrangements with Miss Lehman, present superintendent\nof the Visiting Nurses Association in Philadelphia, and a woman well\nknown to the Philadelphia nurses, to act as supervisor, and were un-\nwilling to retract after having made the arrangements. I feel quite\nsure that we shall be able, at the last, to find a place for Miss\nBowman, but just at the moment, it is impossible to say how this can be\ndone. We were in doubt in the beginning whether it would be possible\nto accept her service as she was on active duty in the Navy, and I\ndid not know that it would be possible for her to resign and be re-in-\nstated on her original status. Mrs. Higbee assures me that this can be\ndone, which removes one difficulty which prevented our naming her in\nthe beginning. In the meantime, I will do my best to assign her with\nsome other group-and will write you later concerning the matter.\nWith best wishes and assuring you of my appreciation of your\ninterest, believe me,\nYours sincerely,\nChairman National Committee\nJAD/G\nRed Cross Nursing Service\n2"
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