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VIRGINIA P. BOYD ATTORNEY AT LAW 15 CROSS HIGHWAY WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT I MAILING ADDRESS: TELEPHONE POST BOX #149 AREA CODE: 203 WESTPORT, CONN. 227-5109 06880 February 7, 1973 American Red Cross 150 Amsterdam Avenue New York, New York 10023 Attention: Department of Nursing MIDS 0 Mesdames: I represent Helen Dore Boylston of Georgetown Road, Weston, Connecticut who was employed by the Red Cross during World War I as a nurse with the British Army. She was a graduate of Massachusetts General Hospital nursing school and went with a contingent of newly graduated nurses from that hospital to serve with the Red Cross in England. Thereafter she also served in Albania, I believe also under your auspices. Miss Boylston was born in 1895 and is now in her 78th year. I have been appointed conservatrix of her affairs because she has become incapable of managing them herself. She also recently suffered a crushed vertebra and is now confined to a nursing home for what her doctor believes is a terminal illness. Because she was employed as a nurse by your organization, are there any benefits to which she presently would have access, either money or care in a designated hospital? You may remember that she is the author of a number of books beginning with Sue Barton, Student Nurse, which have been very popular both in this country and abroad for nearly 40 years. She is not indigent but her income is insufficient to pay for nursing home care which she will need for an indefinite period, and I am investigating possible sources of aid to her. W Very yours, truly 5 I VPB:rec Virginia K. Boyd 8 9

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