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to ? + ton , H a a November 20, 1940. Miss Ida Maude Britton, Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital, Hastings, Nebraska My dear Miss Britton: This is in reply to your letter of November 15 expressing interest in the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital Unit. We are selecting for staff duty approximately 50 nurses who have had definite experience and preparation in the nursing care of communicable diseases. Experience with the Harvard Unit offer's an unusall opportunity to nurses with such training. Those who are appointed to the Unit will not only be part of a significant undertaking, but will beturn to their work in this country with an experience gained which is seldom available. Further information about the Unit is given on the enclosed sheet. Since you are already an enrolled Red Cross Nurse which is one of the requirements for such an appointment, we are sending to you in the same mail an additional sheet, supplementary report of training and experience, which gives information supplementary to that on file in your enrollment folder. If you will rill this in and return it to us, we shall be better able to give your application further consideration. Sincerely yours, Patience L. Clarke, Chief Nurse, American Red Cross- Harvard Hospital Unit. C/B Encl. - Supplementary report of training and experience Sheet of information on nursing details. News Release of August 19

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