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    "ocrText": "2222 S STREET\nWASHINGTON 3,D.C.\nDear Miss Petersen:\nPlease pardon a typewritten note from the\noffice.\nI cant tell you how much it meant to me to\nreceive your letter of March 28th with enclosure of\narticle to be published in the Courier, for as you\nknow, I was one of Ida Butler's devoted friends and\nfans.\nI always got a tremendous kick out of Miss\nButler. She had a marvelous sense of humor and she\nwas one of those people who found the secret of stay-\ning eternally young. Our friendship began way back\non that day that my beloved boss, Admiral Grayson,\npresented her with the Florence Nightingale Medal,\nand to me she was one of the grandest gals I ever\nhad the good fortune to know.\nAt Christmas time I had my usual note from\nher, written in the hospital. While her writing was\na bit shaky, the tone of the letter was cheerful- as\nalways- and she closed in the way she has always done-\nwith these lines: II How I wish we could get together\nfor a gab fest and an Old Fashion.\" And believe me,\nshe knew how to make those Old Fashions, too. There\nwas nothing synthetic about them! You can imagine,\nthen, what a kick I got out of her nephew's story.\nI was thinking last night as I read your\nletter how fortunate the Greatest Mother has been in\nhaving such wonderful women in Nursing Service. I\nhope the powers that be have appreciated them. It\nwas my good fortune to know and to count as friends\nMiss Noyes, Lindy Havey, Helen Dunn, Alta Dines and the\nincomparable Mary Beard - and the day will never come\n(in my opinion) when any other department of the Red\nCross can boast of a more distinguished or devoted group.\nAnd there are many others, including yourself, who belong\nin that same category, and I only wish I had had the\nchance to know you as well.\nSo - many thanks for remembering me when you\nwrote that Round Robin. I appreciate it more than I\ncan say.\nYours sincerely,\nMarch 30\nGeodyp R. Newman"
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