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    "ocrText": "FORM\nNATIONAL OFFICERS\nRED CROSS WAR COUNCIL\nDY APPOINTMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES\nWOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENT\n-\n-\nROBERT w. DE FOREST, VICE-PRESIDENT\nHENRY P. DAVISON, CHAIRMAN\nJOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, TREASURER\nJOHN D. RYAN\nJOHN w. DAVIS, COUNSELOR\nCORNELIUS N. BLISS, JR.\nSTOCKTON AXSON, SECRETARY\nTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS\nHARVEY D. GIBSON\n-\nGEORGE B. CASE\nNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS\n----\nWILLIAM HOWARD TAFT\nCHAIRMAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE\nEX OFFICIO\nELIOT WADSWORTH, VICE-CHAIRMAN\nWASHINGTON, D. C.\nWILLIAM HOWARD TAFT\nHARVEY D. GIBSON, GENERAL MANAGER\nELIOT WADSWORTH\nApril 30, 1919.\nL\nMiss Clara D. Noyes,\nNursing Service,\nAmerican Red Cross.\nMy dear Miss Noyes:\nI have had some conversation with Miss Pickett regarding\nan article for the magazine on Miss Delano. The customary \"funeral\noration\" is a thing to be dreaded, particularly in her case. It always\nseems\nso hollow and forced. It seems to me so true a story can be told\nabout her life and work - told as it really was. But to the big public\nthat did not know her she was simply an impressive figure.\nMiss Pickett has suggested that Agnes Repplier might\nwrite such an article. She surely could, but I should like to suggest\nthat the simple story of Miss Delano's work, her aspirations, her growth\nin her sphere and her final accomplishment must be told to a writer in\nits intimate and appealing detail to enable her to commute it into the\nhuman document that will interest and touch all kinds of people - and make\nthe story legible in terms of human feeling.\nI wonder if Miss Pickett or Miss Nevins - somebody who\nwas close to the heart of the matter, can go to Miss Repplier, possibly\nwith a letter from you, and give her in addition to such printed data as\nmight be needed, the personal facts that will make the article. By this\nmeans I can see a possibility of carrying this story from simple beginnings\nto a very human and very beautifül climax. It might be the progressive\ndrawing of a character to the point of final fruition, naming Miss Delano\nonly at the end of the story.\nIn making this suggestion I am speaking not only for the\nmagazine, which we are trying to bring to a different level from that it\nhas heretofore occupied, but for the cause that Miss Delano represented\nand for the future Of it.\nVery sincerely,\nJohn munford)"
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