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    "ocrText": "May 20, 1929.\nMiss Alice Fitzgerale,\n95 Via Masaccio,\nFlorence, Italy.\nMy dear Miss Fitzgerald:\nTwo letters have reached me from you,\nbut as the first crossed one from me I made no attempt to\nanswer it. Your second letter, dated May 5th, and received\na few days ago brings up one or two questions which I felt I\nshould answer with some promptness.\nNaturally we want to eee you at the\nI.C.N. Headquarters. I believe that your preparation iminest\nly\nfits you for that position. It is all a question of securing\nthe salary. Something has to be done to give Miss Reimano assist-\nance, she is killing herself wi th work. The magazine alone is\nenough for one person. Therefore, I hope that following the\nDirector: meeting in Montreal that some additional assistance\ncan be provided. She has an English nurse, a Miss Ruddell, who\nwasfar has been of no assistance, for no sooner had she arrived\nthan she was obliged to leave in order to have an operation and\nhas only just returned to the office. I imagine that she has\na limited preparation, consequently the amount of assistance that\nshe can give will be limited. The arrangement, I believe, is\nof more or less & temporary character, 88 1 am under the impresa-\nion that Miss Reimann did not tie herself up too tightly with\nher. I know Miss Reimann is very anxious to have you. I think\nshe would like to turn the magazine over to you entirely, as well\nas the visits to other countries. Field visits, however, are\nlimited because of our financial situation. Miss Reimann thinks\nthe magazine could be made self-supporting and perhaps it can be\nif the proper person is there to develop it. She is now having\nall sorte of difficulties with strik re and has not been able to get\nout the May number as yet, but has made arrangements with another\nprinter to bring it out in connection with the July number. All\nthis by way of preface to 5 remark that 1 want to make, and that\nis, that I hope you can delay making a definite decision as to\nyour future until after the board meeting.\nI do know of the Italian Nurees' Associa-\ntion, but so far it is impossible for its officers are made up of\nmen and women who are not nurses. We do not know how things will\ndevelop."
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