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    "ocrText": "December 31, 1918.\nMiss Lettie G. Welch,\n14th & Welton Sts..\nDenver, Colo.\nMy dear Miss Welch:\nYour letter of December 21st has just been\nreceived, concerning the now famous case of Blanche Ina Lewis.\nI realize tuat the situation is left in a\nvery unsatisfactory state. I did not appreciate the fact that\nMr. Morey had requested that any subsequent communications with\nthe Chapter at Colorado Springs regarding Miss Lewis should be\ntransmitted through the Division office. Miss Delano did not\ngive me this message; consequently I wrote direct to the Chapter\nin response to their many communications, telling them that I\nregretted that Miss Lewis had left the country before an oppor-\ntunity was given National Headquarters to make a thorough inves-\ntigation. I am enclosing a copy of Mr. King's letter in conférma-\nof this statement.\nYour assumption however in regard to my letter\nto the Pike's Peak Chapter is not quite correct. You state.\n\"We assume from your letter that you have written the Pike's\nPeak Chapter direct, allowing them to infer that they are alto-\ngether justified in their position in regard to Mis 6 Lewis, and\nthat the only reason she reached France was because the Bureau\nof Personnel had made a mistake, etc.,\" I made a simple statement\nof facts to the Chapter, explaining that Miss Lewis had left the\ncountry and the reason for this concluded my letter by stating that\n\"I can only express my sorrow that she should have sailed without\nan investigation, as we have tried to be exceedingly careful to\nsend to Europe only those nurses who meet the highest standards\nboth professional and ethical.\"\nI have not attempted to enter into the circum-\nstarces as presented by either you or the chapter. If I were to\naccept the statements of the chapter, I should have to believe\nthat not only Miss Lewis but you were seriously at fault. In\njustice to the chapter, to you, and to Miss Lewis it would have\nperhaps been desirable that a thorough investigation should have\nbeen made, at which Miss Lewis should not only have had an oppor-\ntunity to defend herself, but that both you and the chapter might"
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