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    "ocrText": "$\nAIR MAIL\nMarch 30, 1942.\nMiss Gertrude Madley, Chief Nurse,\nAmerican Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit,\nSalisbury,\nEngland.\nLetter #5\nMy dear Miss Madley:\nI am so glad to get your letter of February 23rd, and feel very con-\nscious of not having sent a letter off to you for sometime. With all the\nimportant things there are that we could talk about, it does seem ironical\nthat we must write back and forth constantly counting buttons, but perhaps\nthey do help to keep the unit together! I am sending this letter off\ntoday\nwithout waiting for what seems a really worthwhile message to go with it,\nbecause that is what has delayed some of my previous notes for you.\nButtons\nWe have sent off so many of these that I am sure they must be on\nthe way if they have not reached you. The last large amount was\nsent after February 12th, so that they might well be still on the\nway.\nI am enclosing a memorandum which itemizes some of the things we have\nsent, and also copies of the requisitions which may make it a little easier\nfor you to check things off as they arrive.\nPins\nThe ARC pins (black) and the Red Cross cutouts have also been sent\naccording to the enclosed requisitions.\nYou refer to the service pin which Mr. Drowne sent. This is a pin\nwhich is worn according to the following regulations:\n\"Designed by Miss Malvina Hoffman.\n\"It may be worn by all individuals currently engaged\nin Red Cross work, paid and volunteer, foreign\nor domestic.\n\"The service badge is intended to be worn with civilian\nclothing only, as its use by workers in the\nuniformed groups would conflict with the special\ninsignia usually worn with uniforms. Men should\nwear the service badge on their coat lapel and\nwomen to suit their individual taste in such\nmanner as will not conflict with regulations\ngoverning the wearing of insignia of the organized\nVolunteer Special Services or other groups.\"\nYou may use your own discretion, therefore, about distributing them."
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