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    "ocrText": "AMERICAN RED CROSS-HARVARD HOSPITAL\nHARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT\nAMERICAN RED CROSS-HARVARD FIELD HOSPITAL UNIT\nJOHN E. GORDON, M.D., DIRECTOR\nFebruary 23rd., 1942\nSALISBURY, ENGLAND\nMiss Virginia Dunbar\nAssistant Director Nursing Service,\nAmerican Red Cross National Headquarters\nWashington D.C.\nU.S.A.\nDear Miss Dunbar:\nWe have waited so long for Doctor Gordon's return; he\nmust be very disturbed at not being able to get back. Most of us\nhave our top coats now and they are a great joy. We found some\ngood cloth and we have a red lining similar to our capes. They\ncost a little over $40.\nOur buttons and pins have not arrived yet. The capes,\ncaps, shirt blouses and emblems marked Harvard Unit came this\nweek. (I am sorry to say I did not know that Miss Sundby's cape\nwas lost too; you remember she only lost part of her baggage, so\nhers was not included in the seventeen.) Unitl we know definitely\nthat we will be expected to stay another year, I will do nothing\nabout a second suit for the hospital staff, because those who\ndo not wish to stay, naturally will not need one. Also storm\ncaps, I have done nothing about, because winter is almost over\nnow and I would prefer the design be decided upon there if we\nshould need them for next winter. I do think it is very probable\nthough, that nurses who stay on will need another hat.\nWill you let me know when the first year started from\nfor the nurses. Will it be their date of sailing! As soon as I\nhave some definite information I will let you know how many\nreplacements will be needed.\nYou do know don't you that we have a number of nurses\nwith Public Health experience attached to the hospital staff.\nIn my letter of December 29th., I asked if the cut out\npins on a white back-ground may be used. So far we have used\nonly those on a gold background. Mr. Drowne sent over a\nsufficient number of service pins, but I have not given them out\nbecause I don't know where they should be worn unless it be in"
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