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    "ocrText": "-2-\nMiss Madley and All the Nursing Staff\nNovember 18, 1941\nWhat do you have to pay for bicycles? I am sure a bicycle would\nbe just the thing to have in Salisbury. What do they cost there now?\nWe are on the verge of ordering uniforms for ourselves here. You\nwill be glad to know that gabardine for the uniform is being recommended,\nwhile a thicker and warm wool is being selected for the top coat. Things\nare changing here, and there are a good many occasions when we think that\nuniforms would help our job, so they are being ordered. I am especially\nglad to have mine so that it will be all ready when I sail for England\nand my visit to you all.\nMiss Phillips, your description of the work which has been and is\nbeing \"done by the public health group, makes me very envious that I am not\nthirty or forty years younger so that I could be doing it too. We are\nawfully proud of what you are doing. I thrilled as I read your report,\nbeginning September 15. It makes me think of the typhoid carrier traced to\na New Hampshire apple picker and packer. How thrilled Pasteur would have\nbeen! Think of a. school teacher and the wife of a truck gardener - she,\nherself, working at a nearby bar.\nYou will all, I am sure, like Mrs. Broughton, the housemother. At\nleast I speak of her as housemother although I have not yet heard the result\nof her physical examination. She makes us all think a little of Mrs.\nBreckinridge. She is very eager to come and we hope to be able to tell you\nthat she is on her way very soon indeed. You must want her for Christmas.\nThere was much humor, we thought, in the account of admitting the\nfirst patient. We paced the floor with Dr. Gordon, paraded in Red Cross\nnurses' capes before all the personnel with you, Miss Madley, and found\nourselves right in the spirit of the patient who must have regarded the whole\nperformance as a very excellent show. By the way, where was Bagpiper when\nthe patient came in?\nYou will be interested to know of the consideration that is being\ngiven to ways in which we may keep the memory green of those members of the\nHarvard-Red Cross Unit who were lost on the way across the ocean. Julia\nStimson, as President of the American Nurses' Association, has been appointed\nto work with me on it.\nMrs. Breckinridge's family and friends are giving money in memory\nof her life to be used as a loan fund for the nurses of the Harvard-Red Cross\nUnit as long as they may need such loans and after that for other nurses. This\nmay be a very small sum but it is what she would like, I think. Mr. Loomis\nhas wanted a stone to commemorate Maxine's bravery to be set up in their lot\nin Vermont. This, the Red Cross is doing.\nMiss McGill has been to see me lately. She seems to be very well\nand is doing some nursing now. So far her accounts of the sinking of the\nMaasdam are the most complete we have. We have offered the opportunity to\nplace their names on the reserve list of the Harvard Unit to each one of\nthe returned nurses. So far, I believe, Miss Pelc and Miss St.Pierre have\ndecided to do so."
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