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    "ocrText": "September 3, 1941\nMiss Gertrude Madley\nChief Nurse,\nAmerican Red Cross Harvard\nField Hospital Unit,\nSalisbury, England.\nMy dear Miss Madley:\nIt has been almost two weeks since Miss ulson left the Red Cross.\nEveryone here is most interested in her welfare and to date we have\nheard nothing of her whereabouts.\nI am enclosing some information on this last group of nurses that\nyou probably will want for your Little black book. Also I am sending\na copy of Secretary of State Knox's letter to Mr. Norman Davis commending\nthe assistance which was rendered to the Marines by our nurses on board the\nS.S. Maasdam. We thought they might like to see a copy of this letter which\nhas been sent to each of the nurses parents.\nWe were very delighted to receive your cable regarding Dr. Gordon's\napproval of your sister. Believe me things were really moving at a great\nrate of speed immediately following receipt of that cable until the group\nsailed which was only a few days. It was a very exciting and interesting\nfew days I can assure you. The last group of ten replacements had very\nshort notice themselves, about two weeks at the most, I believe, which is\ncomparison to the time some of those who applied the last of last year and\nthe first of this year had had before sailing, was indeed very short.\nMiss Olson's group is bringing along the packages from the parents of\nthe nurses who have requested additional articles in Miss Phillips' letter\nthat Mr. Jacques brought along. Poor Miss Olson looked like a truck horse\nwhen she left here. Each day for about a week before she left she would\ndiscover something additional that had to be taken along for somebody and\nI just don't know how she managed. Miss Williams from here took the same\ntrain for Boston so maybe she was able to help Miss Olson.\nMiss Dunbar has authorized the payment of $100. a month for Miss\nFrances Madley to begin with. We will await further instructions after\nassignment.\nMost everyone here has had some part of her vacation if not all. I\nam now waiting for Mrs. Heley to return in another two weeks so I will be\nable to take mine. That will put it about the middle or last of September.\nI could do with some time right now, I'm sure. We did have this past\nSaturday prior to Labor Day and Labor Day off which made a nice week-end"
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