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    "ocrText": "July 8, 1941\nAIR-MAIL\nMiss Gertrude Madley,\nAmerican Red Cross Headquarters,\nBrettenham House,\nLancaster Place, W.C. 2,\nLondon, England.\nMy dear Miss Madley:\nWe were 30 very happy to get yours and Miss Phillips interesting\nletters. It helped to have news during these anxious times.\nIt is good that the nurses from the torpedoed ship are there with\nyou now, Their broadcast came over very well and the reports in the\npaper have been good. Oh; I've been so proud of the spirit they have\nhad. The nice picture of the four of you looking at Big Ben was in the\nNew York Times Hezald.\nThings are going along all right for our nurses over here. We have\nappointed the remaining ten who will sail with me, and are having no\ndifficulty so far with final arrangements. We should be all ready by\nthe middle of August. The last to be appointed include Lillian Tifft,\ngraduate of Hartford Hospital. She has recently been working in a very\nisolated district in Alaska. We also appointed Ruth Berndt, graduate of\nAncker Hospital, St. Paul. Anne Baroniak cancelled out because of family\nobjections. The response to our letters to the young new enrollees isn't\nvery good.\nWork with the Harvard Unit is sleeking, so today I've started taking\nback some of the work given Miss M. Peterson.\nMiss Puby Freer was appointed to the reserve Public Health staff\nJune 3. As yet we have not received the physical examination blanks from\nher. We asked her to have a physical examination now by her own physician\nand Be will hold up the final physical examination until she is needed.\nSmith-Gray has kept the measurements for all the nurses so We will be\nable to make replacements that are necessary as soon as you inform us what\nis needed.\nI will bring over an extra supply of hose. Is there anything else\nthat you feel we should bring? I'll appreciate your buying some of the\nbulky material for me."
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