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    "ocrText": "-3-\nThis closed the correspondence between Miss Delano\nand Miss Richards. It was not until April 1924 that we heard again from\nMiss Richards when she returned her annual questionnaire, stating:\n\"I return the blank as you sent it. I am an old woman\nand very lame, a 'shut-in' and am of no use to anyons.\n\"My days of usefulness are past. I am deeply in-\nterested shill in mursing matters but am of no use to anyone.\nIt might be well to have my name dropped; I think I have\nsuggested it but I have been told that my name showed an\ninterest and so it remains.\"\nIn my reply to Miss Richards, 1 said in part:\n\"You hold an honor place in our enrollment, and be-\ncause of your splendid service to humanity in general and nursing\nin particular, you shall always be retained as an honored member\nof our enrollment.\n\"I am so glad to know that you were well enough\nto write the note, and that nursing affairs are still a matter of\ninterest to you.\n\"I well recall my very pleasant association with\nyou when I was connected with the Massachusetts institutions,\nespecially the New England Hospital for Women and Children, and\nlater at St. Luke's in New Bedford. With best wishes for your\ngood health, I am - -\n\"\nIn 1925, the June issue of the Red Cross Courier carried\nan article on Miss Richard's life. A copy of this was sent to Miss Richards,\nthinking that it might be of some interest to her. We also sent her some\nadditional copies so that she might sond them to her friends.\nThe questionna ire which was returned in 1924 was the last\nwe ever received from Miss Richards.\nIn the History of Red Cross Nursing. official page 68,\nthe name of Linda Richards appears but once and then among a group of dis-\ntinguished lay women and nurses as a member of the Committee \"to secure by\nAct of Congress the employment of women nurses in the Hospital Service of\nthe U.S. Army\". This Committee, after many months of hard work, secured the"
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