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    "ocrText": "EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT\nAMERICAN BOOK COMPANY\nWASHINGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK\nJanuary 3, 1919.\nJAN6\nmiss\nMiss Jane A. Delano\nmayes\nAmerican Red Cross\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Miss Delano:\nWill you please give me the present address of Miss Rachel\nC. Torrance? The last letter I received from her was from the\naddress 42 Grosvenor Place, London, S. W., but I understand that\nshe was assigned to duty in the American Red Cross Mission to\nthe Balkans. Has she gone with that mission do you know?\nI inclose copy of a letter just received from our brother\nRobert who is a Lieutenant of Engineers stationed in Blois for\nsome time. I send it because I think you would like to have\nthe information it contains, but as it was written with no idea\nthat it would be shown to you, please consider it confidential\nand return the copy to me.\nBy the way, I remember that Sister Rachel received only one\nservice bar for her work in the hospital at Kief and for her work\nin Bulgaria with Miss Hay -- although a nurse who had left Kief\nafter a few months, returned to the United States, and gone again\nto Europe would for a shorter length of service at greater ex-\npense to the Red Cross have received two bars. The present case\nwill present a similar situation. Some of the Roumanian Mission\nreturned to the United States for a rest before returning to\nEurope for service in the Balkan Mission or elsewhere. They will\nreceive two bars for the work in Roumania and the work in the\nBalkans or elsewhere. Is Rachel to receive only one bar for the"
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