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    "ocrText": "Extract taken from letter from Miss Torrance to Miss Noyes, June 20, 1925.\nThe Bulgarian Red Cross and others responsible for this school are very insistant\nthat I stay on. Mr. Bicknell's letter mentioned that my leaving is because of\npersonal reasons (i.e. his letter to the Red Cross) and I am repeatedly reminded\nthatit rests entirely with me whether I stay on longer - they really are most kind\nin their intentions, for I do believe that they think I have done a good work, and\nwant me to know that they appreciate it, and that they think no one else will\nanswer. The fact is that anyone sent here by the ARCNS who had a fixed purpose and\nsome ideas would have accomplished as much as I have and probably more, - what is\ndone until now is due to the cooperative efforts of several people. Miss LeGros\ndid a great work of housecleaning around here in more ways than one. I do regret t\nthat in the first place we did not have a larger better staff, for we would have\ngotten on faster and with less fumbling, - now I say that with conviction, but all\nt\nthe time that has passed I have not realized what a difference it would have made\nBut even though these good people are so insistant, I feel that I must be firm with\nmy personal reasons, the most important of which is to make room for more capable\npersonnel for the business. This reason which I call the most important was not\nso well formed in my mind earlier, but it is now pretty well grounded. Besides\nthis, I am as you know most anxious to get back to my country and my people.\nIf only one years more delay would be the best thing for the work here to which\nI\nhave already put a lot of time and strength, I know I ought not to insist\nbut anyone who knows training school work will see that maybe I have done a\npasable job for the beginning when there were almost no desirable students to work\nover, no spirit of cooperation or faith in one another in the air, and lots\nof intriguing going on, but now there is the state of effairs that will permit a\nfirst rate program, and calls for a specialist. Also I am not real well and find\nmyself often without ideas that used to come readily. So please, considering\nthese things, make the desired decision if this question is brought up anew\nas it may be, for I understand that another request is being sent from B.R.C.\nto Washington on this subject. Please do not leave it entirely to me to refuse t\ntheir pleas. \"\nLetter answered by Miss Butler, July 10, 1925.\n\"\nMiss Noyes is entirely sympathetic with all that you say about your\nreturning to this country after your very out-standing service in the Bulgarian\nSchool, and in event of Mr. Bicknell hearing from the Bulgarian Red Cross,\nwe will certainly advise that the present arrangement be not changed, i.e.,\nthat Miss Goff will remain. As Miss Noyes will be with you in a few weeks\nnothing will need to be settled until she arrives. I am sure that she will\ngreatly enjoy visiting together, and I know that she is gooking forward to\nher visit with you. \"\nsee letter filed 502. Bulgarian School (Corres\n)"
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