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    "ocrText": "S.\nseill\nbib to Brow s Joil Jaom e\neven I aid dor? bee dent bedialy en lismo red work Issd I\nstamot 0$ zed bestel and BROTO February 19, Moleasigak sd's banisa\nnost regast omo a at al eria exerc. moldiang le as has sidt to $150\n.smit\nof\nemit\nMiss Helen Scott Hay olde ed for birrow envasia I\nSavanna, I appro UOY bexas I Noids I\nedd diltw exed STOW DOE assin bejaizo Jods eaon{ 2019 wor Vijapoo Jane xi\nof 88708 golX on at START ... creeng\nMyrdear Miss Hay: estov and ed deen ton 11 TO ,slow KYOV\nJent brue ,Attest at Your letter of February 16th has [just reached me. In a\nTorrance, she made the same statement tooe othat\nshe had expected to be relieved Tong before this, etc.- imagine my surprise.\nWhen I saw Miss Torrance in Europe last August, she stated not only her\nwillingness but her, desire to remain indefinitely, as she had become tremend-\nously interested in the School and its development, and if we were satisfied\nshe would like to stay on. Not a word was said by her or myself as to send-\ning a successor this autumn. I told her how greatly relieved I was to find\nthat shelwas withing difficult for me to find a\nnurse with the proper qualifications in a short time. I explained to her, in a recent\nletterthat in a measure it would have been much easier for us to have found someone\nfrom the out set, as I am sure you will agree with me, that to replace Miss\nTorrance at the end of a year by a person without knowledge of the Bulgarian\nlanguage or the people created very evident difficultiesfor us, as her un-\nfamiliarity with the situation and the language would probably place her in\nan unfavorable position with the Bulgarians, who are devoted to Miss Torrance.\nI wrote to Miss Torrance, immediately, expressing my sur-\nprise. If she feels that she must leave now, and as the period in which we\nwill continue our work there is comparatively short, I would suggest that\nMiss Legros remain and do the best she can with the Bulgarian nurses who\nare\nassisting her, possibly sending an assistant. This would be the best I\ncould do at the present time. Miss Torrance has done a fine piece of work,\nand while I should not have selected her at the outset, the special quali-\nfications which you mentioned and which you seemed to know so well, seemed\nto outweigh her disqualifications.\nI have always been doubtful of the wisdom of our returning\nto Bulgarianand making an attempt at a modern School of Nursing Education.\nIn spite of Miss Abbotts desire to have us come back, and her protestations\nof assistance, not a single student from the Samakov School has teen diverted\ntoward the Nursing School. I think this has been very discouraging to Miss\nTorrance, who had expected some assistance from that quarters. On the whole,\nhowever, I believe that she has accomplished a great deal, and wrote probably\nto you and to me at a period of discouragement. A recent letter is more\noptimistic in its character. I have written to her, telling her that if she\nfeels she must come away immediately that the only thing she can do is to\nleave Miss Legros in charge, who I am sure will do the best she can.\nMiss Torrance has recently had a visit from her brother,"
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