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    "ocrText": "September 5, 1922.\nMiss Lillian Thite,\nDirector, Nursing Service,\nPacific Division, A.R.C.,\nCivic Auditorium,\nLarkin\nGrove Ste.,\nSan Francisco, Calif.\nMy dear Miss White:\nI am distressed to hear of your decision to\nresign from the Division Office. I prequme there is no other course\nto pursue, but to regard, Miss Cole as the Division Director of\nNursing. I wish that she had a little broader experience as far\nas training schools, etc, are concerned, and I an wondering how\nsuch time she will be willing to give to the generál program of\nnursing as far as organization of committees, enrolment, contacts\nwith schools of nursing, prepiration for disaster relief, advice on\nHome Hygiene and Care of the Sick, and assi tance with disabled\nnurses, as well as helping to securo nurses for the various\ngovernmental services? I have great respect for her as a public\nhealth nurse, and I believe that she is a very fair-minded person.\nThe only thing is that her public health nursing program is so\nimportant and is 80 pressing in its nature that it would be\nexceedingly difficult for her to see the irportance of the other\nphases of nu sing, even with the best intention.\nWould it be possible to bring Miss Harrington\nin\nto the office, for I fear that unless someene is there to look\nafter this side of the nursing question it will suffer very\nserioualy?\nMay I ask you to ahow this letter to Mr.\nBrannion in order to let him ses how I feel in regard to the whole\nmatter? Is it wiser to ask him whether he considers it better to:\nask Mias Cole to accept the appointment as Director, or would it\nbe wiser to ask her to accept it as Acting Director for a time?\nI am very sórry that you feel it necessary to\nresign, but I sympathize with you and appreciate your feeling in\nregard to the whole matter. I hope you will let me hear from you\nfrom time to time, even though you may not be in the office, and\nI shall always look forward to having you return to us at some other\ntire. I am hoping to get away for a couple of weeks vacation on\nThursday night, so that I am answering your letter at the sariiest\npossible opportunity.\nSincerely yours,\nnot\nDirector - Nursing Service."
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