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    "ocrText": "December 12, 1922.\nMiss Alice Fitzgerald,\nBox 424,\nManila, Philippine Islands.\nMy dear Miss Fitzgerald:\nYour letters of October 24th and 30th have reached\nme. My vacation is so far in the past that I hardly appreciate that I have\nhad it. It could hardly be called a real vacation, as I saw my sister\nthrough an operation which proved to be nothing more than exploratory, with\nno possibilities for effecting a cure. I was in and out of the Hospital\nin New London almost every day, and in the intervals getting my house estab-\nlished so that she could live there with a companion this coming winter.\nI spent Thanksgiving with her and found that she was very happy and comfort-\nable in my cozy little home, and while she is up and about I can see that she\nis beginning to show the effects of the condition. It seems hard to\nappreciate that the situation is a serious one, but she of course has no\nknowledge of the real condition.\nI am amazed that Miss Olmsted should have written\nyou such a letter, when she knew full well that it was through my efforts\nthat she was brought to this country. Judge Payne would never have thought\nof it. I cannot understand her ethics. Would it be possible if you are\nwriting to her, to let her know that I had sent the copies of my communica-\ntions to you, knowing that because of your association with the League that\nyou would be greatly interested?\nIt seems incredible to me that Misa Olmsted should\nhave allowed Dr. Sand to have selected her Assistant. I hope to be able to\ntell you in an early letter of our conference with Sir Claude and Miss.\nOlmsted. It is too long to tell in this letter, so I will do little more\ntoday than briefly acknowledge your communications, as I am preparing for\nthe Meeting of the National Committee on Red Cross Nursing Service which is\nto be held ******, when the Annual Meeting of the National Red Cross takes\nplace as well.\nI have not as yet been worried about Miss Anderson\nas everything seems to be quiet as far as they are concerned.\nWe appreciate in this country the effort that you\nand Miss Gibbes are making to improve nursing affairs in the Philippines.\nMiss Giron and the other nurses needed the backing and support of such\nwomen as you. The Army nurses that have been there, have I imagine tak\nlittle or no interest in local nursing affairs, otherwise we should not\nhave been all this time without an organisation which might be affiliate\nwith the American Nurses' Association."
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