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    "ocrText": "AMERICAN RED CROSS\n(CROIX-ROUGE AMÉRICAINE)\n- 2 -\nevening and am at the office to-day, so that you will understand\nthat t I am very much better and hope to be altogether well in a\nvery few days :\nYour cable came while I was at the hospital and I have\nnot had a chance as yet to ask Miss Hall, in regard to the answer.\nShe surely told you that Miss Patterson has gone to the Balkans,\nNew York.\nso that it will be impossible to secure her now for the work in\ning in one of the divisions and she is very much interested. I\nI have talked with Miss Fitzgerald in regard to speak-\nfor am wondering if she would not do for the New York office, at least\nthe time being. She seems deeply interested in the Red Cross\nI\nand a woman of a good deal of poise and intelligence. I do not\nknow about her qualifications as a Public Health nurse, but will\ntalk with Miss Hall concerning them.\nof give passports and transportation and hope that we may be able to\nI will take up with the Bureau of Personnd, the question\nthe nurses some assistance when passing through Paris.\nmove\nMiss Parsons came int to see me last night and it was\ncertainly a pleasure to have a chance of talking things over with\nher. I shall hope to have her into dinne : r some evening this week\ndefinite ideas in regard to conditions over here.\nfor a nice long visit. She has lots of sense and has pretty\nI have visited the majority of -the hospitals in and\naround Paris and feel very sure I shall be able to start out within\nthe next few days. We have had quite a snow-storm, the first of\nthis year and after the snow has gone, I imagine it will be warmer.\nI sent a letter to Miss Gardiner by one of thenurses\nher soon telling me of her decision.\nexplaining our desire for her return and shall hope to hear from\nless. lights which explain a lot of the things which puzzled us more or\nThere are many funny situations over here and many sirie-\nIt is impossible to go into details until I return as I\nam never quite sure whether the mail will be censored or not. The\nhere with me to talk things over and I shall always regret that it\nonly thing I need to make me altogether happy would be to have you\nwas impossible for us both to leave Washington.\nhave done a splendid piece of work - and that any lapses that have\nIt is perfectly clear to me that the nuses generally\noccurred are exceptional cases and-in no way a general rure."
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