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    "ocrText": "file\nApril 30, 1942\nCLIPPER MAIL\nLetter #]\nMiss Gertrude Madley\nChief Nurse\nAmerican Red Cross-Harvard Hospital Unit\nSalisbury, Wilts., England\nMy dear Miss Madley:\nYour letters of April 8 to me and Miss Beard came in yesterday\nand I am sitting down to acknowledge them to assure you that we are\nimmediately at work on filling your needs. I have listed everything\nin your letter and hope I can check every item off with an answer.\nWe are very glad to have the suggestions to give the nurses to be\nappointed about clothing and articles to bring.\nDo you remember the magazine called \"The Family Circle\" which\nis always in the grocery stores with a sign above it \"Take One\"?\nYou will be excited, I am sure, to know that your picture below appeared\nnext to General MacArthur no less in an article on the Red Cross. I\nhave clipped on the part of the article which referred to the Unit.\nI\nnever expected to read about you in the grocery store!\nAnd so you all have gardens! I have never been able to make any-\nthing grow and I am surely glad no one is dependent on my efforts. We\nhave been very sympathetic readers of your diets and we are filled with\nadmiration for your ingenious ways of getting around difficulties. We\nare very interested to hear that the hospital is busy at the time you\nare writing.\nI shall look right away into the question of the salary for the\nAssistant Dietitien and if I find out anything today I will enclose it\nwith this letter. I am also checking on Miss Geekie and the procedure\nfor transferring to the Army Nurse Corps and if we have any information\non that today I hope to enclose it.\nI haven't talked with Miss Beard about seeing or writing to Mrs.\nStahlnecker, but whatever we might do by letter I should think we might\nsee her at the nursing meetings to be held in Chicago the 18-25 of May\nwhen Miss Beard and I both expect to be there part of the time.\nWe are having our first hot days and the trees are si ply beautiful.\nYou will be receiving this just about a year from the day you left here,\nMay 19. We all send our love to you and Elisabeth and Alice Olson and\nWalborg Peterson and would like to mention all of the others of your\nfamily of 62 as well. Wait til they see the Spring in England and if it\ndoesn't get under their skin, I shall be very much surprised for it is\ncertainly the living picture of Hudson's \"Green Mansions.\" I shall get\noff a letter in a day or two to give specific suggestions on your questions.\nSincerely yours,\nD/h"
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