Letter from the National Director of the Nursing Service to Agnes Stanfield

December 5, 1928. Mrs. H. P. Garner, c/o Sanitary Service, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. My dear Mrs. Garner: Your letter announcing your marriage gave me a great surprise. While some years ago I should probably have regarded it 8.6 not quite the proper thing for & nurse to marry while she WES holding a nursing job, tim E have changed and our attitude toward such matters have undergone & -complete adjustment, consequently I em sending my blessings and best wishes that you will be very happy. Naturally, I am delighted to knos that this will not take you away from your work in Haiti, and while I have always felt that marriage might interfere with the type and character of work that an individual F A.E obliged to perform, I have found by prectical experience right in my own office, that this does not make so much difference 88 we once thought it might. We have many married nurses in our public health nursing service, asdres far LB I can see they are 5.6 efficient and effective in their work 8.E they were when they were single. I do hope, my dear, that you are going to be happy, and that ultimately you'will have your own home and st 16 doin into as homemaker. Pleas offer my congratule- tions to Ur. Garner. with best wishes for the coming holiday, I am LB always Sincerely yours, n.h National Director, Nursing Service.