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    "title": "Letter from the National Director of the Nursing Service to Agnes von Kurowsky",
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    "ocrText": "September 15, 1927.\nMiss Agnea H. Von Kurowsky,\nc/o Sanitary Engineer, U.S.M.C.,\nHaitian General Hospital,\nPort-au-Prince, Haiti.\nMy dear Miss Von Kurowsky:\nIt wae, indeed, & great disappoint-\nment not to see you when you called at National Headquarters,\nbut it is impossible for a person to be in two places at the\nsametime, is it not?\nYou have a double hold upon me now,\nfor you are not only one of my own students from Ballevue, but\nyour connection with the Red Cross in Europe and later your\nconnection with the Hatiain School has developed additional\nlinks of association and pleasure.\nI presume by the time this letter\nreaches you that Miss Moser will alrea y have left. Her\nletter of September 7th, etated - that *re. Lanone had arrived\nand was pleased with the home, and seemed to be fitting into\nthe work. She spoke of the \"comfort bage\" for the nurses next\nChristmas. I will pass her suggestions on to Ar. Bicknell, and\nbe in the meantime will see that they are passed on to the\nchaptere who have been good enough to make them. Mise Moser\nasked for fifty, and suggested white shoe polish and another\npair of white stockinge instead of the paper and envelopes.\nI will see if this can be arranged.\nI hope that you reached Haiti safely\nand found everything in good condition.\nIt was very nice to see General\nRussell & few days ago, when he came in to talk over the\nsituation with me and also to discuss the possibility of\nreduced rates on the Panama-American Line for the American\nRed Cross nurses. I urged him to do everything he possibly\ncould to secure this, which he promised to do. Incidentally,\nhe spoke in the highest terms of the work the nurses had been\nable to accomplish. He W8.8 very flattering not only in what\nhe said about you, but also in what he said about the\nselections that we had made."
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