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JULIA C. STIMSON
From the photograph for her passport, May, 1917.
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The Letters of an American Army
Chief Nurse in a British
Hospital in France
BY
JULIA C. STIMSON, M.A., R.N.
Chief Nurse, No. 12 (St. Louis, U. S. A.)
General Hospital, B. E. F.
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.”
—Rupert Brooke.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918
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Copyright, 1918,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1918.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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TO ALL MY MAJORS
WHOSE KIND HELPFULNESS
WAS NEVER FAILING
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NOTE
These letters were written as the daily record of the work of a Unit ofRed Cross nurses who were sent to France in May, 1917, in response tothe request of the British authorities. The Unit, almost immediatelyafter its arrival in England, was sent across the Channel to take over aBritish Base Hospital established on a race course, where they havecared continuously for a stream of from eight hundred to two thousandwounded “Tommies” at a time.
The original sixty-five American nurses were assisted for several monthsby English Volunteer Aids, and when these were withdrawn, they werereënforced with some thirty American nurses.
Though written with no thought of publication, as the war lengt