Finding Themselves: The Letters of an American Amy Chief Nurse in the British Hospital in FranceStimson, Julia C. (Julia Catherine)
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Finding Themselves: The Letters of an American Amy Chief Nurse in the British Hospital in France
Stimson, Julia C. (Julia Catherine)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
It is a cold, rainy day and you’d be surprised to know how really cold
it is. At night the night nurses are already wearing all their heavy
underwear and their sweaters and their capes. I don’t quite see how they
are going to manage when real winter comes. It is hard to realize that
it is only the end of June. We had just two warm days, but when the sun
is out it gets warmed up around the middle of the day, but most days
coats are very comfortable. I am having a new blue serge uniform made
here in town, for I can foresee that, with my office work, I shall be
wearing the “stuff” uniform much more than the white ones. My office
which was the jockey-room of the grandstand, in one corner of the back,
is a very pleasant room. It is about as large as the central one of our
Training School offices at home. The furniture is a large plain table
covered with a dark blanket, shelves and cupboards made of boxes, a
small folding table, some camp stools, a couple of straight chairs, and
some matting. But the effect is quite cozy, and some reddish art squares
on the stained boxes make the room quite cheerful.
I have not written for about two weeks, for there has been very little
to write and I have not felt much like writing, since we have had no
mail at all since those first few letters that reached us here just
after we got here. I have kept thinking that I would put off writing
until I had some letters to answer. But none have come. To-day the
doctors got a whole batch, but there were only two letters for the
nurses. That is the way our mail has been coming through, one or two
letters at a time. It seems very probable that some of our mail has been
lost or missent, for the few of us who have received letters say that
reference is made in them to previous letters which have never arrived.
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