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. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved 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. DEDICATED TO ALL MY MAJORS WHOSE KIND HELPFULNESS WAS NEVER FAILING...

These letters were written as the daily record of the work of a Unit of Red Cross nurses who were sent to France in May, 1917, in response to the request of the British authorities. The Unit, almost immediately after its arrival in England, was sent across the Channel to take over a British Base Hospital established on a race course, where they have cared continuously for a stream of from eight hundred to two thousand wounded “Tommies” at a time. The original sixty-five American nurses were assi

  St. Louis, May 4, 1917. Dearest Mother and Dad:— As you have probably seen by the papers, we all are in the midst of alarms. We have had less than a week’s notice to get ready for mobilization for service in France, and so it has been a rushing week. Last Saturday afternoon we received word we were likely to be called out soon—in two or three weeks—but on Tuesday night I received word to have the nurses ready by Saturday. It is now Friday evening and most of the nurses are ready, but it is qui