My dear Lucy,-I've been trying so hard to get an opportunity to send you a note at least for if my memory serves me correctly you have a birthday to-day. Am I not right? Its old we are getting, is it it? [sic]
Well, my dear, accept my love and very best wishes
thatyou may have very many happy returns of the day.I am wondering if you've been lonesome at all and in fact, how everything is going - nicely, I hope. Just imagine me sitting up teaching a class of young men or women perhaps older than myself - I doubt if I could do it but I know you can. When you have an opportunity write me all about it.
I am just beginning the first night of my third week on night duty and have been having such a time. At first I had 3 typhoids and seventeen patients besides with just a probationer on to special one of the typhoids who
wasis delirious. Two are better now and one died so its not so hard. The last two nights I have been doing the work in both wards with one nurse on special in each ward. I've been so busy I had no oppertunity [sic] to write and morning I was deathly tired. It looks now as if I might have a little easier time for tonight at least and certainly I hope so. September is a hard time to be on because its the typhoid season and those are hard patients.Well, since this started a woman has decided to give birth to a child here tonight so I must say goodnight and go to work. Let me hear from [you] soon and accept my love and very best wishes. Soon, I'll have a birthday & then I'll be as old as you are - so now.
as ever yours
AnnieSept. 22. 1905