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Letter from Celia Duffin to Auntie D, 3 December 1915

PRONI

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I am still in the same ward, but have
<lb/>a new staff nurse now who comes from 
<lb/>America and is consequently full of new
<lb/>ideas. She has been doing laboratory
<lb/>work for some time and is very ready to
<lb/>teach us which is different from some 
<lb/>of the nurses who don't bother to explain
<lb/>anything. We have two or three
<lb/>poor fellows suffering from nerve shock at
<lb/>present, rather difficult patients to
<lb/>nurse. They are very nice men and
<lb/>quite sensible, but one thinks that
<lb/>he is dumb and another that he is deaf,
<lb/>although there is nothing really wrong
<lb/>with their organs, and will be all right
<lb/>when they have had a little rest.
<lb/>Sister sent the deaf one to the concert
<lb/>last night and he went very meekly
<lb/>although he hears nothing.<pb/>
I am hoping to see Dorothy in her way through
<lb/>London, I am having a day off on
<lb/>Tuesday, so hope she will come then.
I liked Auntie B's <unclear>cuttings</unclear>, it was
<lb/>good of her to send them, I suppose
<lb/>the war must change them, but
<lb/><del>they</del> the ones who have been out always
<lb/>seem to be nicer than the recruits we
<lb/>get in the wards sometimes. It seems
<lb/>to make them more thoughtful and
<lb/>gentle instead of making them harder.
Here is quite a nice little chapel 
<lb/>attached to the hospital and we sometimes
<lb/>get permission to go in the mornings if
<lb/>we are not too busy in the wards.
I want to thank you all ever so
<lb/>much for the Xmas money mamma has
<lb/>forwarded to me. I don't think we really
<lb/>ought to have any Christmas presents
<lb/>this year, it is too good of you yo give it.<pb/>

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Letter from Celia Duffin to Auntie D, 3 December 1915

PRONI

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