Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Maybe you could find a pink to match this print I think it would make a pretty block Kalgan June Dear folks This will be an addition to the letter I started the other day if I can find it I has been a dark rainy day today but I am most happy for a dark day now and then The old amah started my rose garden quilt today I got the pattern from Mrs Williams at the Methodist mission I would be so happy to get prints and also plain colors to match the
Leatha Coulston to Family - Apr. 16, 1934
Correspondence
1934-04-16
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Dear folks Elmer is lying on the davenport He is reading the Reader s Digest Christiansens take it and always pass it on to us This is the end of a wild day I wish I could say it was the end for the poor nurses Each one of them have about fifteen patients to give treatments too tonight They are only children and I feel sorry for them but what can we do We almost hate to tell you about our work for we do not want to give the impression that we work so hard W
Leatha Coulston to Family - Jul. 4, 1933
Correspondence
1933-07-04
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Dear folks This is the fourth of July and we celebrated by staying home as usual We had planned to go to the great wall and have a picnic supper but it rained all morning so it was too wet We had our picnic supper tonight even had ice cream Elmer is having pleurisy and so is having a little rest Mr Erie is here from Mukden to get the X Ray started so he is doing Elmer s work It is fortunate that he is here at this time Elmer s temperature was this af
Leatha Coulston to Family - Jun 1934
Correspondence
1934-06
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
On Train Dearest folks I just left Nanking and I will be in Chiao T ou Tseng at about noon I hope there will be someone to meet me The trip down has been so lonely but I have to get used to it It was heartbreaking to leave Peiping It was our first home I really do want to come to America If I am as lonesome as I have been the last couple of weeks the I will not stay here It would be better to be with my own people After all it means little to anyone else T
Leatha Coulston to Family - Aug. 3, 1933
Correspondence
1933-08-03
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Kalgan Chahar Aug Dear folks The one o clock whistle is just blowing and I ought to take a nap and then go to clinic but I ll write you instead and then take a sun bath and to clinic Well I ve had a wild morning First a man was brought in who was shot through the cheek and through the leg All I can do is to dress the wounds and stop the bleeding Then I took the splint off a terrible let irrigated it washed the splint and re lined it and cleaned t
Leatha Coulston to Family - Jul. 5, 1934
Correspondence
1934-07-05
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Chiao T ou Tseng July Dear folks Your letters written just after Elmer s death came this morning I have read and re read them and will probably read them some more I am staying here with Calista and Cecil They are so good to me Everyone has been good to me but Calista is a real comfort She lets me talk and never seems bored and it seems to relieve me This is a lovely place although it is very hot We have a lovely swimming pool not more than twenty
Leatha Coulston to Family - Jul. 31, 1933
Correspondence
1933-07-31
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Kalgan Chahar July Dear folks Now I call this composure to sit here when I have a million things to do I just took a good nap and now I feel some what relaxed Let me tell you what I celebrated this A M Went to the telephone station to find out that all lines have been cut between here and Peking except those in charge of the military officials Well I promptly went and got Elmer s card and went to Feng Z Hsiang to telephone They were anxious to do w
