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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
Grave of Elmer Coulston and his infant son Chris
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Leatha Coulston surrounded by other missionary wives at her husband's funeral
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1934-05-30
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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
Flowers piled on Dr. Coulston's grave
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1934-05-30
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Group of Missionaries at Dr. Coulston's Gravesite
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1934-05-30
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Leatha Coulston to L. C. Coulston - Jun 1934
Correspondence
1934-06
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Peiping China June Dear Father Coulston I just feel about wild There are so many things to think about and so many things to see too that I hardly know where I am at I feel like a ship without a rudder Mr Christian has been appointed administrator of everything He is not clever nor is he awfully bright I cannot trust his judg ment Now I thought that you could find out at least I have told Mr Christian to have the American Consul drop it until they hear
Children holding memorial flowers and banners in the funeral procession for Dr. Coulston
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1934-05-30
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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
Truck bearing the casket of Dr. Elmer Coulston
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1934-05-30
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W. E. Howell to L. C. Coulston - May 28, 1934
Correspondence
1933-05-28
Howell, Warren Eugene 1869-1943
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
MAY PM Z WUX WASHINGTON DC P L C COULSTON CABLE DIED IN OAKLAWN AVE B A T T L E C R E E K FROM C H I N A SATURDAY BRINGS NIGHT KALGAN WEDNESDAY CONFERENCE WIFES FAMILY RELATIVES W E SAD NEWS THAT PEIPING WITH SENDS AND HOWELL IN THE MICH OF D I P H T H E R I A DR M I L L E R DEEP OTHERS YOUR ATTENDING SYMPATHY PLEASE SON ELMER FUNERAL GENERAL NOTIFY HIS
Leatha Coulston to Family - May 1933
Correspondence
1933-05
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Kalgan Chabar May Dear Folks Dad s letter mailed on April the twenty first came this morning and me were so happy to hear from you again Elmer just returned from going to the station to get our fruit and vegetables We have them sent up from Peking once a week It is better stuff and cheaper too even counting transportation then me can get here Miss Chang just called Elmer to come and see another outside patient That makes six patients this morning Elmer di
Harry Miller to L. C. Coulston - May 27, 1934
Correspondence
1934-05-27
Miller, Harry Willis 1879-1977
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Mr and Mrs L C Coulston Battle Creak Sanitarium Battle Creek Mich My dear Brother and Sister Coulstoni Great sadness has come upon u s I think we have never had anything that has been more of a shock to us than the suddenness with which the end has come to our dear coworker here i n the mission f i e l d I am dictating these few lines to you just previous to taking the train for amp algan Word cam to us this morning of the death of the doctor I t was only
Leatha Coulston to Elmer's Parents - Jun. 21, 1934
Correspondence
1933-06-21
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Kalgan Chahar June Dear folks Tonight I leave It is so hard to leave I cannot tell you how I feel One minute I feel that I cannot stay here a minute longer and the next minute I feel that I cannot leave It is the place we worked together to build up We loved the mountains the sunsets and our home Am enclosing these pictures and please send one set to Aunt Emma I have not written her as I just cannot write It gets me so upset that I cannot sleep at a
Flowers at the grave of Dr. Coulston
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1934-05-30
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Dorothy and Otto Christensen posing by Elmer Coulston's grave
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In Memoriam and Obituary
Document
1934-05
Christian, Hervey Ward 1889-1959
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
I T HEHCHU AH apos Dr Elmer F Coulston be loved physici n of the North China sanitarium and Hospita l Ka lg a n passed to his rest in Peiping May th apos d t P M Funeral service will be held at the Slni tard um three o apos clock Wednes ay afterno on May th Interment will take lace at the foreign cemetary All frien d s please accept this intimation quot Greater love h th no man th n this that a man lay down his life for hia friends
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
George J. Appel to Leatha Coulston - Nov. 8, 1934
Correspondence
1934-11-08
Appel, George John 1892-1982
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Dear Sister Coulston Your kind l e t t e r has quot been r e c e i v e d As soon as I get a few moments time I will go down with B r o C h r i s t i a n and see that everything is ordered in harmony with your wishes for the tomb s t o n e s We have word that Doctor and Mrs Mourer are to a r r i v e in Shanghai tomorrow and no doubt w i l l he coming on toPeipingthe f i r s t of the w e e k Inasmuch as the h o s p i t a l has been without a physician for some two
Dr. Elmer Coulston's Diploma
Document
1930-06-22
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
THE TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICAL EVANGELISTS ON THE NOMINATION OF THE FACULTY OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL HAVE CONFERRED UPON ELMER F COULSTON I THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MEDICINE WITH ALL THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THERETO PERTAINING GIVEN AT LOMA LINDA CALIFORNIA THIS TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY
Leatha Coulston to Elmer's Parents - May 19, 1933
Correspondence
1933-05-19
Brooks, Leatha Wenke 1905-1997
Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections
Kalgan Chahar May Dear Folks It has been a long time since Elmer has written so I will write for him Wanted to write before we went to Peking but did not get around to do it We waited three weeks for letters from you so did not have much inspiration to write Here it is Friday again It is nearly and I just got up Next week I will have an early morning class again so decided to have a couple mornings of sleep before beginning to work hard again Now
Burial site of Dr. Coulston
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1934-05-30
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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
Carriage for the women in the funeral procession for Dr. Coulston
