{"id":705,"date":"2012-07-18T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-lowcoburn\/?page_id=705"},"modified":"2022-01-29T18:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T23:19:45","slug":"transcription-low-to-coburn-9121890","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/transcription-low-to-coburn-9121890\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcription of letter from Mary Low to Louise Coburn, 9\/12\/1890"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Written in margin<\/em>: Don’t have Sophia telegraph unless she will sign.]<\/p>\n

Waterville, Sept. 12. \u201990.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Coburn,
\nYour note written from
\nBrunswick was not received till last
\nevening at the same time with the one
\nwritten from your home. Had I known that
\nyou were to go through W-, I should cer-
\ntainly have met you at the depot.<\/p>\n

The present \u201cstatus\u201d is this. We have
\n19 names, Miss White, Miss Leland and
\nMiss Winslow in addition to those of whom
\nyou knew before.<\/p>\n

Miss Leland writes a \u201csplendid\u201d letter
\nand says Miss Brown will write soon. I
\nimmediately wrote to Miss Leland asking
\nher to hasten Miss Brown\u2019s decision. We
\nmust hear from her soon.<\/p>\n

Miss Brown and Miss Merrill [in Col.?]
\nwe haven\u2019t heard from yet. If we don\u2019t<\/p>\n

hear by Sat. eve, I propose to send another
\nletter Sat evening mail asking them, if they
\nwill sign<\/span>, to telegraph<\/span> us on receipt of letter.<\/p>\n

We will pay for telegram. I think it won\u2019t
\ncost more than $2.00 at most, and as we
\nare to get two signatures by so doing, I think
\nwe\u2019d better do so. In that event we could
\nhear from them by next Thursday<\/span>. Hattie Joy,
\nI think we shall have to give up. She probably
\ndoesn\u2019t know anything about the discussion and
\ncannot, therefore, have much interest. She may,
\nhowever, come in at the last moment.<\/p>\n

Hattie and I called on Mrs. Hanson but she
\nsaid that, although she was perfectly in sym-
\npathy<\/span> with what we are doing, yet she thought
\nthat it would do no good for her to write to
\nSophia. Sophia has no interest in college mat-
\nters at all and the subject is a very painful
\none to her, on account of the experience that she
\nhas passed through. Mrs. H- thought she would
\nanswer the letter which you wrote her.
\nWouldn\u2019t it be a good plan for you to write<\/p>\n

again? If you should send a letter tomorrow
\nmorning, she would get it by Tuesday, I think.
\nPerhaps you\u2019d better ask her to telegraph. We
\ncould afford to pay for a telegram, if it were
\na favorable<\/span> one. Perhaps she would sign out
\nof regard to you if for no other reason. The
\nHansons are all strongly in favor of co-education,
\nI think. Mrs. H- is and she says Dr. H- voted
\nagainst<\/span> the new plan. She thinks Sophia is in
\nfavor of co-education, only, being outside of the
\ndiscussion, she has little interest in it now.<\/p>\n

I wish you would write to her. Do as you
\nplease about asking her to telegraph. It seems
\nto me, however, that it is better for us to be even $5.00
\nshort in expenses than to be lacking in names
\nthat might be obtained by a little extra
\nexpense.<\/p>\n

Miss Curtis I am the most troubled
\nabout. I have sent her two letters besides the
\nletter that went with the protest. I sent a
\npostal card to her relatives, I asked Miss
\nNorcross to write to her. If she is in the<\/p>\n

\u201cland of the livin\u2019,\u201d I should think she\u2019d receive
\nsome of them. Will you<\/span> write to her? If it
\nweren\u2019t so far I should approve of having some
\none go down to Kennebunk and hunt her up.<\/p>\n

Probably she is not there but I should think a
\nletter would be forwarded to her. I believe I will
\nwrite to Minnie Mann at Biddeford and ask her to go and
\nsee her or ascertain her whereabouts. Mrs.
\nMann might, perhaps, help us also about Miss
\nLittlefield. She also has had several letters, the last
\none I sent through Cornie Spear who is now
\nat Willon. We hear that Miss Bragg is sick
\nat her home in Lincolnville but no word comes
\ndirectly from her. What more can we do?
\nIf I don\u2019t hear from Miss Curtis today I
\nwill write to Mrs. Mann and send this even-
\ning. It is so strange<\/span> that the girls don\u2019t re-
\nspond. We called on Miss Meader and Miss
\nSmith. The latter sends <\/del>sent me word when she
\nreturned the \u201cdocument\u201d that she was thorough-
\nly in sympathy with our undertaking but thought
\nit not advisable<\/span> to sign under the circumstances.
\nShe sent money to help us.<\/p>\n

Miss Meader read the protest and \u201cad-
\nmired\u201d but will not sign. She \u201cnever<\/span> be-<\/p>\n

lieved in co-education.\u201d The college girls \u201care
\nwoman\u2019s-rightsy\u2019 and strong-minded and they
\nwant to vote !\u201d \u201cThey do such dreadful things
\ntoo!\u201d go to class-suppers with the boys, have Sigma Kappa suppers
\nin a public dining-room and when they have
\na chaperone it is a woman<\/span>!\u201d Alice asked
\nher if she thought they would be likely to have
\na man<\/span> for a chaperone. We got thoroughly
\ndisgusted there. She said the most exasper-
\nating things right to our faces. She says
\nthe \u201ctown girls look down on the college girls\u201d.
\nBy \u201ctown girls\u201d she means the set composed
\nof Helen [Plaisted?], Franny [Philbrick] and May El-
\nden etc. Mrs. Hanson was exceedingly amused
\nwhen I told her about it. Of course we \u201cstood
\nup\u201d for the college girls and \u201cwinged words\u201d
\nflew about in a lively manner. I don\u2019t be-
\nlieve we’ll any of us call there again.<\/p>\n

Miss Leland writes \u201cIf I am to go through
\nlife lacking in modesty because of my college
\ncourse, I am surely in the company of the select.<\/span>”<\/p>\n

Well, that is the way the matter stands<\/p>\n

now. If you can do anything to \u201crelieve the situa-
\ntion\u201d, let me know soon. Please thank your mother
\nfor her information about Mr. Colby. Prof. Hall
\nsays he knows of no benefactor to the college who
\nwas not a friend of co-education. I think Dr.
\nSmall is [sore] on that point.<\/p>\n

If any new names appear, I will inform you
\nsoon.<\/p>\n

Hastily but sincerely, and abnormally<\/span>,
\nas Bertha says,
\nMary L. Carver<\/p>\n\n

\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Written in margin: Don’t have Sophia telegraph unless she will sign.] Waterville, Sept. 12. \u201990. Dear Miss Coburn, Your note written from Brunswick was not received till last evening at the same time with the one written from your home. Had I known that you were to go through W-, I should cer- tainly have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14669,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/705\/revisions\/14669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}