{"id":782,"date":"2012-07-19T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-lowcoburn\/?page_id=782"},"modified":"2022-01-29T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T23:19:40","slug":"transcription-coburn-foster-51906","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/transcription-coburn-foster-51906\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcriptions of letters from Louise Coburn to Elizabeth Foster, 5\/13 and 5\/25, 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa<br \/>\nWashington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mrs. Foster,<\/p>\n<p>I have been sick in<br \/>\nbed for three days with grip,<br \/>\nso please excuse a brief reply.<\/p>\n<p>We had expected to be home<br \/>\nbefore this, and I am disappointed<br \/>\nnot to be. Now it is not<br \/>\npossible to tell when we<br \/>\nwill come. By all means,<br \/>\nI would have a meeting of<br \/>\nthe Board, and arrange for<br \/>\nthe Basket Meeting. I should<\/p>\n<p>think it a very good plan to<br \/>\nwrite Mrs. Stevens to come.<\/p>\n<p>I shall certainly not be home in<br \/>\ntime for the Board Meeting, but<br \/>\nhope to for the Basket Meeting,<br \/>\nand shall surely go, if possible.<br \/>\nI cannot tell now when we<br \/>\nshall be in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Yours very truly,<br \/>\nLouise H. Coburn<br \/>\nMay 13, 1906<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Iowa<br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>My dear Mrs. Foster,<br \/>\nIt is a disappointment<br \/>\nto me that I shall not be<br \/>\nable to be at the Basket<br \/>\nMeeting. Mother is still in<br \/>\nbed, although more comfortable,<br \/>\nand it will [seemingly?] be<br \/>\na week or two before we can<br \/>\nreturn to Maine. I had<br \/>\n[?] a bad attack of Grip<br \/>\nmyself, and have not got<\/p>\n<p>my strength back yet, but<br \/>\nmother\u2019s was more serious,<br \/>\nand she gains slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Grace will not go home<br \/>\nuntil after we do.<\/p>\n<p>I think your program<br \/>\nas outlined very attractive<br \/>\nand I am sure you will<br \/>\nhave an interesting meeting.<br \/>\nI am so glad you are<br \/>\nable to be in the [work?]<br \/>\nagain. Please give<br \/>\nmy very cordial greeting<br \/>\nto the ladies, and<\/p>\n<p>express to them my<br \/>\nregret at being unable<br \/>\nto be present.<\/p>\n<p>Mother wishes to send<br \/>\nher love, [and?] you<\/p>\n<p>yours most affectionately<br \/>\nLouise H. Coburn<\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2012-07-19T20:08:05+00:00\">April<\/del> May 25, 1906<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-782\" data-postid=\"782\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-782 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Washington D.C. Dear Mrs. Foster, I have been sick in bed for three days with grip, so please excuse a brief reply. We had expected to be home before this, and I am disappointed not to be. Now it is not possible to tell when we will come. By all means, I would [&hellip;]<\/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\/782"}],"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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}