Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel

EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE II, 1940-1947

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TAGS: Edith Cold Correspondence II, 1940-1946 ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Glyn Morris ; Laurel House I fire ; Laurel House II construction ;

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CONTENTS: Edith Cold Correspondence II, 1940-1946 ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Glyn Morris ; Laurel House I fire ; education; Laurel House II construction ; students ; teachers ; library ; librarians ; Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges ; library studies ; youth guidance institute ; Western Union telegrams ; Harlan, KY ; train travel ; World War II ; church community ; memoranda ; fresh airers ; dictionaries ; teaching contract ;

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GALLERY – Edith Cold Correspondence II, 1940-1947
1940 CORRESPONDENCE

TRANSCRIPTION – Edith Cold Correspondence II, 1940-1946
1940 CORRESPONDENCE

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Ben Lomond, California
March 5, 1940

My dear Mr. Morris:
When I returned recently from a trip to southern California there was a letter from my sister, Bertha [Cold], awaiting me. Therein she mentioned the destruction of Laurel House which she had heard through some Pine Mountain girls. She said it came to her with the force of a personal loss.

I, too, felt grieved to hear of it. I am enclosing a small gift toward the new Laurel House. As you know I am not earning now and this is simply to make concrete my sympathy for the school in its loss.

This is the time of year when you make your plans for the working staff for the coming year. I need to tell you that I shall not be free even this coming year to join you at Pine Mountain. It is difficult for me to have to write this but I may not consider my personal desire. Things do come to those who wait and it may be that some time the door will open wide for me to return to Pine Mountain. In the mean time be assured of my continued interest and good will.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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March 11, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond
California

Dear Miss Cold:
Strangely enough – I had just been thinking about you when your letter of March 5th arrived.

Thank you for your generous gift for Pine Mountain. We were terribly shocked by the loss of Laurel House but are looking forward now to a newer and better building.

I was just going to write you telling you that in my plans for next year I had included you. I am terribly sorry that you cannot come back next year. If you change your mind in the very near future won’t you write me?

Excuse this short note.
Cordially yours,
[unsigned]

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April 12, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond
California

Dear Miss Cold:
Although your letter of March 5th seems quite final I am still hopeful that something might turn up to make it possible for you to come to Pine Mountain next year. I am writing this letter to tell you that I personally should like very much to have you come back. I am under the impression that you were held in very high esteem by the children whom you taught and I see evidences of your work and influence here even more clearly now than when you were here. I know that you accomplished much at Pine Mountain. I should be very happy if I knew that you were going to be with us this fall.

The Laurel House fire was, of course, a calamity but a new and better Laurel House ought to be completed by September.

I hope you will still think of Pine Mountain in your planning and if it is at all possible to consider coming back I hope you will do so.
Cordially yours,
[unsigned]

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Ben Lomond, California
April 23, 1940

My dear Mr. Morris:
A reply to the letter which I sent out has come. My sister will come to take my place here so that I may return to Pine Mountain in the fall.

This delay in my answer may have caused you some inconvenience. Should you have had to change your plans because of the delay I shall be able to understand that.
With cordial greetings,
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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April 29, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold:
Your letter of April 23rd has arrived during Mr. Morris’s absence from Pine Mountain. We are expecting him back in a few days.

I am happy that you are coming back to Pine Mountain in the fall and I know that Mr. Morris will be glad too. We have missed you this year.
Sincerely,
[unsigned]

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April 29, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond
California

Dear Miss Cold:
I am very glad that you have been able to arrange your plans so that you can come to Pine Mountain next fall. I know, too, that all here who know you will be glad. Gladys and I are especially happy.

For the most part your work will consist of teaching English but at this distance and due to other changes in the teaching staff I cannot give you any details. As soon as possible I shall write you further about this.

We are quite busy under the pressure of trying to get Laurel House finished by the time school opens and also to build another girls’ house, plans for which are not yet made. We know that Laurel House, however, will be quite attractive including all the good features of the old house with additionally nice things, and good accommodations for workers. It is to have a large living room opening right into the dining room and we are planning that both staff and students shall wait there together before meals.

I should like to mention that the salary is $70 together with maintenance. I hope this will be satisfactory.

You probably know that we have a new doctor and are building a house for him up near the Infirmary. He and his wife are both just starting out and are very enthusiastic about their new work.

Cordially yours,
[unsigned]

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Ben Lomond, California
April 21, 1940

My dear Mr. Morris:
It was my intention to await an air mail response to a letter which I wrote to my sister before acknowledging your communication of the twelfth of this month. There is a delay in the reply so I am writing you to let you know that a letter will be forthcoming before long in answer to your recent one.

I appreciated the kindly way in which you wrote.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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June 3, 1940

Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond
California

Dear Miss Cold:
I am wondering if you have had any training in library work which could be put to advantage in Pine Mountain. It seems we have all the qualifications necessary for membership in the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges but lack this one technical qualification. I am looking about to see how we can meet this standard but have found no one on our staff who has any library training.

May I ask you too, if you have not had any library training, whether you could find time at this late date to go to some school and get training this summer if the school is willing to help out with expenses? I don’t have the slightest idea that you could include such a jaunt as this in your plans but mention it only in case there is a possibility.

This is a busy week at Pine Mountain. We have already laid the foundations for the new Laurel House and I know that you will like it very much. I have announced that you are planning to return to Pine Mountain and we have heard much enthusiasm from your old students.
With best wishes,
Cordially yours,
[unsigned]

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Ben Lomond, California
June 11, 1940

My dear Mr. Morris:
Your letter of the third of this month came today. It was rather long on the way.

No, I have not had any library training. I once took the librarian examination in Cleveland and received the right to be employed by a library but that was long ago before library standards had special training in mind.

I shall set about to write to some of the institutions near here for information on summer library courses. I have no idea what library training involves. According to the replies that I shall receive I’ll be able to tell whether I shall be able to attend such a course. You will hear from me later, therefore, with regard to it.

It is gracious on the part of the Pine Mountian students who knew me to express pleasure in having me return there.

Kindly extend greetings to Mrs. Morris.
Cordially yours,
[signed] Edith Cold

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Box B
Ben Lomond, California
June 22, 1940

Mr. Glyn Morris, Director
Pine Mountain Settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky

Dear Mr. Morris:
Yesterday I received a reply from my inquiry about courses in library work at the state institution situated at San Jose. No such courses are offered at Mills College.

The registrar at San Jose delayed considerably in answering and stated that a catalogue was being sent but I have not yet received it. The summer school opens on Monday, the 24th of this month. I shall go there and make tentative arrangements. then I shall return here till I hear from you to proceed. Since no catalogue has come I can give no idea of the cost of the courses nor of the price for the room and board. I shall endeavor to come back to Ben Lomond for the week-ends should it prove feasible to take the courses.

Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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June 26, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond
California

Dear Miss Cold:
This little note is to say that Mr. Morris is still away from Pine Mountain but we are expecting him back this week-end so that you should have some word from him in a few days.

Our first session of summer camps has started at Pine Mountain and the campus is alive with youngsters from Cawood.
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Secretary to Mr. Morris

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Catholic Women’s Center
San Jose, California
June 24, 1940.

My dear Mr. Morris:
Today I registered here at the State College for three library courses, the maximum that I am permitted to take at one session of the school. The courses are described as follows:
History and Organization of Libraries
Cataloging of Classification
Book Appreciation

I wished to take the course in Reference and Bibliography in place of the one named “Book Appreciation” but I was not permitted because of not having had the previous courses.

I tried to find out what the three above-named courses would do for me as regards a permit to do library work but got little satisfaction from the one in charge of that department. It is but a beginning towards a state credential in library work. At the close of the summer session, though, I hope to have earned credits to the amount of six units on the above courses.

It may be that what I have entered upon here will not satisfy the conditions as put forth by the…

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2.
…Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. You must be the judge of that. I have entered here on a tentative basis. I await a reply to this letter to see if you think it advisable for me to stay and proceed with the courses.

The cost is somewhat as follows:
Registration $21.00
Room for 1 mo. $20.00
Estimated Board for 1 mo. $20.00

Yours sincerely,
Edith Cold

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Ben Lomond, California
July 6, 1940

My dear Mr. Morris:
Your telegram has come. I had made tentative arrangements with the college to remain till I should hear from you. Now I shall continue the three courses till they shall be completed.

There are students in the library courses from a number of states, some even being from Ohio and one as far away as Virginia. As San Jose is not far from Ben Lomond, I come home for the week-ends.

Thanks to Fern Hall Hayes for her letters to me during your absence.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

[handwritten] P.S. Kindly have Fern send me a statement about the time of school opening in September.

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July 15, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond
California

Dear Miss Cold:
Mr. Morris has asked that I tell you the opening dates of school. We are having a youth guidance institute from August 25th to 31st and I believe Mr. Morris is anxious to have as many staff members here for that as can possibly come. Those not already here for the Institute are expected to be at Pine Mountain on the fifth of September in preparation for the opening of school on Saturday, September 7th.

I am enclosing a preliminary announcement of the Institute.
Sincerely,
[unsigned]

[cold_b_1940_017.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten Western Union telegram.

[header] Charge to the account of PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL

September 2, 1940
Miss Edith Cold
Ben Lomond
California

Opening postponed to twelfth. Your arrival any time convenient [indecipherable].
Glyn Morris

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Ben Lomond, California
August 20, 1940

My dear Mr. Morris:

My return to Pine mountain is planned so that I shall reach Harlan on the L and N train on Friday, the sixth of September, at 7:55 a.m. That will be the morning train in from Corbin.

The above schedule will hold unless because of a delay in trains I miss connections.

Should something occur here before I leave to make it necessary to change the time I shall write you of it.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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November 27 [no year]

Dear Mr. Morris:
These boys and girls will be growing into a world order even yet more closely knit than it is today. The airplane, the radio, and inventions yet to come will bring all earth’s regions into even a nearer relation to them than they are now.

You and I know that the present conflict is due to the persistence in methods and ways of living which no longer fit in a world conditioned by the results of mechanism. Just as individuals are victims of the mal-adjusted forces in society, so today whole peoples are thus involved. They need the sympathetic consideration of all of us who by the grace of God can look upon the condition of an individual or that of a whole people in an objective way.

It seems the small conquered nations of Europe plus Finland are facing the debate as to whether we of our surplus shall come to the aid of these hungry or whether we shall remain inactive. Both sides are being represented in the press.

I am thinking that you and I being what we are cannot personally be indifferent to this controversy. Are our girls and boys here too immature to have a part in it? They are facing a world neighborhood. Will they be reared by us to be mal-adjusted in it? Is it too early for them to have such a question of starvation of a part of the world family brought home to them? Are they not even now capable of following the arguments pro and con and of coming to some personal decision on this matter? The order of self-centered nationalism will be passing in their day. Is there any issue touching our Pine Mountain life today more vital than this one?

Since our thoughts have been directed toward the matter of a church community, I have been pursued by a consciousness of what these boys and girls have lacked. For nine months of the year it has been school, community group is school, and there has been no experience in the voluntary activities connected with a church group. Such experience gives training of the individual conscience and leads to personal decisions. The matter as to whether children in Norway or in Finland shall starve is a matter of an individual decision. No conscience can work for another there.

As a community we are approaching the Christmas manger. Have the starving in Europe a relation to that in the lives of our boys and girls as well as the cry of the needy in our “Hollows”? I have not mentioned this to others. I have felt the need of writing this to you.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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GALLERY – Edith Cold Correspondence II, 1940-1946
1941 – 1943, 1945 CORRESPONDENCE

TRANSCRIPTION – Edith Cold Correspondence II, 1940-1947
1941-1943, 1945 CORRESPONDENCE

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[header} MEMORANDUM From the Director’s Desk

February 6, 1941
Miss Edith Cold

Dear Miss Cold:
Mr. Morris has suggested that we should have a list of the books needed in our library to add to our list of “needs.” Will you please let us have such a list?
Thank you very much.
[unsigned]

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May 2, 1941

Dear Miss Cold,
I wish to thank you and Miss Hackman and Mrs. Dodd for the very fine report on possible applications of your notes on “Putting our Folk Religion to Work.”
[unsigned]

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Postmark, BEN [indecipherable,] 1941, CALIF

Miss Barbara Spellman (sic)
Pine Mt. Settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky

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Ben Lomond, California
August 8, 1941.

Dear Miss [Barbara] Spellman (sic):
Kindly have whoever looks after the mail no longer have any forwarded to the above address but have all kept until I come.
Yours sincerely,
Edith Cold

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June 9, 1941
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold:
I have been able to make arrangements to take care of the boys for the rest of the summer, so it will not be necessary for you to think of this any longer. I have a feeling that you will be glad to hear this. It was kind of you to consider it and I hope that next summer it will be possible for you to stay at Pine Mountain an additional month.

We should be glad to have you come back two weeks early to work at the library if you wish, and shall be looking forward to seeing you then. We hope you have a good vacation.
Cordially yours,
[unsigned]

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August 7, 1941
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold:

The date for the opening of school has been set for the 3rd of September, with the old students returning on the 1st, the new ones on the 2nd. I hope it will be convenient for you to return on August 29th, so that you will be able to come to a teachers’ meeting on the morning of the 30th.

We’re about to wave goodbye to the “fresh airers,” who leave tomorrow. They put on a dramatization of Sleeping Beauty last night which you would have enjoyed. They wrote the play themselves, and at one point seemed to lose all time sense, when they allowed the Prince to waken the Princess about two seconds after she had fallen into her sleep! One hundred years never passed so quickly!

It’s very hot here today — so much so that fall seems a long way off — and also thoughts of the opening of school.
Cordially yours,
[unsigned]

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Postmark: MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, AUG 16, 1941, 4;30 PM.
Mr. Glyn Morris, director
Pine Mountain Settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky

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Cincinnati, Ohio
August 16, ’41

My dear Mr. Morris:
Unless the unexpected happens, I shall be at the R.R. station in Harlan at 8 o’clock the morning of Wednesday, the 20th of this month. I am taking the night train from Cincinnati. In case there is delay in meeting me I’ll wait a while at the station.
Sincerely, Edith Cold

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Ben Lomond, California
August 13, 1941.

Dear Mr. Morris,
Today I start eastward. Because of a stop-over in Cincinnati, I am not yet sure whether I shall leave for Harlan on a day or on a night train. My present plan is to arrive in Harlan about the 20th of the month. I shall send more definite word from Cincinnati.

Thanks to you and Mrs. Morris for the greeting from Virginia Beach. It gave me pleasure. I’ll look up the article in “Fortune” that you referred to.
Yours sincerely,
Edith Cold

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September 27, 1941

Dear Mr. Morris:
I [am] writing you to lay before you the matter of dictionaries for the library and for the houses.

As you know, the best dictionary as yet published which is suitable for our beginning classes is Thorndike’s Junior Dictionary. Of that there are eleven copies in the reading room; one having been supplied by Mrs. Wilson and the other ten having come as a gift from a friend of Miss Hackman.

The reading room also has a number of copies of small Webster dictionaries and a few old copies of the Standard. Considering our children’s educational background, these are not useful to them. Too often do they define words in a vocabulary yet more unfamiliar than the word they attempt to make clear. The print, too, is too fine.

So popular is the Thorndike dictionary that all classes above the newly entering one also wish to use the eleven copies.

An appeal has come to me from two of the houses for dictionaries so that at least some of the children may do a little study there. The need at Far House seemed especially urgent for there is not room in the library evenings for all who might wish to use dictionaries and Far House had not one. I have now given four of the old, poor dictionaries to Far House and one copy of a new one that came in. I wish Far House and Big Log could have a few Thorndikes on hand.

Twenty-five copies of Thorndike for the reading room would not be too many. I believe the price is a dollar a copy.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Edith Cold

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[header] THE OFFICE

October 1, 1941
Dear Miss Cold,
I have your note about the dictionaries. I can’t promise anything definite but we are going to work on it.
[unsigned]

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January 7 [no year]

Dear Mr. Morris:
Apropos of the discussion about the rate to put down for room and board at Pine Mountain I wish to make it known that I would not protest if the figure be put at forty per month. Since, however, there seems to be sincere questioning of the fitness of that estimate, I propose a compromise, namely, thirty-five per month.
[signed} Sincerely,
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1942_002.jpg] Handwritten postcard, address side.

Postmark: Ben Lomo[indecipherable] CAL

Mrs. William D. Webb
Pine Mountain Settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky

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Ben Lomond, Calif.
August 17 [no year]

Dear Mrs. Webb:
Kindly hold for me at the office any parcel post packages which may arrive before I do.

If any mail comes for me after the 21st of this month, I would no longer have it forwarded.
Cordially yours,
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1942_003.jpg] Typewritten contract.

[header] PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL, INC. Pine Mountain, Harlan County, Kentucky.
Glyn A. Morris, Director
C.N. Manning, Treasurer, Lexington, Ky.

April 11, 1942

Dear Miss Cold:
The Board of Trustees of the Pine Mountain Settlement School has authorized me to employ you as Teacher in the Academic Department for the school year beginning September 1, 1942, and ending May 31, 1943. In payment for your services, which will include teaching English, being Librarian, and such other teaching duties as may be reasonably requested, you will receive $75.00 per month; meals in the Laurel House dining room; room, including heat and light; a reasonably limited amount of such laundry as you care to send to the laundry; four garments ironed per week at the laundry; together with a vacation of two weeks with pay at Christmas time, beginning and ending with such dates as shall be announced by the School. Also you will be released from your regular duties each Saturday and Sunday [The rest of this sentence is crossed out in red pencil: “together with two weekends each semester, for which you will sign up with the staff committee chosen by the staff for this purpose”].

This letter, a duly signed copy of which is retained by you, is our mutual contract.
Sincerely yours,
[signed] Glyn Morris
Director

Signature: [signed] Edith Cold
Signature of Chairman of Personnel Committee: [signed] Evelyn K. Wells

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Ben Lomond, Calif.
August 27, ’42

Dear Mr. [Arthur] Dodd:
This is to let you know that if the train schedule made out for me holds I shall arrive at the Harlan R.R. station at 5 P.M. on Saturday, September 5.
Yours sincerely,
Edith Cold

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[cold_b_1943_001.jpg] Typewritten contract.

[header] PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL, INC. Pine Mountain, Harlan County, Kentucky.
Acting Director, William D. Webb
Director, Lt. Glyn A. Morris, Chaplain, U.S. Army
Treasurer, C.N. Manning, Lexington, Kentucky

April 20, 1943

Dear Miss Cold:
The Board of Trustees of the Pine Mountain Settlement School has authorized me to employ you as Teacher in the Academic Department for the school year beginning September 1, 1943, and ending May 31, 1944. In payment for your services, which will include teaching English, being Librarian, and such other teaching duties as may be reasonably requested, you will receive *$80.00 [$75.00 is crossed out] per month; meals in the Laurel House dining room; room, including heat and light; a reasonably limited amount of such laundry as you care to send to the laundry; four garments ironed per week at the laundry; together with a vacation of two weeks with pay at Christmas time, beginning and ending with such dates as shall be announced by the School. Also you will be released from your regular duties each Saturday and Sunday,

This letter, a duly signed copy of which is retained by you, is our mutual contract.
Sincerely yours,
[signed] Wm D. Webb
Acting Director

Signature: [signed] Edith Cold
Signature of Chairman of Personnel Committee: [signed] Evelyn K. Wells
[notation] *board meeting April 26, 1943 made this increase.

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[header] THE OFFICE

Telephone message – 9/2/43 4:20 P.M.

Miss Cold cannot arrive in the morning and could give no idea as to when we may expect her –
[indecipherable signature]

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[Notation in upper left] “Ack-card-8/21 Meet Fri or leave word [indecipherable] ww.”

Ben Lomond, Calif.
August 13, 1943

Dear Mr. Webb:
Thank you so much for writing me such a delightful page concerning things as they are at Pine Mountain. How pleased I am to learn that this year the crop have been and are abundant.

I wish Miss Heckner would still be there when school opens for I would so gladly have a chat with her.

My reservation from San Francisco to Chicago is made for Monday evening, August the 30th. I would like to have started a few days earlier but did not wish to…

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…be a civilian doing week-end travel. Also my brother-in-law will be able to take me to the city by my waiting till Monday. I should be in Harlan the morning of Friday, September 3. If trains are not too late and I make connections, I would be taking the night train from Cincinnati to Corbin to Harlan. I believe that train arrives in Harlan at about 8 o’clock A.M.

With expectations of a happy return and cordial greetings to Mrs. Webb,
Yours sincerely,
Edith Cold

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Box B
Ben Lomond, Calif
July 18, 1943

Dear friend:
Kindly send me on the enclosed card the address of Mr. Jesse Burden, a former worker at the school and now in Tennessee.

I am sending a package to Mrs. Keith. It is intended for her use in the science department. Kindly hold it for her till she comes.
Sincerely,
Edith Cold

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1944 – NOT FOUND

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Box B
Ben Lomond, Calif.
July 31, 1945

Dear Mr. [H.R.S.] Benjamin,
The last day of this month prompts me to write you of the plan for return to Pine Mountain. Doubtless you know that a reservation for a berth can now be made but five days in advance of departure. I hope to get off by the 23rd or the 24th of August. In case I fail of getting a sleeper reservation, I plan to stop off twice so as to get a night’s sleep. The hotels have been written to. I have in mind your request that workers be back about a week in advance of September 2. Should I not be able to affect that, you will understand that there were difficulties on the way.

With cordial greetings to yourself and to Mrs. Benjamin.

Yours sincerely,
Edith Cold

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August 6, 1945
Miss Edith Cold
Box B
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold:
I have received your letter of July 31. Thank you for your information regarding your plans for returning. You are leaving early enough to arrive by the date set in the spring unless something unforeseen happens. We hope if possible to have the workers together for the week of the 26th so that we can get preliminary details cleared up.

I trust you are having a restful summer. The past week here has been rainy after a very dry month. A fine garden is resulting from the rain. Bean-canning is behind us. Saur Kraut (sic) and pickles are in progress and tomatoes are yet to come.

Mrs. Benjamin and Betty are very well and look forward to seeing you before long.
Very sincerely yours,
[unsigned]
H.R.S. Benjamin

HRSB*dan

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1946 – NO CORRESPONDENCE

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See Also:

BERTHA COLD Biography
BERTHA COLD CORRESPONDENCE

EDITH COLD Biography
EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE I, 1935-1939
EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE III, 1947-1958
EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE IV, 1959-1963

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