LEXINE BAIRD Correspondence II

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff
Series 14: MEDICAL
Lexine Baird
Correspondence II, 1934-1937, 1957

Lexine Baird, Marguerite Emerson, Arthur Dodd, Alice Cobb (?), (?). [cobb_alice_004.jpg]

TAGS: Lexine Baird Correspondence II, Lexine W. Baird, medical, nurses, Glyn Morris

LEXINE BAIRD Correspondence II, 1934-1957

Nurse 1932-1936
Worker at Medical Settlement 1934-1935

Contents: 1934-1937

[NOTE: Letters from Lexine Baird are handwritten originals. Letters from PMSS staff are carbon copies of typewritten letters for the PMSS office files. Therefore, they are unsigned.]

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July 27, 1934. To Glyn Morris [Director] from Baird in Fletchers, NC. Agrees to work at the Medical Settlement; travel plans.

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July 28, 1934. To Morris from Baird. Asks for later arrival due to her father’s illness; asks for her bank statement.

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July 31, 1934. To Baird from [unsigned], likely from Morris. Sends condolences for father’s illness; allows her to stay home.

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September 17, 1934. To Baird from [unsigned], likely from Morris. Assures her that her PMSS position is secure. “I feel that you have a wonderful opportunity to keep alive a good feeling which exists between the school and our neighbors down the creek.”

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Notation indicates “Sept. [n.d.], 1934.” To Morris from Baird. Explains why she felt insecure in her position. Invited Mr. & Mrs. Morris and Miss [Evelyn] Wells for a meal.

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December 6, 1934. To Baird from [unsigned. Notation indicates “Alice Cobb.”] Makes suggestions for Christmas at Big Laurel. Mentions Miss Merrill, Stella Taylor, Alice Turner, Bess Lewis, Holmes.

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May 18, 1935. To Baird from [unsigned], possibly Alice Cobb. Glad that Baird has work for Chester Turner to reduce his school debt but advises that he not stay at Medical Settlement.

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June 17, 1935. To Alice [Cobb] from Baird in Savannah, GA. Baird appreciates hearing from Alice and also Mrs. Powell; Asked about Merle(?).

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June 27, 1935. To Morris from Baird in Savannah, GA. Asked to stay on vacation longer.

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July 3, 1935. To Baird from [unsigned]. Complies with Baird’s request to stay longer in Savannah due to “sad circumstances.”

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Picture postcard of “Biltmore Mansion Showing Lily Ponds, ‘In the Land of the Sky.’”

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[N.d. Reverse side of postcard for Biltmore House, Asheville, NC.] To Morris from Baird: Provides date and time of arrival in Harlan.

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January 5, 1936. To Baird from [unsigned]. Expressed thanks to Baird for her letter and information about Miss Bicknell. The new [Girls’] Industrial Building is in use now. The new curriculum involves work in the morning, school afterward. “Christmas was unusually pleasant…nearly 200 at the New Year’s country party.”

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[N.d.] To Morris from Baird. With Morris’ okay, Baird will accompany “Lady Shera” and Mr. [Samuel] Winfrey to Dr. Bailey’s; Georgia will look after the house. Virgil Bogg’s son appears to have pneumonia & asks Morris to send him home.

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January 26, [notation indicates “c. 1936.”] To Baird from [unsigned]. Gives permission to Baird to accompany Mrs. (Alice Carter] Shera to Harlan. Asks that Baird avoids going to the “moving-picture show in Harlan on Sunday” due to possible criticism from the community.

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April 25, 1936. To Baird from [unsigned]. Asks Baird to look into the adhesive tape patches on the girl’s clothing, in case it’s Infirmary tape.

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May 7, 1936. To Baird from Morris. Asks about Mr. Callahan and whether he should spend some time at the Infirmary.

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February 18, 1937. To Morris from Baird at Mars Hill, NC. Passes on information she received from Alice Boggs about “Black” Henry Creech who is “about to start a lot of mess again.”

I must confess I have missed everything about Pine Mountain heaps, especially the woods and everything therein, but I have had a grand time there. … If ever I can do anything for the school you know I am always ready.

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February 23, 1937. To Baird from [unsigned]. Thanks Baird for the information. Hopes she will attend the Knoxville conference.

Contents: 1957

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July 17, 1957. To “Friends” from Baird in Mars Hill, NC. Asks for any photos of Aunt Jude Turner and the sheep.

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July 19, 1957. [Notation: “Nurse here 1932-34, nurse Med. Sett. 34-35, nurse here 35-36.”] To Baird from Burton Rogers, Director. Will send photo of Aunt Jude and the sheep at a charge of 50 cents. “Many people in the community remember you, and we have had three or four Lexines in school here, living proof of their parents’ fondness for you!”

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July 23, 1957. To Rogers from Baird at Mars Hill, NC. Sent thanks and payment for photo. “The year I went to Medical Settlement to help them, among the fine gifts I received Aunt Jude brought me a hen and fifteen chickens! As soon as the chickens were weaned I returned the hen for she was a pet of Aunt Jude’s. I’ve thought so often of Aunt Jude and can never picture her growing old.”… Will be a St. Genevieve’s in Asheville this fall … “Some of those Lexines should have Alice also as their name for dear Alice Cobb held the flash light for me so many times.”

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August 7, 1957. To Baird from Rogers. Sent receipt & thanked her for her letter. Visited “Alice Cobb in Huckleberry, where she is for the summer, outside Hendersonville, N.C.”

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Photo of Lexine Baird in sepia.

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Photo of Lexine Baird in black and white.