Correspondence and receipts for purchases made on Gertrude Bass Warner's behalf [f2] [019]
Item
Title
Correspondence and receipts for purchases made on Gertrude Bass Warner's behalf [f2] [019]
Author
Ferguson, John C. (John Calvin), 1866-1945
Recipient
Warner, Gertrude Bass, 1863-1951
Date
1944-03-29
Identifier
UA022_b005_f003_139_142
Description
Correspondence between Gertrude Bass Warner and John Calvin Ferguson
Transcript:
The Devon
70 West 55th St.
New York
March 29, 1944
My dear Gertrude,
Your telegram duly reached me and I replied at once you should make your dentist [?] appointments and that we could make plans for my visit after your dentistry was finished. After your invitation to visit you first came my plans were complicated by the passing of my third sister at the age of 85. My second sister had passed shortly before Mary and I reached home on the “Gripsholm” at 87. We have been planning for their internment but have not yet settled upon dates. Furthermore my brother in Florida who is 82 is not at all well and his wife has been critically ill. All of these circumstances have combined to make it inconvenient for me to carry out my original intention of spending April with you and when your telegram arrived I did not feel justified in holding out hopes to you of coming in the immediate future so that there seemed no reason for you not attending to you dentistry first and having my visit at a subsequent date. It may be possible therefore that I shall see you in the East before I am able to pay you a visit in Eugene. After your dentistry in Boston is finished you may be able to spend some time with us here in New York. We can get you a room here in this Hotel where we can be near.
Mary is busy with her work in the United China Relief and I have been making some addresses. Every one [sic] is as busy as bees and there is more or less of confusion both in plans and their creation.
Mary joins in much love to you and in the hope that we shall see you soon,
Yours affectionately
John
End of transcript.
Transcribed by Tom Fischer.
Transcript:
The Devon
70 West 55th St.
New York
March 29, 1944
My dear Gertrude,
Your telegram duly reached me and I replied at once you should make your dentist [?] appointments and that we could make plans for my visit after your dentistry was finished. After your invitation to visit you first came my plans were complicated by the passing of my third sister at the age of 85. My second sister had passed shortly before Mary and I reached home on the “Gripsholm” at 87. We have been planning for their internment but have not yet settled upon dates. Furthermore my brother in Florida who is 82 is not at all well and his wife has been critically ill. All of these circumstances have combined to make it inconvenient for me to carry out my original intention of spending April with you and when your telegram arrived I did not feel justified in holding out hopes to you of coming in the immediate future so that there seemed no reason for you not attending to you dentistry first and having my visit at a subsequent date. It may be possible therefore that I shall see you in the East before I am able to pay you a visit in Eugene. After your dentistry in Boston is finished you may be able to spend some time with us here in New York. We can get you a room here in this Hotel where we can be near.
Mary is busy with her work in the United China Relief and I have been making some addresses. Every one [sic] is as busy as bees and there is more or less of confusion both in plans and their creation.
Mary joins in much love to you and in the hope that we shall see you soon,
Yours affectionately
John
End of transcript.
Transcribed by Tom Fischer.
Source
Gertrude Bass Warner Papers, 1879-1954
Repository
University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Institution
University of Oregon
Type
Text
Format
application/pdf
Rights
Rights Reserved - Free Access
Rights Holder
University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives