-23 May 1927. D.M. Robinson. Provincial Normal School, Vancouver
-27 May 1927. E.A. Munro. Prince of Wales High School, Corporation of Point Grey, Vancouver
-15 Jun. 1927. D.M. Robinson. Vancouver Normal School
-19 Mar. 1942. A.R. Lord. Provincial Normal School, Vancouver

Series consists of letters of reference from the Prince of Wales High School, Corporation of Point Grey, Vancouver and from the Vancouver Normal School (also referred to as the Provincial Normal School). Also included is a certificate from the Vancouver Normal School.

Includes Flower and Outside. 2 copies and subscription material.

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the life and literary career of Carol Coates, as well as that of her brother William H. Coates (1899-1976). It includes correspondence, designs, printed material and clippings. It also contains the typescript of tributes to W.H. Coates during memorial services in 1976 as well as the typescript of Carol Coates' "Invitation to Mood" (1974-1975). Accrual consists draft poems, both typed and handwritten, and handwritten school notes from a class Coates attended at UBC.

Written about a friend's former incarnation.

The series consists of letters sent or received by Carol Coates. Letters received were authored by Coates' family members, friends, and admirers of her poetry. Letters sent are predominantly Christmas cards. The series features both original documents and photocopies.

Series consists of two cloth bound volumes containing diaries in the form of letters. Many letters are written to Dante and others to friends or relatives such as Bertha, Sally, Loraine and Roy. Some letters appear to be drafts of business correspondence.

Series consists of reviews of plays attended and books read. Quotations and bibliographic references are given for the book reviews. These notebooks include notes of events and miscellaneous jottings.

Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates. 19 Jun. 1958. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates. [195?] The Daily Telegraph
Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates. 20 Jun. 1958, The Times
Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates. [195?]. UBC Alumni Chronicle
Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates. Dec. 1958 The Architectural Review
Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates. [19-?]

Series consists of two newspaper clippings from The Church Observer dated 15 Sep.1945 regarding the death of Mrs Harper Havelock Coates (Sarah Agnes Wintemute Coates). It also includes obituaries of Dr. Wells Wintemute Coates from various American and British newspapers, the UBC Alumni Chronicle, and an account of his architectural achievements in The Architectural Review of Dec.1958.

Haven
Puzzle
Sorrow
Meridian day
Liu
Church of the crossroads
Orchid
Dress
So long had my hands
Disorder
Perhaps
The bond
Flower gift
Token
Hands
Pantomime
To a poem
Trouble
The knife
Soliloquy
To Hermione
The dance
Crown

One word
The dance
Impatience
On a returned book
Hands
Midnight
Hospital night
Peace
Magnolia
Temple bell
Alma mater
Treasures
The class
Korean dancer
Ashes
Purchase
The question: Kumozan
Kumozan
Four poems: Bushido 1937
Recruits
Troop train
I cannot bear
White boxes
Japanese April
Summer morning
Summer evening
Flower master
Flower arrangement
Temple quiet
Dragonflies
Gift
Salutation
Puzzle
Sorrow
Meridian day mid-Pacific
Farewell Lei: Honolulu
Church of the crossroads: Honolulu
So long had my hands
Disorder
Christmas card
Flower gift: to F.H.
Autumn's bride
Words
Lacquer waves
Tea party
Time
Poems from the silk-bound illustrated edition of poems written in Japan 193-? [listed in
3-8]
Vignettes for Lee: Inspired by his gift
Kumozan
Takayama
Tokyo sudden storm
Shinto shrine
The Ise shrine
Joy browsers

Genealogical notes on the Coates and Wintemute families

Willson Coates' lecture to the Women's College Chapel on 7 Apr. 1943

List of published works by Willson Coates dated 12 Jul. 1976

Typescript copies of letters from Willson Coates to Carol Coates dated 18 Dec. 1969, 27 Feb. 1970 and 13 Aug. 1976

Series consists of one folder containing genealogical notes on the Coates and Wintemute families, Willson Coates' lecture to the Women's College Chapel on 7 Apr. 1943, writings by Willson Coates dated 12 Jul. 1976 and typescript copies of letters from Willson to Carol Coates dated 1969, 1970 and 1976.

Series consists of a small notebook containing handwritten copies of Japanese Hokku poems and a notebook with the title page "Poems for the day."

One word
Lacquer waves
Impatience
Time
Earth
Death
Disappointment
Fresh sprit
Hands
Statue
The fourth dimension
To Shakespeare
Paulowa
Days on board ship
Tea party
September 1930
The letter
Incongruity
The secret
On a new hat
At noon
Chap book
Verse
Last letter
The lone lamp
Triolet
To Roy
Laziness
Understanding
Ecstasy
Separation
September 5th
Memory
Sympathy
To Hazel Gorham
Easter bunny
Playfully, on a picture
On a returned book
Takarabune
Jewels

Miko no matsubara
One word
Autumn's bride
Revelry
Greeting
Lacquer waves
Prows
Sylvia
Moonflower
Dragonflies
Magnolia
Rejuvenation
Temple quiet
Temple bell
May
Spring
Japanese April
Takarabune

Task: For some in Class X 1949
To the tenth class of the Rudolf Steiner School, Edinburgh, 1949
The trap
Comment for Michael Calthop: Edinburgh
Jade piece
For Michael: September 11,1950
Crevice
Fossils
Answer
On the death of a young conscript
Finale
Autumn ride
On Stephen Spender reading his anthology
Poem for Christ's Day 1951
Design
Decision
Paris
Eiffel Tower
La Sainte-Chapelle
Crypt at Chartres
Chartres
Leaving poem for Class XII 1952
Christmas card 1952
Pattern
Timetable
Interlude
Tides
I call you across the deserts
Query
Each night
Spring afternoon
Potential
Christmas poem 1953
Christmas 1954
For the Vienna choristers
Poem for Penelope in answer to hers
Grace for meals
Figurine
Protest against your hands
Walk in Forest Row: New Year's Eve 1955
Poem for Michael Cocks: Seed poem for Michael
Not carapace but chrysalis
Goddess and madonna
Still in the distance is love
No weapon serves
Empty heart
Tell it to go
To L.T.
I know they say
Moments there are
Confusion
Kinship is proved
August 9, 1956: Poem for Sonke
Blow trumpets
Letter to Sonke
The miracle
Fulfillment
Impossible
Words
Book of poems
Poems
For Ned Pratt: I, II and III
Birthday card
Answer
Barometer
Surfaces
Withholding
Danger

Feather
Blackbird
Holiday
Dawn Chorus
The cry
The call
Sparrows at the Serpentine [Note: entitled "Bird Poems" on the title page.]

Series consists of 11 notebooks containing handwritten final drafts of poems. There are few corrections or annotations in these notebooks. This series also includes presentation copies of poems in volumes made of boards with silk padded covers and cardboard cases. One volume is untitled and within it, each poem is handwritten in ink facing Japanese prints. Two presentation copies of Fancy Free, 1938, are included in this series. The second version has a typed frontispiece: "Of this edition of Fancy Free by Carol Coates, two hundred and fifty copies only have been printed. This Chap-book is a product of the Ryerson Press, Toronto, Canada, 1939."
Accrual adds to the existing series four notebooks of handwritten final drafts of poems. Enumerated Book II through Book V, each volume is begun with a title page giving the dates of the poems and sometimes referring to other volumes containing typed or draft versions.

Rat race
Betrayal
Heart poison to-night
Hibernation
Outside
Winter morning
These words that I write
Caged
Words spoken
Poetry recital for Betty Mulcahy
Christopher: The dyslexic
Answer to advice: To Robert Gittings
For C. Day Lewis on his death: 29.5.72
To the publisher of poetry anthologies
Poem making
Parenthood
Said the tree
Spring Hokku
Cedar of Lebanon (Cedar Atlantis): Moor Park, July 1972
There is a stillness
Praise can come too late
Slavery
First meeting
The candle
Voice
Letter-poem
Words
Dilemma
Longing
Shy words
Words litany
Name
Flower
Tears
Shy
Fear can freeze
The pain
Many births, many deaths
Betrayal: The Blow
Cry
After sleep, Christ speaks to the heart
Words
Departure
The door
Dead
Brush with death
The dream
November morning
The wish
Thursday farewell: Eastern Orthodox Church
On the poems of 1972
To the poet Wen I-to
Holiday
Spring
Once
Incident in class
Dawn chorus
Experience
Secrets
Now and then
If you should try
Garret lodging in London
To myself on meeting a new friend through an enemy
Iceberg poems
Cedar Atlantis: II
The call
The birch trees
Cross-section: For Lee
For Lee: The grammarian
Rapport
Vacation postcard postscript
Blindness: On the mystery plays by Rudolf Steiner
For Lee: Joy
Lost Abby: Norfolk
For R.M.: Masseur
Concert
The proms
Slander
Acorn
Footnote to life
For Richard Austin's carnival

For Karl Schubert (met only once in 1948): The founder of Steiner curative education
For Sally: On pictures of beautiful British Columbia
For J.R.D.: Death day April 13th 1979
Childhood recollection: Summer Takayama, Japan
River at sunset
River geometry at Kew
Good deed: For D.R
The World at One
Learn, soul
The Maestro: Victor Borge
Sudden death
Valentine
For Ashkenazy
From daybreak to dusk
Aeons ago
On my wood-block print: For Claire Pratt
Poems
For E.H.C.
Running races

Greeting
Full moon
Japanese April
Frost flowers
Morning glory
Revelry
Snow
Fuji
Wisteria
Dawn
Make me a fairy
Summer morning
Ducks
Spring
Weeping willow
Flower master
The willow
May
Temple quiet
Evening
Nojiri Lake
Rejuvenation
Dragonflies
Autumn's bride
Frolic
Moonlight
Seascape
Calm
Silken waters
Moonflower
Miko

Vladimir Bukovsky
River Views
-I At Kew Bridge
-II Seagulls
-III Inch-long stem
-IV One glint before sunfall
-V Tide turning
-VI Mallard on the move
-VII The swan
For Lee: On an Indian plaque from British Columbia
River scene
Deficient education
Observation
Thank you poems to Sylvia for Mother's Day flowers
The tidal Thames: 11.30am May 1977
Thoughts in a Church garden: May 1977
A poem
Silences: When the heart sorrows
After the gasping breath
The tidal Thames: River views X, Reflections
Reflections from a train window on the way to Edinburgh 1977
Summer idyll
The irony
My thoughts - my poems
For Rita
It will be good
What a glutton I am
On a friend's grandfather dying unconscious in a breathing machine
Kisses are not for now
Old age
On receiving Rita's watch
Thought wedded to word
Hokku for Denis: On receiving a gift
Let the rose speak
St. Ives Dawn
St. Ives Cornwall: Childhood summers remembered
The shell: Cornwall 1977 with Sally
Country scene: The orchard, October 1977
For Jeanne and Arthur Sutton
The kiss: Admonition to myself
On writing a poem
Christmas
For Lee
Exploration
Margaret le Guyt's poem: Thoughts on Joan
Thoughts on Joan: Continued
The garden
I live in your thought
A pen takes time (a kiss is quicker)
Possibilities (for the retired)
On the birth of a poem
For Marion
For Denis: To thank him for his painting
Meal out: Half term, February 1978
River scenes
-XI Swan
-XII Raindrops and rainbow
Radio voices
Query
Karajan conducting
Milestone memories
Forgetting
How to make excuse
For Jeanne Sutton: On a necklace from Crete
River scene XIII
River scenes XIV Tidal river
Each day may be
Autumn in Green Park
Words
Summer-long
After the fall
Death taunts

Midnight
Sunset feast
Finale
Despair
Suicide
Ring
The Prisoner
Woman in the rain
Hate
To a four year old
Mr Smith
The organ
To F.C.E.
The visit
Peace
Hospital night

A poem on hands
Danger
Words
Petals for a pillow: A sequence of five
On the gift of a letter in color
The ship
Answer to the color letter
Dirge
For R.M.
Question
Withholding
Five stones from Iona
When in the waking moment
Arrival
Witness the newborn tendril in the upper air
Transformation
Compensation
Michael Hall ballad
To the tenth class
The tragic ditty of Kitty
Witches' revels
To seize those children whom 'tis clear
Barometer
Surface
The trap
For Michael
Jade piece
Teacher to Michael, a student
Answer
Crevice
How tenuous and delicate the thread
Fossils
Design for living
For David Napier
Design, Autumn ride
Thanks to Matthew
Task: For some in class X
For Mrs Wren to thank her for roses
Reply for Trevor
To St. Nicholas
To Werner: A gallant young gentleman
Ship
To Sylvia on her twelfth birthday
Eurhythmy invocation
Hands
The circle
To Karl Schapiro: Reading his own poetry
Liberty
Promise
Storm not the citadel of me
Resolve

Tree at Hurn Court
Cedar at Hurn Court
Holiday
Vision
To L.P.: A trilogy
Resurrection
I read the resurrection
For J.D.: Long not seen never forgotten
A poem no one can understand but Dante
For A.B.
Meeting
Afterthoughts: For A.B.
A poem only Dante can understand
Hokku
Essex weekend April 2-4 1971
Echo
A poem for Dante
The word: Afterthoughts for A.B.
Easter 1971
Be aware, stranger
The cry
University a la mode: England 1971
Easter morning 1971
Blackbird on twig
For E.B.: Poetry society evening
The rebuff
Poet of the evening
That book
The journey
Easter blackbird
Blackbird 1971
Journey
Prayer
Cry
Black crows
Hearing aid
Poem for Patricia
The question
Black crows: For A. Beardon
Praise
Tears

The critic
Poem for Mr. New
To a critic of poetry
Poem for Mr. New, the critic
To the critic of poems
The poetry critic
Tears
Praise for a poet
The tired mind
Hurt
Cold
The dream
Lost poem
Edward Brathwaite
Green Park: Autumn 1971
For Denise
For Lee Pascal
Compliment at sixty-five: For Lee Pascal
Loneliness
Notes: Summer Conference: English Speaking Board 1971
Aloneness
Compliment at sixty-four from a young man
Nostalgia
The Tome: Japan - Art and civilization for Lee Pascal
The Book
For Lee
Finished
The moment
For Lee: vignettes
Sahara
Salisbury Cathedral: Advent Sunday 1971
For Denise King: On a notebook
Pilgrimage
Litany
Fear
Inscription for Lee
Thank you poem
The witch's cat
Poem for Vera and Holger
Words from an old Spanish carol

Answer to advice
Time bombs
Rat race
Heart poison tonight
Betrayal: To P.S.
Answer to a critic giving advice
Hibernation
Meeting
Winter morning
Poetry recital: For Betty Mulcahy
The learned dissertation
Oracy
Outside
The dissertation
A special sunny young man
On a feast
Caged
Mocked
On an anthology
The dyslexic
Shadow
For C. Day Lewis
How in the crowded spaces
To the publisher of poetry anthologies
Dyslexic father and son
Better not
Caged in a timetable not of my choosing
Father and son
Parenthood
History
For Lee
For L.P.
Son of the spirit
Slavery
Said the tree
Moor Park pine
There is a stillness
Question
Spring Hokku