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Typed rough drafts of poems with handwritten additions

Series consists of one volume containing loose-leaf typed copies of poems with handwritten corrections dated Sep. 1979. Also included is a single typescript sheet with handwritten annotations; the first line is "The poet knocks on the Pearly Gates and a voice says."

Typed quotation book from Tao Te Ching

Series consists of a small notebook containing typed copies of poems from Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu, translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, printed by Wildwood House, London. Also included in the notebook is Land of the Reed Plains: Ancient Japanese Lyrics from the Manyoshu, translated by Kenneth Yasunda.

Typed quotation book from Tao Te Ching

-Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu, translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (Wildwood House, London)
-Land of the Reed Plains: Ancient Japanese Lyrics from the Manyoshu, translated by Kenneth Yasuda

Typed copy of lecture

Series consists of one lecture entitled "The Art of Flower Arrangement" given to the University Women's Club of Toronto on 19 Apr. 1940. It presents the symbolism and Zen Buddhist principles of Japanese flower arrangement.

Typed copies of prose

Series consists of paper-bound typescripts of the story "ShanLing or the Tale of the Celestial Tea-Pot (A Christmas Fantasy)" and the prose essays "Theirs by Adoption" and "A Question of Honour." Also included are two large ring-bound folders containing many short prose works. The first folder in the series includes: "This Side of East: Sketches from a Japanese Notebook," "Black, White and a Touch of Red," "The Ghost that Wasn't" and "The Unwanted Messenger." The second folder in the series includes: "Supplement to the Sutras of the Speechificators. Commonly Known as the Prayer Book by Hans Pusch," "The Imperial Reply. A Tragedy in One Act," "First Aid for Flowers," "The Souls of Flowers" and "Blossom Time in Canada."

Typed copies of poems

Series consists of typed copies of dated and undated poems. Some poems are fastened in bound volumes or ring-bound folders. Most are final versions and thus contain few corrections or annotations.

Accrual adds to the existing series two notebooks of typed poems. One notebook is subdivided by year (1970, 1971, 1972) and the other notebook is subdivided by first by year (1973) and then by subject or “mood” (Poetic, Tranquil,Descriptive, Apperceptive, Turbulent, Humourous, and Personal.)

Typed copies of plays

Series consists of typescripts of two plays: "Antidote to Chaos" and The Jade Heart. The third item in this series includes a list of performers and pencil drawings of costumes for The Jade Heart. It contains an explanatory note: "The first three pages are from the original manuscript used for the first production at the Rudolf Steiner School."

Scrapbook

Series consists of a ring-bound folder containing miscellaneous notes, letters, photographs, newspaper clippings and Christmas cards pasted onto white paper. Many of the items are dated 1943-1945.

Printed copies of poems, plays and prose

Series consists of magazines in which Carol Coates' poetry or prose was published. It includes a copy of ShanLing, or the Tale of the Celestial Tea-Pot (A Christmas Fantasy), Spoken English: Ideas and Developments in Oral Education, Candelabrum: A Magazine of Poetry, The Golden Blade, Pegasus 2 and several anthologies printed by the Camden Poetry Group. The series also includes loose-leaf printed sheets containing a selection of poems dated by year.

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