31 Aug. 1947. 15 East 79th Street, New York

20 Dec. 1947. "Underwood," Forest Row, Sussex

Aug. 1948. "Underwood," Forest Row, Sussex

[1949] to Professor E.M. Jones, Department of Drama, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Regarding his criticism of "The Jade Heart"
tls. 1 sheet. See his reply dated 8 Nov. 1949 in 11 - 1

3 Sep. 1949. The Rudolf Steiner School, 38 Colinton Road, Edinburgh
Enclosures: typescript of poem by Erika Trevelyan and photocopy of letter from Tuli Larsen dated 24 Nov. 1949. His original letter is in 11 - 1

20 Oct. 1950. Oak House, 85 Lawn Road, London

18 Sep. 1951. The Square, Forest Row, Sussex

7 Sep. 1952. 1 Rosehill, Forest Row, Sussex 1954 [no address]

27 Oct. 1955. 34 Wellington Square, Oxford

Aug. 1956. 34 Wellington Square, Oxford

1958. The Cottage, Potterspury Lodge, Towcester, Northamptonshire

1 Nov. 1959. 18 Steele's Road, London

26 Aug. 1960. 51 Elm Park Gardens, London

1961. 51 Elm Park Gardens, London

1962. 51 Elm Park Gardens, London

Christmas 1963. 54 Sinclair Road, London

Christmas 1964. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London

Christmas 1965. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London

Christmas 1966. [no address]

Christmas 1967. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London

Christmas 1968. [no address]

1969. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London

Christmas 1970. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London

Christmas 1971. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London [photocopy]

Christmas 1972. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London [photocopy]

Christmas 1973. 51 Queen Caroline Street, London [photocopy]

The Church Observer

Series consists of an off-print of a book review by Willson Coates published in The American Historical Review of Oct. 1945, and a complete volume of The Journal of British Studies for Nov. 1961, of which he was the Editor. The series also contains newspaper clippings relating to the life of Willson Coates, including his return to Japan in 1971 and a literary award given by the Rochester Public Library in 1973. The series also comprises a biographical sketch introducing him at the Rochester Public Library award ceremony and his typescript account of his parents' lives in Japan. Material relating to his academic achievements is found in the tributes paid at his memorial service on 24 Oct.1976 which were printed for distribution.

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 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.

Includes Carol Coates' review of I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris.

Series consists of loose-leaf typescript sheets of poems which have been lined through in pencil.

Series consists of 18 small notebooks containing handwritten rough drafts of poems. There are many poems in each volume, and often a single poem is re-written several times. Carol Coates would place a note at the bottom of her drafts of poems to show the date when she copied them into other notebooks containing final handwritten drafts. An explanation for this copying process is provided in the notebook of Sep.1972-Dec.1972: "copied means transferred to the fair copy book." The notebooks also contain drafts of letters, recipes, lists of events, book reviews, addresses and quotations from other poets.

Secrets
The door
The square
Red candle: A book of Chinese poems
Hate love
To the poet Wen I-to
Experience
On the poems
The game - now and then
Release
Garret lodging in London
Dead
Dawn chorus: Temple Lodge 1973
Holiday
The class
Sleeping beauty on ice
Antidote to Creative Chaos called uncreative chaos or alternatively a romp through chaos
Love thine enemies
The enemy
On meeting a new friend through an enemy
Poems are lonely
Poems to the poet
Some poems are icebergs
Once
Rapport
Iceberg poems
The lost abbey: Castle Acre
Mush love
On a vacation postcard
Postcard postscript
Moor Park
Moor Park tree: Cedar of Lebanon
Cedar atlantis
Soul
After death: For Lee the grammarian
Cross section: For Lee
Masseur
Rejoice in reunion: For R.M. masseur
On the mystery plays

Long distance telephone
To C. Day Lewis
Overwhelmed by Ann
Time no longer tethered
Green Park: February 1974
Thorn in the flesh
Madonna
Pre-spring Green Park hokku
Day
Vagrant
Coward
Bruckner: An Easter poem
Saved
For Inge: In appreciation
Compliment
Inside
Death
Lucky me
Cherry blossoms
Lake Louise
O lover death
The poem
Touch is denied
Poet's plea
The dilemma
Poet and poem
Experience to poem
Stay the tongue
Revision of Black Crows
For Stuart
For a shy poet
Plea: To a shy poet

The tidal Thames 11.30am
Thoughts in a church garden
River walk: Early Sunday morning
Early morning near Kew Bridge
River views
From a train window
Summer idyll
Reflections
The irony
Contrast: Leaving
Some silences can soothe
Kisses
Old age
Time and duty
Remember the centre and all is well
Let the rose speak
Sketches for a black notebook
Memories of a school [marm?]
St. Ives idyll: Summer 1977
Nostalgic sea poem
Dawn: St. Ives Cornwall 1977
The spider
Shell in a shop window
Prescription
Impromptu hokku for Denis

Impromptu hokku for Denis
Shell in a shop window: St. Ives 1977
Childhood summers: Takayama Japan
For Jeanne and Arthur
St. Ives: Dawn
For L.P.
Admonition
A new person
A poem emerges
Exploration
On writing a poem
For Lee
The sudden death
Transmission
Entry to Eden
A kiss is quicker
The garden
Possibilities for one retired
Birth of a poem
For Denis - the painter to thank him for the gift of a river landscape
Riverscape: A painting by Denis Ross
For Marion
Shrimp and duck letter
Dining out
Meal out: Half term 1978
Evening stroll by the river
Radio voices
River scenes
Radio miracle
Karajan conducting
Retirement alone
Aspects of retirement

Death taunts
Kinds of cold
Poem of thanks for a Christmas dinner
Kinds of warmth
Poem for Claire Pratt to thank her for an illustrated edition of some of my poems The kiss
of trust
The seal
Christmas 1981
Cynicism
God's messenger: The Pope's visit to England May 1982
Feather falling

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

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

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.)

Written about a friend's former incarnation.

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."

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."

Series consists of one album containing 21 photographs showing the Rudolf Steiner School production of The Jade Heart in 1946, the Revelstoke School Dramatic Club production of The Jade Heart in 1947 and Camp Glenbrook, New Hampshire with the cast of The Jade Heart. The series also includes a single photograph of a group of Japanese men and women gathered around the gravestone of Harper Coates. On the verso is the inscription: Miss Kurayo Kawai, 976 Higashiibamachi, Hamamatsu, Japan.

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.

As 11-04, Outgoing letters - original copies

Sep. 1974. [no address]

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.

Off-print from the Oct. 1945 issue of The American Historical Review
[Note: includes Willson Coates' review of The Philosophy of American History by Morris Zucker]

Complete issue of the Nov. 1961 volume of The Journal of British Studies. Edited by Willson Coates

"Lure of Japan: Parents' Past," Rochester Times Union, 24 May 1971.

Newspaper clipping in Japanese

Friends of the Rochester Public Library 17th Annual Literary Award, 12 Apr. 1973.

"Dr. Coates to Receive Annual Literary Award," [ca. 1973]

Typescript biographical sketch of Agnes and Harper Coates' lives in Japan, 12 Apr. 1973

Greeting and tributes for the memorial service at the Interfaith Chapel, University of Rochester on 24 Oct. 1976, entitled Willson Havelock Coates 1899-1976

Covering letter dated 21 Dec. 1976 for the copy of printed tributes to Willson Coates at service held on 24 Oct. 1976. From Richard Kaeuper, Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

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.

Includes "Creative Chaos," an address read to the English Speaking Board Annual General Meeting, Feb. 1973. Also enclosed is a photocopy of the Christmas letter 1973 describing her work with the English Speaking Board.

includes Flower arrangement, Web to window, Dream, Stay the tongue, and Poem for Retirement.

Includes There is a stillness, The candle and Many births, many deaths

-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

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