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

One tear
Re-write of Hibernation
Hokku
Flower
Three-day farewell
Pigeons
The dream
Pain
The wish
Query
Reincarnation
Many births, many lives, many deaths
Betrayal
The Christ answers
After sleep Christ says to the heart
November morning
Feeling
Affinity
Presence
Old photo 1936: Seated at a table, to Sylvia
The blow
Words are shy
Fear can freeze

Christmas Day 1906-1975
Telephone call
Day of birth
The apartment
The flat
Poem sequence
Milieu
Meeting
Hokku on anger
The carrier bag
Chincherinchees
In the confines of my garret room
Your gift: For Marion
For Denis
For Marion
Dream
The ghost
Ditty of disillusionment
Self-realization
Orthodox prayer
Stray cat Fred
The nightmare
I have tamed the tiger of my wrath
Journey through tigers
Prayer
Memorial day
In a dream
Baffled
Retirement
Lift the hand
Unseen poetry
The vision
On a poetry magazine 1976

For J.R.D.: Death day April 13th 1979
For Karl Schubert (met just once in 1948)
For Sally: On pictures of beautiful British Columbia
World at One
Pain has become my companion
River view geometry
River at sunset
Radio
Death day
Recollections of Takayama Japan
Childhood recollections
The maestro: Victor Borge
Sudden death in my room
1980 Valentine
Running races
For Ned Pratt and Healey [Willau?]
For Claire Pratt - the artist: On my wood-block print
Concern
For Lee
Nasturtium seeds
Moods
Quick snowstorm
Feather falling

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.

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 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.

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.

16 Mar. 1942. Mary [Bollert?]. 1185 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver
Recommendation for a teaching post als. 3 sheets

8 Mar. 1943 Charles Roberts. The [Enncliffe?], Toronto
Appreciation of "Patterns in Time" als. 1 sheet

19 Jul 1945. Minister Henry Crane. Crane Crest, Pine Island, New Hampshire
Gratitude for copy of "ShanLing" tls. 1 sheet

15 Oct. 1945. E.J. Pratt [Ned]. Victoria College, Toronto 5
Expression of friendship and request for books als. 1 sheet

20 Sep. 1946. Major Bullock-Webster. International Drama Festival and Pacific Drama Conference, 506 Government Street, Victoria, B.C
Suggestion that "The Jade Heart" should be published als. 1 sheet

20 Feb. 1946. Lila [Coates Maltby]. 54 Heath Street East, Toronto
Letter to Wells, Mary, Bertha and Carol regarding their mother's memorial service on 16 Feb. 1946.
Enclosures: text of Dr. Bates' talk at the memorial service and notice of the service from Constance Chappell, Secretary of the Japanese Mission Fellowship tls. 5 sheets

17 Oct. 1946. Mrs. Bessie Tang. 2624 Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C
Appreciation of "The Jade Heart" als. 1 sheet

7 Dec. 1946. Lila [Coates Maltby]. Medical Arts Building, Toronto
Family news and note that the date of their mother's death was 29 Jun. 1945 tls. 1 sheet

11 Mar. 1947. Tuli [Thorlief Larsen]. Department of English, University of British Columbia
Discussion of poetry als. 1 sheet

25 Mar. 1947. Tuli [Larsen]. Department of English, University of British Columbia
Discussion of poetry and "ShanLing" als. 2 sheets

14 Oct. 1947. Margaret Carter. Creston Valley Jr.-Sr. High School, Creston, B.C.
Acknowledgment of "The Jade Heart" and discussion of performance als. 2 sheets

12 Jan. 1948. Emma Kaufman. S.S. General Meigs, American President Lines Service and urn containing Mrs. Coates' ashes dropped into Pacific Ocean on 11 Jan. 1948 tls. 1 sheet

16 Sep. 1948. Vi [wife of E.J. Pratt]. 21 Cortleigh Boulevard, Toronto
Family news als. 1 sheet

27 Sep. 1948. Tuli [Larsen]. Department of English, University of British Columbia
Enquiry about Rudolf Steiner educational methods and "Invitation to Mood" als. 1 sheet

1 Oct. 1948. Connie Daniells. 1892 Cochrane Street, Victoria, B.C.
Family news als. 1 sheet

3 Dec. 1948. [Karl] Schubert. Stuttgart
Acknowledgment of "ShanLing" and discussion of education als. 2 sheets

7 Jan. 1949. Rodney Dakin, Fairfield Whitney School, Everett, Massachusetts
Appreciation of "First Flight" als. 1 sheet

12 Jun. 1949. Tuli [Larsen]. Gambier Harbour, B.C.
Discussion of poetry als. 2 sheets

8 Nov. 1949. E.M. Jones [drama editor of The Ryerson Press]. Department of Drama, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Discussion of "The Jade Heart" tls. 1 sheet

24 Nov. 1949. Tuli [Larsen]. Department of English, University of British Columbia
Acknowledgment of Ryerson Press copy of Invitation to Mood als. 1 sheet

15 Dec. 1949. Ned [E.J. Pratt] and Vi. 21 Cortleigh Boulevard, Toronto
Appreciation of Invitation to Mood als. 1 sheet

22 Dec. 1949. Claire Pratt. 21 Cortleigh Boulevard, Toronto
Appreciation of Invitation to Mood als. 1 sheet

7 May 1950. Roy [Daniells]. Department of English, University of British Columbia
Appreciation of Invitation to Mood and university news tls. 3 sheets

20 Sep. 1951. Eugene Magner. Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo, Buffalo 14, New York
Request for drafts of poetry for their collection of 20th century poetry tls. 1 sheet

29 Jul. 1952. [Ke?]. Regent Palace Hotel, Picadilly Circus, London
Regarding a meeting als. 1 sheet

1 Jan. 1955. Ned Pratt. 47 Glencairn Avenue, Toronto
Family news als. 1 sheet

20 Jun. 1957. Tuli [Larsen]. 1235 West 27th Avenue, Vancouver
University news als. 2 sheets

12 Nov. 1960. Taeko Nakamura, 3-1128 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Regarding Mrs. Coates' life in Japan during the Second World War tls. 1 sheet

10 Jan. 1961. Dr. Fumiko Amano, 3915 Don Diablo Drive, Los Angeles, California
Regarding Mrs. Coates' life in Japan during the Second World War tls. 1 sheet

18 Jan. 1961. Lila [Coates Maltby]. 54 Heath Street East, Toronto
Family news als. 1 sheet

19 Dec. 1962. Lila [Coates Maltby]. [no address]
Family news als. Christmas card

4 Oct. 1963, Laura [no surname]. The Ridge, Burton Lane, Burton Overy,
Leicester Enquiry about Wells Coates' life in Japan and family news als. 1 sheet

18 Dec. 1969. Willson Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Family news tls. 1 sheet

27 Feb. 1970. Willson Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Family news tls. 1 sheet

4 Jun. 1971. Willson Coates. Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland
Family news als. 1 sheet

20 Aug. 1971. Willson Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Family news relating to his return visit to Japan tls. 1 sheet

8 Feb. 1972. Willson Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Regarding Mrs Coates' wish for a memorial in the chapel of Alma College, St. Thomas, Ontario tls. 1 sheet

19 Feb. 1972. Willson Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Regarding memorial to Agnes Wintemute Coates 1864-1945.
Enclosures: Letter to Willson from Lila dated 15 Feb. 1972 and a letter to Lila from Willson dated 19 Feb. 1972 tls. 4 sheets

16 Apr. 1973. Willson Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Family news als. 1 sheet

24 Apr. 1975. Laura. The Old Rectory, Chipping Warden, Banbury, Oxfordshire
Request for information about Wells Coates' architectural work
Enclosure: reply from Carol Coates dated 25 Apr. 1975 tls. 2 sheets

18 May 1975. Laura. The Old Rectory, Chipping Warden, Banbury, Oxfordshire
Regarding Wells Coates' architectural work als. 1 sheet

28 Sep. 1976. Bertha [Coates Cooper]. Liniers 846, Tigre
Regarding the death of Willson Coates tls. 1 sheet

28 Feb. 1977. Hilda Coates [wife of Willson]. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Regarding the death of Willson Coates tls. 1 sheet

18 Aug. 1977. Hilda Coates. 220 Highland Parkway, Rochester, New York
Request for information on life in Japan for Coates-Wintemute biography als. 1 sheet

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-?]

Includes Flower and Outside. 2 copies and subscription material.

Includes Ceramic Art of China: Victoria and Albert Museum - June 1971.

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.

"The Possibility of Triumph," by Eric Green. University of British Columbia Graduate Chronicle
[Note: commentary on Roy Daniells, Professor of 17th century English Literature]

"For Tuli Larsen on his retirement. Oxford, May 1958." University of British Columbia Graduate Chronicle: 1958
[Note: poem by Carol Coates and anonymous review. Also includes typescript copy of the poem]

"Gold medal for Sir Denys Ladsun," by John Grigsby. The Daily Telegraph. 2 Mar. 1977
[Note: "Before the war he worked with Wells Coates and Berthold Lubetkin, of Tecton, both pioneers of the modern movement in architecture in Britain."]

Series consists of a cover note for an anonymous gift of money to Mr. and Mrs. Coates, handwritten biographical notes by Mrs. Agnes Coates, typescript notes relating to Rev. Harper Coates' teaching post in the Theology Department of Aoyama Gakuin, a typescript article relating to Wells Coates, a letter from Professor E. Sedgewick to Miss Langridge regarding Carol Coates' poetry, a single title page of a work dated 1949, and a publicity sheet for Invitation to Mood issued by The Ryerson Press in 1949.

Cover note for anonymous gift of 200 yen to Mr. and Mrs. Coates upon the illness of Mr. Coates

Notes relating to Rev. Harper Coates' teaching post in the Theological Department at the Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo in 1913

Handwritten biographical notes by Mrs. Agnes Coates with a typed addition. 17 Dec. 1938

Typescript copy of article by "Atticus in the London Times" regarding Wells
Coates' project to design the new town of Iroquois on the St. Lawrence seaway

13 Feb. 1945. E. Sedgewick. Department of English, University of British Columbia, to Miss Langridge.
Acknowledging receipt of an untitled poem by Carol Coates
tls. 1 sheet

Title page of "Tie in Freedom or How Not to Become an Anthroposophist. By
Carol Coates. March 1949"
[1 typescript sheet]

Publicity for Invitation to Mood issued by The Ryerson Press, Dec. 1949.
Includes an illustration of the volume and a quotation from Tuli Larsen.

Ned Vi Claire Carol
We circle of four
Kuuozan
Words
Word world
Meeting
Clever man
Appreciation: For Denis
Awareness
Emptiness
Inside
Outside
Awareness: For D.R.
Aloneness
Elizabethan gentleman
The past: For D.R.
Starvation
Voice miracle
Meditation on hands
The young
Enlightenment
Fault
Treasure
On a magazine of modern poets
Billet doux for Joan
For Marion and Denison
Dinner delights
Rationalization
On being given an award
Before the Orthodox liturgy
Orthodox cathedral before the all-night vigil
Thank you for dust-bug doggerel
Plea for enlightenment
The web
The trap
Web to window
Timetable cage
Opening
An appreciation: Creative Chaos

Timetable cage
Poem for a kind man: John Leger
R.D.
Retirement poem
The gift
For Marion Ross
Inscription for Coidy
November
The uninvited
Aloneness
Who knows?
Camden poetry group
Dance
Dream
That silence
The perfect meeting
Why is it that
Accord
Thank you letter to Lee
Old Orchard: Canterbury
What a silence that is
Christmas week
I wish I could sweep the day
In the beginning of all
Paean of praise to infinity
Poem birth
Thank you poems for Lee
The great destroyer
Poem flowers
Advice to myself
Seed secrets
For the BBC 3 announcer Donald Price
Invocation to sleep
Sparrows in the park
Sparrows by the Serpentine
Snow and ice
Coldness
Warmth poem for teachers
Spiral prayer
The spiral
Brother
Brother query
Chosen words
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
The Jewish wedding: For Julie and Anthony

To the readers of my poems
On the new anthology
Mario
Eyes
In the last sleep
Spring calm
After the long forgetting
For Rosamund: On her poems
Remembering
One tear
Advice
The wrong
Guitarist
For Stuart: To a talented young man
Mysterious Britain
Microbalance
To a gifted artist
Spring nocturne
Cold spell
Held spring: nocturne
Michael MacLiamor
The answer
Reading a poem: For Eileen Warren
Why?
The Holy One
Contrast
Lull
Rejection
Inside: For Marion
Offering
Skin

Whitsun verse
Aspects of retirement
Steiner (translation)
Gift from you
Michael meditation
River scenes
Green Park: Autumn
For Karl Schubert: Thirty years after October 1948
Autumn walk
Autumn river walk
Old age
Death taunts
After the fall
Beautiful British Columbia
Catapulted into disaster
Accident
Release: For J.R.D.
O receive them

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