Letters to Coates family P, 1842-1906

Letter writers include: Mary P., W.B.P., Frederick A. Packard, L.W. Parrish. Mary Passmore, A.J. Paxson, Robert Pearsall, Elizabeth Peirson, S.E. Peterson, Anna Pickering, Elizabeth Pickering, W.B. Poste, Benjamin Potts, Mrs. Potts, Maria Potts, Martha Potts, William Potts, Sarah Pugh

Highlights include: P., W.B. to Beulah Coates. Haverford, 1855 10/26. [speaks of returning to Haverford College and seeing about 75 students; the new classical teacher is Thomas Chase and is highly regarded, being very communicative and familiar but also immutable when needed; Joseph Harlan begins lectures on astronomy]. Peirson, E[llen?] to Sidney Coates. Philadelphia, 1866 8/4. [At their Select Quarterly Meeting, Joseph Elkinton was recorded a minister without a dissenting voice]. Potts, William H. to Mary and Sarah Coates. Trenton, NJ, 1894, 7/26. [given the poor economic times, asks for a loan of $350]. Potts, Benjamin to Benjamin Coates, 1876, 1/21 [mentions Theodore Tilton’s (abolitionist) lecture and a court case in which Potts is defending a pauper against a corporation].