Box 2

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Letter writers include: Alice Coates, Amy Hornor Coates, Anna Coates, Anna Troth Coates and Anne M. Coates;

Highlights include: Coates, Alice and Elihu Pickering to Beulah Coates. [Philadelphia], 1916 5/4. Invitation to visit. ;Coates, Amy (1765-1838) to son (Reynell). 1834 1/30. [religious letter]; Coates, Anna Troth. 1869-76 and n.d. 5 items. [on travel, family life]

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the letters are primarily addressed to his sister, Beulah Coates and father, George Coates and are on health (including references to Asiatic cholera), family, references to business, considerable travel (including to Sault Ste. Marie and Lake Superior, Cleveland and elsewhere) To sister. [Philadelphia], 1868 9/8. [will be attending a meeting of the board of the Institute for Colored Youth]

Scope and Contents Coates' letters appear to be drafts and are difficult to read. There are 5 notes relating to agreement to give poor people coal, some signed by B.H. Coates, some by Beulah Coates or others, but referring to B.H. Coates' permission to allot the coal. To Mr. Chase and others. Philadelphia, 1865 1/12. [will be meeting with Mr. Peale at the American Philosophical Society] To Mrs. Thomas Large. Philadelphia, 1865 6/13. [speaks of his complicated life and wants to know if she will reside in his...

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Letter relates to trip to Watkins Glen and Niagara Falls.

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Includes diary entries for 1827 which she sends to Sarah Pugh. Many of the letters are addressed to her sisters, Mary Coates and Sarah Coates, and relate domestic and other daily activities, as well as friends, family and acquaintances, health and attending Meeting

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Letter to F. M. Cresson about providing information on the genealogy of the Coates family

Scope and Contents Letter writers include: Edward Coates, Eliza Troth Coates, Elsie Coates, Esther M. Coates, Florence Coates Highlights include: Coates, Edward to Aunt. Haverford College, 1860 12/9. [getting ready for junior class "the exhibition;" visit to the college by Eliza Gurney, Eliza and William Backhouse and John Whitall] Printed solicitation by the Penna. Academy of Fine Arts, signed by Edward H. Coates, president. Ca. 1900. Coates, Eliza Troth. Writes from Santa Cruz (St. Croix), V.I....

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Letters are to family members. To Rebecca. Albany, 1827 7/25. [is traveling by boat and in 30 miles will ascend 28 locks and doesn't have a clear notion of when he'll return]

Scope and Contents All the letters are written to family members, especially his Aunts Mary and Sally, and quite a number while he was a student at Haverford College. A number of the letters address business issues. To Aunt Beulah Coates. Haverford, Pa., 1860 10/7. [reports on becoming an editor of the Everett Society paper; had a Lincoln torchlight parade] To Aunt Beulah Coates. Haverford, 1861 5/5. [20 days since Lincoln called out 75,000 men and gave the "traitors" time to return to their homes, but the war...

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Letter writers include: Helen L. Coates, Henry Troth Coates, Joseph Hornor Coates

Highlights include: Coates, Henry T. to Benjamin Coates. Haverford College, 1860 4/15. [hopes his uncle will give him autographs of President Benson of Liberia and ex-President Roberts as he had promised; discussing dueling with knives v. pistols] Coates, Joseph H. to Benjamin Coates. Madison, N.J., 1875 7/8. [wants to become independent publisher and needs $20,000, so asks his uncle for $10,000]