Correspondence , 1908-1911, 1932-1960

2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0722, The Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2002/11/12

Description:
The correspondence includes letters Coulter wrote to her cousins, Shirley Chamberlain and Florence Chamberlain Schneiderwirth, and her aunt Daisy Tompkins Chamberlain, 1908-1911, 1932-1960. These letters discuss her activities, travels, and family news concerning her brother, Joseph H. Coulter, and his children and events in their lives. The letters from 1908-1911 were written by Coulter when she was a graduate student at Bryn Mawr College. In these letters she describes her studies, exams, the College's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, 1910, and visits with Florence and Shirley. Two letters dated November 1908 and April 1909 were written from Munich, Germany and Rome, Italy. In these letters she discusses a trip she made to England where she particularly enjoyed visiting Warwick, Stratford, and Kenilworth. Coulter also describes her time in Munich, Germany, where she attended concerts and the theater and saw art work by famous German artists such as Durer, Holbein, and Bocklin. In a letter dated December 3, 1911, Coulter discusses her teaching of Latin at Bryn Mawr College and her students. In a letter dated December 2, 1932, she describes a trip she took to Italy, where she visited Rome, Florence and Perugia and saw the Alps and the St. Francis Church. Coulter's letters dated 1933-1954 are written from Mount Holyoke College. In these letters she discusses her family life as well as her teaching at Mount Holyoke. Also included in the series is a 1959 letter from Coulter to friends announcing her temporary position in the Classics Department at Mount Holyoke College and her status as a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Letters from January 1959 to 1960 chiefly concern her health problems.

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MS 0722.2

Writings , ca. 1911-1958

3 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0722, The Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/18

Description:
These writings include Coulter's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to Bryn Mawr College in 1911, entitled "Retratio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persia, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichlus, and Trinummus." Also included in the series is a manuscript poem possibly written by Coulter, numerous publications dealing with Greek and Latin poetry, medieval writings, the Middle Ages, language, Roman writings, and a published book review.

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MS 0722.3

Biographical Information , 1940-1960

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0722, The Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/18

Description:
The biographical information includes letters, data, and announcements regarding the John Hay Whitney Foundation, for which Coulter was chosen to be a visiting professor at Hiram College following her retirement from Mount Holyoke, a letter from Dick Coulter, her nephew, regarding Cornelia's health following a stroke, a short biography, newspaper clippings, and a journal clipping regarding her death.

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MS 0722.4

Chamberlain Family Papers , 1939-1960

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0722, the Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/18

Description:
This series consists of seven letters written by Cornelia Catlin Coutler's cousins, Shirley Chamberlain and her sister, Florence Chamberlain Schneiderwirth, 1939-1960. These letters discuss Florence's trip to St. Louis, the birthplace of their father, where she visited with Coulter and saw many sites where her father and grandfather used to stand. She tells of the old pharmacy building that belonged to their grandfather and the old birthplace of their father. The series also includes five letters from Shirley to Coulter written in 1939, 1948, 1949, 1959, and 1960, discussing casual matters such as visits, appreciation for gifts received, health matters, and plans for a trip to Europe.

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MS 0722.5

Photographs , ca. 1890-1952

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0722, The Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/18

Description:
The photographs consists of formal photographs of  Coutler. The series includes pictures of Coulter as a child, ca. 1890, and as a young woman, ca. 1907, as well as photographs of her taken in the 1930s and 1940s. The series also includes a photograph of Coulter with three Mount Holyoke College students who participated in an Easter play presented by the Classics Department in 1952.

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