Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Willson H. Coates papers
Coates, Willson Havelock
D.409
/repositories/2/resources/705
9.25 linear feet
1925-1976
English
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Access
The Willson H. Coates Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
An accrual, consisting of photographs and an envelope of papers, was given as a gift by Mrs. Anne S. Young on 9 May 2001.
Biographical/Historical note
Willson H. Coates (1899-1976) was one of six children born to Canadian missionaries living in Japan. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1920, earned his masters as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1926. He arrived at the University of Rochester in 1925 as an instructor in the History Department and was promoted to associate professor in 1935, and then to full professor in 1947. In 1965 he was named professor emeritus.
Throughout his thirty-one years here, Professor Coates was widely regarded as an expert in modern British history. He was co-founder and editor of Journal of British Studies and author of many books, including The Journal of Sir Edmonds D'Ewes, The Emergence of Liberal Humanism, and The Ordeal of Liberal Humanism. He was a member of numerous professional organizations and served as an educational consultant for the United States government at Lucknow University in India. Coates also did brief terms as a visiting professor at Sarah Lawrence and Trinity Colleges.
Professor Coates's work extended beyond the classroom as well. From 1944 to 1946 he was a panel member for the National War Labor Board, which arbitrated disputes between unions and employers to ensure wartime productivity. His reputation in the Rochester community earned him a position on the Police Advisory Board in 1963, which he chaired from 1965 to 1970. The purpose of the P.A.B. was to investigate claims of police brutality.
Willson Coates was married to award-winning artist Hilda Altschule. At the time of his death in 1976 he was working on a book about his parents' missionary work as well as additional unpublished diaries of D'Ewes and other seventeenth-century Parliamentarians.
Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date], Willson H. Coates Papers, D.409, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Eileen L. Fay in 2011. Finding aid written by Eileen L. Fay in 2011. The finding aid was updated by Fiona Nichols-Fleming in 2015, when the collection was moved from a file cabinet to manuscript boxes.
Scope and Contents
The Willson H. Coates Papers include materials from Coates's time as a professor at the University of Rochester and as a consultant and visiting professor at other institutions. The collection also contains materials relating to his civic and political activities, including his work with the National War Labor Board and the Police Advisory Board. Also included are personal papers, items relating to his work with various learned societies and journals, scholarly projects, notebooks, and assorted publications.
Use
In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Historians
Coates, Willson Havelock
University of Rochester -- Faculty
United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
Rochester (N.Y.). Police Advisory Board
Series I: University of Rochester/repositories/2/archival_objects/141084Obituaries, memorial services/repositories/2/archival_objects/14110911A.A.U.P. and negotiations on tenure regulations/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411101936-194112Anthropology Ph.D. ad hoc committee/repositories/2/archival_objects/141111196213Appointments, promotions, leaves of absence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411121923-197414Bibliographies/repositories/2/archival_objects/14111315British History 225/repositories/2/archival_objects/14111416British scholar in American history, Search for/repositories/2/archival_objects/141115196217Correspondence with American scholars/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411161961-197618Correspondence with American scholars, Canadian and English in the US/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411171945-19601921Correspondence with people in England and other items concerning travel/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411201933-196922English Department ad hoc committee/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411211956-196523George, C.H. - Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/14112224Graduate school/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411231966-197025-6Graduate school/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411251957-196527Graduate school, statements of policy, correspondence, minutes/repositories/2/archival_objects/141127to 195631Grants and fellowships/repositories/2/archival_objects/14112832History Department affairs/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411291961-197533History Department affairs/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411301945-196034History lectures, miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/14113135Honors Committee minutes/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411321943-195536Honors Studies, Program in - Correspondence, evaluation of students/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411331941-196537Honors Studies, Program in - mimeographed material/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411351941-196541-2Conditions Governing AccessContains confidential information
Law school admissions tests and other information re: pre-law requirements/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411371956-196043Letters to the editor - addresses, TV, miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411381946-197644Letters to the editor - addresses, TV, miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411391932-194545Marshall scholarships - information about British universities/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411401958-196246Recommendations (Letters of) for academic personnel/repositories/2/archival_objects/14114251Conditions Governing AccessThis folder contains confidential information
Recommendations (Letters of) for students/repositories/2/archival_objects/14114352-4Conditions Governing AccessThese folders contain confidential information
Reports to and from administration, records of work done, correspondence about work/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411461938-197155Rhodes Scholarship/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411481948-197561Rhodes Scholarship/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411491933-194762River Campus Committee/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411501956-195763River Campus crisis/repositories/2/archival_objects/141151December 1967-January 196864Rush Rhees Library, Gifts to/repositories/2/archival_objects/141152197265Students and former students, Correspondence with/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411531960-197666Students and former students, Correspondence with/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411541939-19596771Tenure Committee /repositories/2/archival_objects/1411571946, 1954-196372Conditions Governing AccessThis folder contains confidential information
Tributes, faculty meetings, other occasions/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411581946-196573Academic honesty/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411591938-194474Conditions Governing AccessThis folder contains confidential information
Chapel project (aborted)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141160196875Committee on Committees/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411611962-196376Social Sciences Committee/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411621963-196477University of Rochester miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411631944-196778-9Series II: Other universities/repositories/2/archival_objects/141090India - Trip to Lucknow and subsequent material/repositories/2/archival_objects/141165195771081India - Mimeographed document on "General education"/repositories/2/archival_objects/141214131India - Lucknow University prospectus/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412151957-1958132India - Printed materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/14116882-3India - Visit of Indian educators to University of Rochester/repositories/2/archival_objects/141170195784India - C.E.P. Subcommittee reports, material collected for Indian educators/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411711946-195485Sarah Lawrence College - Correspondence and records/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411721944-196086Trinity College/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411731966-19678791University of British Columbia/repositories/2/archival_objects/141176197092University of British Columbia Summer School history lectures/repositories/2/archival_objects/141177circa 197293Series III: Civic and political activities/repositories/2/archival_objects/141092American Arbitration Association - Warsaw Electric Company and United Steelworkers/repositories/2/archival_objects/141178194694Hardman, J.B.S. (Correspondence with) - Labor and Nation articles/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411791946-195295National War Labor Board - General notes and correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/14118096National War Labor Board - Manuals/repositories/2/archival_objects/14118197National War Labor Board - Buffalo Courier Express and I.U.O.E./repositories/2/archival_objects/14118298National War Labor Board - General Hospital/Highland Hospital and I.U.O.E./repositories/2/archival_objects/141184101National War Labor Board - Hopeman Lumber and Manufacturing Co. and I.U.O.E.; also Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators/repositories/2/archival_objects/141185102National War Labor Board - Rochester Ice and Cold Storage Utilities and International Union of Operating Engineers/repositories/2/archival_objects/141186103National War Labor Board - Todd Company and International Printing Pressmen's Union/repositories/2/archival_objects/141187104New York State Mediation Board - New York State School of Labor and Industrial Relations/repositories/2/archival_objects/141188105Newspaper projected (aborted)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411891943-1945106Police Advisory Board/repositories/2/archival_objects/141190March 1967-March 1974107Police Advisory Board/repositories/2/archival_objects/141191March 1963-March 1967108Police Advisory Board cases - Englerth, Ford P./repositories/2/archival_objects/1411921965109Police Advisory Board cases - DeWeaver, Frank A./repositories/2/archival_objects/1411941965111Police Advisory Board cases - Dunhill, Victor S./repositories/2/archival_objects/1411951965112Police Advisory Board cases - Kennison, William P./repositories/2/archival_objects/1411961965113Police Advisory Board cases - Locust Club v. City of Rochester/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411971965114Police Advisory Board cases - Philadelphia/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411981960-1962115Police Advisory Board cases - Rochester/repositories/2/archival_objects/1411991965116Police Advisory Board cases - Saunders, Valerie Eva/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412011965121Police Advisory Board - Photographs and clippings/repositories/2/archival_objects/141202122Political correspondence - U.D.A., R.G.L.A., A.D.A., Loeb controversy/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412031941-1951123Politics - Election campaign activities for Adlai Stevenson, A.D.A./repositories/2/archival_objects/141204124Rochester - Miscellaneous correspondence and data/repositories/2/archival_objects/141205125World War II - Correspondence, etc. on engaging in/repositories/2/archival_objects/141206126Series IV: Personal material/repositories/2/archival_objects/141095Correspondence with friends in academia/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412071954-1974127Medical history/repositories/2/archival_objects/141208128Obituaries, memorial service (Willson Coates)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141209129Retirement episodes/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412101963-19651210Vita material/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412111211-12Series V: Grade books and class lists/repositories/2/archival_objects/141096Grade books/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412161925-1937133Conditions Governing UseThis folder contains confidential information
Grade books/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412181937-1947141Conditions Governing AccessThis folder contains confidential information
Grade books/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412191948-1960142Conditions Governing AccessThis folder contains confidential information
Grade books /repositories/2/archival_objects/1412201960-1965143Conditions Governing AccessThis folder contains confidential information
Class lists/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412211943-1944144-5Series VI: Learned societies and journals/repositories/2/archival_objects/141098American Historical Association meetings/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412241960-1976151American Historical Association meetings/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412251940-1959152Canadian and American historical associations and joint committees/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412261968-1974153Comparative studies in society and history/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412271955-1963154Comparative studies in society and history - mimeographed material/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412281956-1965155C.S.S.H. Conference on millenarianism/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412291960156Conference on British Studies - correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412311951-1975161Conference on British Studies - mimeographed and printed materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412321954-1966162-3Economic History Association - Journal of Economic History/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412341948-1956164Learned journals - Reviews, articles published and unpublished, general correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412351931-1965165-6New York State Association of European Histories/repositories/2/archival_objects/141237167Series VII: Scholarly projects/repositories/2/archival_objects/141100Discourses on historical themes, history symposiums, philosophy groups, India/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412411955-1965172Gardiner introduction - The First Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412421970173Historical abstracts/repositories/2/archival_objects/141243174-5An intellectual history of Western Europe: correspondence with Hayden White/repositories/2/archival_objects/141245176An intellectual history: correspondence with McGraw-Hill/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412461968-1976177An intellectual history: correspondence with McGraw-Hill/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412481952-1966181An intellectual history: correspondence with McGraw-Hill re: royalties/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412491967-1976182An intellectual history: correspondence with J. Salwyn Schapiro/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412511952-1966191An intellectual history: correspondence, reviews, ideas/repositories/2/archival_objects/141252192-3An intellectual history: ideas/repositories/2/archival_objects/141254194Literary award from the Friends of the Rochester Public Library/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412551966-1973195Notestein Festschrift - Stuart bibliography/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412571957-1962201Publishers (correspondence with) - evaluation of manuscripts, criticism of books published/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412581949-1968202Puritanism/repositories/2/archival_objects/141259203Seventeenth-century research, correspondence about/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412601950-1970204Short parliament of 1640: correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412611958-1976205Short parliament: miscellaneous material/repositories/2/archival_objects/141262206-7D'Ewes project: published in 1942/repositories/2/archival_objects/141265211D'Ewes project: continuation/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412661946-1976212Yale parliamentary diaries project/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412671965-1971213Tanner manuscript/repositories/2/archival_objects/141268214-5Series VIII: Notebooks, articles, and reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/141105Book reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412381961-1974168Book reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412401924-1960171Political science notes (Oxford)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141271221English History seminary (Oxford)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141272222History notes - French Revolution (Oxford)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141273223History notes - Eastern Europe (Oxford)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141274224History notes - Napoleon (Oxford)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141275225-6Notebook of quotations/repositories/2/archival_objects/141277227Lecture notes - Perkins/repositories/2/archival_objects/141279231Lecture notes - Van Deusen/repositories/2/archival_objects/141280232Review of Bowden, The Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England (American Historical Review, 1963)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141281233Review of Brailsford, The Levellers and the English Revolution (AHR, 1962)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141282234Review of Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy in England (Political Science Quarterly, 1960)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141283235Review of Wedgwood, The King's War, 1641-47 (AHR, 1959)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141284236Review of Eusden, Puritans, Lawyers, and Politics in the Early Seventeenth Century England (Yale Law Journal, 1958)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141285237Review of Popper, The Poverty of Historicism (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1958)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141286238Review of Rowse, The Early Churchills: An English Family (AHR, 1956)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141287239Review of Eisenstadt, Charles McLean Andrews: A Study in American Historical Writing (Annals, 1956)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412882310Review of Berlin, Historical Inevitability (Annals, 1956)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412892311Review of Judson, The Crisis of the Constitution (AHR, 1950)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412902312Coates, "Bethamism, Laissez Faire, and Collectivism" (Journal of the History of Ideas, 1950)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412912313Review of Schapiro, Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism (JHI, 1950)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412922314Coates, "Relativism and the Use of Hypothesis in History" (Journal of Modern History, 1949)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412932315Review of Orton, The Liberal Tradition (PSQ, 1946)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412942316Coates, "The Meaning of Liberalism for Americans" (Colgate-Rochester Divinity School Bulletin, 1938)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412952317Coates, "Some Observations on the Grand Remonstrance" (JMH, 1932)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412962318Coates, "The British Cabinet Crisis of August, 1931" (Historical Outlook, 1931)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412972319Coates and Marcham, "The Growth of Cabinet Government in England"/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412982320Coates, "Sir Walter Ralegh: The Man and the Artist" (Reviews in European History, 1974)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1412992321Review of Marx, Histoire du Royaume-Uni: Les Principaux Courants (AHR, 1969)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413002322Review of Checkland, The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885 (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1966)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413012323Coates, "A Note on the Diggers" (from Millennial Dreams in Action)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413022324Coates, "An Analysis of Major Conflicts in Seventeenth-Century England" (1960)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413032325Coates, "India. . . higher education is hampered by poverty and lack of resources" (Rochester Review, 1958)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413042326Coates, "Where Are We At, Five Years Since V-J Day" (Labor and Nation, 1950)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413052327Coates, "Showdown of Isms in Theory and Practice" (LN, 1950)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1413062328Coates (keynoter), "Crisis in Liberalism" (LN, 1948)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141308241Review of Haskins, The Growth of English Representative Government (Illinois Law Review, 1948)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141309242Coates, "What is Progress?" (Journal of Philosophy, 1948)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141310243Review of Toynbee, A Study of History, and Somewell, Abridgment of Vols. I-VI (AHR, 1947)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141311244Review of Zucker, The Philosophy of American History (AHR, 1945)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141312245Review of Wormuth, The Royal Prerogative (Cornell Law Quarterly, 1959)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141313246Review of Hankin and MacDermot, Recovery by Control - A Solution for Canada (The American Oxonian, 1934)/repositories/2/archival_objects/141314247