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Archives related to: Coues, Mary Emily Bates
| title | Coues Family Papers – MS011 | repository | Portsmouth Athenaeum |
| description | Correspondence, scrapbooks, mss., newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly of Samuel Elliott Coues, merchant and civic leader, his wife, Charlotte Haven Ladd Coues, author of poems and articles, and other family members. Subjects include Samuel Coues's activities as founder of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, life in Washington, D.C. (1854-1866) when he worked for the U.S. Patent Office, presidency of American Peace Society, Portsmouth Temperance Society, and Portsmouth Athenaeum, and the fire in Portsmouth in 1802. Family members represented include Samuel's son, Elliott Ladd Coues, naturalist and author of Key to North American Birds (1872), Elliott's brother-in-law, Charles A. Page, journalist, Samuel's adopted daughter, Lucy Coues Flower, a social reformer, and an aunt, Rebecca (Elliott) Hopper, of Paddington, England. |
| extent | 1 Hollinger Box (265 items) |
| formats | Correspondence Scrapbooks Clippings Manuscript |
| access | No restrictions |
| record link | http://www.portsmouthathenaeum.org/findingaids/ms011.htm |
| record source | http://www.portsmouthathenaeum.org/findingaids/ms011.htm |
| acquisition information | Both parts seem to have one been in the possession of Dr. Elliott Coues. He made notes on letter groups and the scrapbooks. Many of the letters seem to have been removed from a scrapbook; a note by Elliott Coues indicating this is filed in folder 26 and another note has been copied and placed in front of the Samuel to Charlotte Coues correspondence. There are also notes by James A. Spalding (grandson of Samuel Coues’ sister) from 1932 found in the first scrapbook and filed in folder 28. William P. Coues is Samuel E. Coues’ great-grandson. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:41 |
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