Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers, ca. 1890-1960.
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subject: Letters by Shirley Chamberlain and Florence Chamberlain Schneiderwirth, 1939-1960
topic: Photographs, circa 1890-1952
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provides access to: Correspondence, 1908-1911
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provides access to: Manuscript poem, circa 1911
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provides access to: Publications, 1939-1958
provides access to: Biographical Information, 1940-1960
provides access to: Chamberlain Family Papers, 1939-1960
provides access to: Letters by Shirley Chamberlain and Florence Chamberlain Schneiderwirth, 1939-1960
provides access to: Photographs, circa 1890-1952

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Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers, ca. 1890-1960.
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Cornelia Catlin Coulter Papers
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scopecontent: Scope and Contents of the Collection The Cornelia Catlin Coulter papers consist of correspondence, reprints, newspaper clippings, Chamberlain Family Papers, and photographs. The papers document family issues; her experience as a doctoral student at Bryn Mawr between 1908 and 1911; her time abroad in London, Italy, and Germany; and her work at Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke College. The Chamberlain family papers document Coulter's relationship with her two sisters and their lives between 1939 and 1960. The collection also documents Coulter's career and scholarship in classics, focusing on Greek and Roman writings, through newspaper clippings and reprints. The photographs consist primarily of portraits and snapshots of Coulter from circa 1890-1954. Correspondents include Shirley Chamberlain and Florence Chamberlain Schneiderwirth.
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Coulter, Cornelia Catlin, 1885-1960.
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body: Biographical Note Cornelia Catlin Coulter was born in 1885 in Ferguson, Missouri. Her father was a Presbyterian minister. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1907 from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. She earned her doctorate from Bryn Mawr College in 1911 after spending a year studying at the University of Munich in 1909-1910. Coulter was a teacher and reader of Latin at Bryn Mawr College from 1911-1912, a teacher of Latin and Greek at Saint Agnes School in New York, 1912-1916, and an instructor and associate professor of Latin and Greek at Vassar College from 1916-1925. She arrived at Mount Holyoke College in 1926, where she remained till her retirement in 1951. She was a professor of Latin (Classical Languages and Literature) and chairman of the Department from 1935-1948. After her retirement from Mount Holyoke, she taught for two years at Hiram College, 1951-1953. Coulter returned to Mount Holyoke in 1957 where she taught for one semester prior to teaching at the University of North Carolina in 1959. Coulter served as President of the New England Classical Association, the American Philological Association, and the Western Massachusetts Society of the Archaeological Institute. She died April 27, 1960, at the age of seventy-five in Newport News, Virginia.
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Correspondence, 1908-1911, 1932-1960
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scopecontent: 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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scopecontent: 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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Biographical Information, 1940-1960
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scopecontent: 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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Chamberlain Family Papers, 1939-1960
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scopecontent: 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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Photographs, circa 1890-1952
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scopecontent: The photographs consists of formal photographs of Coutler. The series includes pictures of Coulter as a child, circa 1890, and as a young woman, circa 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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Correspondence, 1908-1911
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Correspondence, 1932-1960
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Manuscript poem, circa 1911
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Publications, 1911-1937
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Publications, 1939-1958
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Biographical Information, 1940-1960
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Letters by Shirley Chamberlain and Florence Chamberlain Schneiderwirth, 1939-1960
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Photographs, circa 1890-1952
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