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            <title>Charles and Irene Coates Age and Date Calculations</title>
            <author>Viola Muse</author>
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               <name>Clayton McCarl</name>
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               <resp>Edition</resp>
               <name>Laura Heffernan</name>
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               <name>Tru Leverette</name>
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            <p>This document was produced as part of the Viola Muse Digital Edition, based at the University of North Florida.</p>
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                  <country>USA</country>
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                  <settlement>Jacksonville</settlement>
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                  <collection>Viola Muse Collection (1959-18)</collection>
                  <idno>Folder 12, item 9</idno>
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                  <summary>Mathematical calculations related to the Charles Coates Interview Notes and Irene Coates Interview Notes</summary>
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               <note type="transcription">We transcribe the calculations on these two pages working roughly left to right and top to bottom.</note>
               <note type="contextual" subtype="general">We transcribe the calculations on these two pages working roughly left to right and top to bottom.</note>
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1936">1936</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> 68</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> <date when="1876"><choice><orig>76</orig><reg>1876</reg></choice></date></cell></row>
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               <note type="contextual" subtype="general">Muse wrote <mentioned>1876</mentioned> here with the final two digits only.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1876">1876</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> <date when="18765">1865</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 11</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>+</reg></choice> 6</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 17</cell></row>
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><mentioned>6</mentioned><!-- a hack to make this stand apart from other figures--></cell></row>
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            <note type="transcription">This <mentioned>6</mentioned> is written to the right of the preceding calculation.</note>
            <note type="contextual" subtype="general">This <mentioned>6</mentioned> is written to the right of the preceding calculation.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1936">1936</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> <date when="1830">1830</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 106</cell></row>
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><mentioned>71</mentioned><!-- a hack to make this stand apart from other figures--></cell></row>
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            <note type="transcription">This <mentioned>71</mentioned> is written to the left of the following calculation.</note>
            <note type="contextual" subtype="general">This <mentioned>71</mentioned> is written to the left of the following calculation.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1936">1936</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> 108</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> <date when="1828">1828</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>+</reg></choice> 71</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1899"><choice><orig>9</orig><reg>1899</reg></choice></date></cell></row>
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               <note type="contextual" subtype="general">Muse wrote <mentioned>1899</mentioned> here with the final digit only.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1865">1865</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"><choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> <date when="1828">1828</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 37</cell></row>
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1936">1936</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> <date when="1865">1865</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 71</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"><choice><orig/><reg>+</reg></choice> 39</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 110</cell></row>
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1865">1865</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"><choice><orig/><reg>+</reg></choice> 39</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1904"><choice><orig>04</orig><reg>1904</reg></choice></date></cell></row>
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               <note type="contextual" subtype="general">Muse wrote <mentioned>1904</mentioned> here with the final two digits only.</note>
            
               
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               <date when="1936">1936</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> 108</cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> <date when="1826">1826</date>
               
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            <note type="contextual" subtype="biographical">A calculation of Charles Coates's approximate birthday.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"> <date when="1865">1865</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> <date when="1826">1826</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder">  39</cell></row>
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            <note type="contextual" subtype="biographical">Apparently a calculation of Charles Coates's age when he attained freedom.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1865">1865</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> 6</cell></row>
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            <note type="contextual" subtype="biographical">Another calculation, apparently incomplete, of Irene Coates's approximate birthday, based on her statement that she was around six at time of gaining freedom. See page 8 of the Irene Coates Interview Notes.</note>
            
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               <row><cell style="noBorder"><date when="1936">1936</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="bottomBorder"> <choice><orig/><reg>&#8211;</reg></choice> <date when="1867">1867</date></cell></row>
               <row><cell style="noBorder"> 69</cell></row>
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               <note type="contextual" subtype="biographical">This calculation appears to correspond to the observation about someone dying "two years before Grant" on page 10 of the <ref target="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/3">Irene Coates Interview Notes</ref>. Grant became president in 1869.</note>       
               
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