Charles and Irene Coates Age and Date Calculations Viola Muse Transcription, encoding, and edition Clayton McCarl Edition Laura Heffernan Edition Tru Leverette

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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/119 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 12, item 9

Mathematical calculations related to the Charles Coates Interview Notes and Irene Coates Interview Notes.

Because these calculations do not occur within the flow of either set of notes, and because they relate to both, we have present them here as a separate item. We have preserved the images in the transcription view of the Charles Coates interview notes (as pages 19b and 20b), in order to document the material as it exists in the archive, and we include copies of the images here, renamed to correspond to this item.

Handwritten, two pages

Document transcribed and encoded following the criteria of the Viola Muse Digital Edition (violamuse.unfdhi.org), based at the University of North Florida.

We transcribe the calculations on these two pages working roughly left to right and top to bottom. We transcribe the calculations on these two pages working roughly left to right and top to bottom. 1936 – 68 761876
Muse wrote 1876 here with the final two digits only. 1876 – 1865 11 + 6 17
6
This 6 is written to the right of the preceding calculation. This 6 is written to the right of the preceding calculation. 1936 – 1830 106
71
This 71 is written to the left of the following calculation. This 71 is written to the left of the following calculation. 1936 – 108 1828 + 7191899
Muse wrote 1899 here with the final digit only. 1865– 1828 37
1936 – 1865 71+ 39 110
1865+ 39041904
Muse wrote 1904 here with the final two digits only. 1936 – 108 1826
A calculation of Charles Coates's approximate birthday. 1865 – 1826 39
Apparently a calculation of Charles Coates's age when he attained freedom. 1865 – 6
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. 1936 – 1867 69
This calculation appears to correspond to the observation about someone dying "two years before Grant" on page 10 of the Irene Coates Interview Notes. Grant became president in 1869.