Papers, [ca. 1839-1921].

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Papers, [ca. 1839-1921].

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Correspondence, diaries, notes, account books, sketch books, literary manuscripts, monographs, poetry, scrapbooks, and photographs about his early life and schooling in Hawaii; voyage to the U.S. on the New Bedford whaler Rambler in 1856; student days at Williams College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; activities as a physician at Bellevue Hospital and Blackwell's Island Hospital; as a private physician under contract to the U.S. Army at U.S.A. General Hospital, Central Park, and McDougall General Hospital, Fort Schuyler; service as surgeon on board U.S.S. Sebago, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-1865; medical practice in N.Y.; part-time service as an assistant sanitary inspector; duties as editor of the New York Independent, 1871-1874; the operation of his literary agency, the New York Bureau of Revision; his service as a physician at Albert Leffingwell's Dansville, New York, sanatorium during the summer of 1887; travels to Europe; literary and social activities (Century Club, Author's Club); and Hamilton Morel Coan's service with the A.E.F. in France during World War I. Martyn Field, Daniel Coit Gilman, Henry Holt, William Dean Howells, John La Farge, Francis Lathrop, Albert Leffingwell, Henry Munson Lyman, Whitelaw Reid, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. Coan's notes and writings include manuscripts which he was to edit, such as the autobiography of Willard Parker, and Henry Munson Lyman's recollections of his early life in Hawaii.

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