deTOur books* There weren't so many to devoiir* 

 It was the Hew Bngland group we looked up to in 

 those days* 



Ollht Who? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? 



Cogginsi Vhlttler and Lowell and Edward Everett Hale, 

 Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Margaret Beland, 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes* Mary S* Wilkim, 

 Thonas Bailey Aldrich, Williast Dean Howells, 

 Henry Jaiass^ As Z reeall some of the people in 

 their books, their adventures were largely 

 struggles with their consciences. 



0ilbs And that's the sort of thing you grew up with? 



Coggins: Xes* 



Church«"»Unitarian 



Gilbt Did you attend a ohtireh i^hen you wez*e a boy? 



Coggins: My father's mother's family had been Quakers, 

 but my grandmother went over to the Unitarian 

 Church* We weren't what you would call a very 

 churchy family. Part of our life, I think, was 

 made interesting by the contact with the church* 

 My father was president of the local Unitarian 

 Association, idiieh often had interesting speakers* 

 I still hold the vivid image of Julia Ward Howe 



