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011bi Tou told me &lso that hs disapproved of aXeohoI* 



Cogglns: Alcohol was no issue in our family. If he 



disapproved of it» he never had to show it* We 

 just didn't have it and never missed it. Maybe 

 it was the Quaker background* 



Gilbf You zoentioned also that yoir father wrote 

 children's books and children's stories* 



Coggins: He wrote two books published by the Fenn 



Publishing Company* And sons stories* He wrote 

 for the Atlantic * for New England Magazine * for 

 Harper' s » and The Saturday Evening Post * 



Gilb! What sort of things did he write? 



Coggins I For ft* Saturday gvening Post ^ humor dealing with 

 business or politics* But for other nagazines^ 

 nestly the struggles of people within thexiselves* 



dilb: Oh, he wrote along with the Hew England School 

 he admired? 



Coggins; Yes* Hot about people having great territorial 

 adventures, but whose adventures were mostly in 

 their own meke-up* 



0ilb: What they called the New England conscience* 



Coggins J Then he wrote one story for the Atlantic that 



would be acceptable to the snail ''free -enterprisers" 

 of today* It was the story of a businessman yiho 

 refused to Join a trust because he wanted his sons 



