Henry Augustus Coit, Number 487429. Private in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. (American volunteer).
New York: Private Distribution, 1917. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 31 pp, photographic portrait frontispiece & 2 plates. Quarter brown cloth and papered boards, with bronze-like cover medal impression with motto "Do Right and Fear No Man". The medal is reproduced with permission of the American Fund For French Wounded. A privatly published Memorial book for Henry Augustus Coit, [1888-1916] a prominent American volunteer in the Canadian Army. Coit was a Harvard graduate who died in WWI. The book describes official reports, letters from him and from nurses/chaplain/commanding officers while in service. "Memorial Volumes", compiled by Miss Eleanor D Monroe of Harvard Library, "It is felt that many of his friends would like to know the facts and incidents of Henry Coit's service as a volunteer in the Great War..."
Henry's father Joseph Howland Coit was a teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. After teaching, he went into the New York publishing business. He also enlisted in World War I where he attained the rank of Major.
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Presentation copy from Mrs. Coit. to William Evarts. William Maxwell Evarts (1818 – 1901), was an American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Rutherford Hayes, U.S. Attorney General under Andrew Johnson and as U.S. Senator from New York (1885 -1891). OCLC: 82585131 (only 1 library listed - Harvard). Scarce. Very good condition. Item #20430
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