Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The Thomas Coates papers are mostly correspondence, but they also contain his office files as well as reports about various aspects of the school, essays, articles, sermons delivered in chapel and elsewhere, and devotions. Notable among the sermons was his farewell sermon to the student body on June 5, 1957, entitled The Cloak, the Books, and the Parchments. In 1945 a number of theologians attended a meeting in Chicago to discuss what were...