Robert Peter Tristram Coffin collection, 1910-1955.

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Robert Peter Tristram Coffin collection, 1910-1955.

The collection includes poem and story manuscripts, correspondence, etchings and sketches done by Coffin, and various published materials. The collection also contains a number of photographs and a recording of Coffin reading three of his poems.

6 boxes (2 cu. ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7276188

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955

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Robert Peter Tristram Coffin grew up in Maine and attended Bowdoin College, Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York, and was Pierce Professor of English at Bowdoin College from 1935 until his death. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer prize in poetry, Coffin authored more than forty books of prose and verse. He was a founder and a faculty member of the Towle Writers' Conference at the University of New Hampshire. ...