Manuscript collection of Robert Peter Tristram Coffin [manuscript], 1944-1955.

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Manuscript collection of Robert Peter Tristram Coffin [manuscript], 1944-1955.

Coffin writes to Robert Bridges submitting a story for publication. Correspondence with William Gerard Chapman and his son Gerard Chapman concerns the sale of second serial rights of Coffin's stories to the Chapmans -- Newspaper obituary, 1955 Jan. 21, of Coffin [1 item. printed] -- Programs 1948 and 1951, for speeches by Coffin [2 items. printed].

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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. ...