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Reviews by Ruth Coffin

 File — Box: 154, Folder: 15-16
Identifier: M037.07.02

Series Description:

From the Series:

Notebooks and printed material relating to Coffin's contributions to the works of others, together with his book reviews (1935-48, undated). The contributions include book prefaces and introductions; and essays, reviews and announcements for works such as Robert T. Sterling's Lighthouses of the Maine Coast and the Dictionary of American Biography. There are also issues of Modern Literature (1935-37) and Everyday Reading for which Coffin served as contributing editor.

Coffin's reviews include several mixed manuscript notebooks, the "Overture to a Book Review Column ..." entitled "Book Talk" for Yankee Magazine, and typescripts arranged alphabetically by author, followed by clippings similarly arranged. Coffin's are followed by several reviews written by his wife, Ruth Coffin.

Dates

  • Creation: 1842-1989, undated
  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1955

Creator

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Extent

From the Series: 0.75 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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Repository Details

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Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository

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