Handouts

Records relating to Coffin as professor and teacher including lecture notes, schedules, syllabi, registers, examinations, etc.; arranged by institution, then alphabetically within each.

Wells College (1921-34) contains class records, and information on the establishment of an English Honors Course; Coffin's manuscript notes for a discussion on his faculty position; an anonymous play; and printed material relating to the college. (See also the Oxford notebook, which contains some material on the Wells years.)

Bowdoin College (1934-55) contains class records, including information on a World War II Air Force class; faculty notices and reports; manuscript notes; and printed event programs, memorial pamphlets, historical sketches, prize competition flyers, and other archival items.

The University of Cincinnati (1951) section contains material on Coffin as Elliston Professor; and that of the University of Athens (1953-54) includes documents concerning his travels and the Fulbright grant, schedules of his public lectures, and some class records. (The text of Coffin's Athens lectures can be found in the lecture series).

These are followed by material concerning summer programs at the University of New Hampshire Writers Conference (1938-55) and the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony (1947-54), including promotional material, schedules and lecture notes.