Robert Peter Tristram Coffin family correspondence

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (Bowdoin 1915) was a Bowdoin College english professor (1934-1955), writer, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet. He was the sixth child in a family of ten children. His brothers were Levon, John, Ben, and Franck. His sisters were Alma, Annie, Alice, Arline, and Virginia. He married Ruth Phillip in 1918; they had four children, Mary-Alice, Margaret (Peggy), Robert Peter Tristram, Jr., and Richard. Coffin was a Pulitzer prize winning poet, writer, and English professor. He was graduated from Brunswick high school and Bowdoin College (Class of 1915), then attended Princeton (A.M. 1916), and as a Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University (A.B. 1920). While in Emgland he served to 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S Army. Coffin began his teaching career as instructor, and then professor of English at Wells College in Aurora, New York (1921-1934). He returned to Bowdoin as Pierce Professor of English (1934-1955), was a visiting lecturer at several colleges and universities from the 1930's through 1950's, and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Athens in 1953-1954. Robert P. Tristram Coffin died January 20, 1955. He was predeceased by his wife, Ruth Coffin, on April 5, 1947.