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Box 31

 Container

Contains 42 Results:

Young adulthood

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F1
Scope and Contents

Brian Coffey and a woman (possibly Margaret McAlpine) in the garden; Coffey and his wife with one of their infant children (probably John); several of Coffey's children at the beach; three pictures of Coffey and the students and faculty at the private boys school where he taught mathematics (St. Benedict's School in Ealing); an unidentified young man in military uniform

Later years

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F2
Scope and Contents

Fifteen photographs of Coffey, including three which were taken at his home in Southampton. In another photograph, Coffey is reading a copy of The Lace Curtain , with a man who is presumably its publisher, Michael Smith

Personal ephemera, 1922-1995

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F1
Scope and Contents

Includes a passport with photograph issued to Coffey on August 2, 1922; a certified marriage certificate for Coffey and his wife, dated October 8, 1938; a photocopy of Coffey's doctoral diploma; a letter (dated April 15, 1969), confirming Coffey's wish to remain a British citizen; a typed copy of Coffey's Last Will and Testament; and a two-page, handwritten letter from John Coffey to the TPA Pension Service informing them of Coffey's death, with copy of death certificate attached

Dates: 1922-1995

Ephemera related to Coffey's children

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F7
Scope and Contents

Includes passport applications, report cards, certificates of merit, and tuition records

Coffey's walking journal

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F8
Scope and Contents

Notes from a walk taken from Poitiers to Tours in 1935

Irish Constitution, 1937 May 3

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F9
Scope and Contents

This copy is inscribed, "To the President, University College, Dublin, Eamon de Valera," and dated May 3, 1937

Dates: 1937 May 3

The Defender

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F10A
Scope and Contents

Twelve issues of The Defender , a quarterly periodical of concerned Catholics

Brian Coffey’s copy of Jacques Maritain’s book,Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, 1953

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F10B
Scope and Contents

Includes a number of laid-in clippings

Dates: 1953

Art exhibits and programs

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F12
Scope and Contents

Includes programs for exhibits at the Southampton Art Gallery; the Tate Gallery; the Arthur Jeffress Gallery; the Guggenheim; the Waddington Gallery; and the Freud Museum. Also includes a program for the opening of Picasso's "Guernica," as well as four copies of a brochure for 107 Workshop, a small artists' studio where Hayter and Coffey collaborated on Death of Hektor

Miscellaneous ephemera

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F15
Scope and Contents

Includes an invitation to a dinner dance at Imperial College, March 24, 1961; a dried corsage, possibly from the same dance; a menu from Chez Ducotlet Restaurant; and a book jacket for The Life of Saint Dominic , by Bede Jaarrett

Miscellaneous ephemera

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F15
Scope and Contents

Includes lecture notes, articles, keys, postcards

Rejection letters, 1951-1954

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F55
Scope and Contents

189 letters. Included in this folder is a carbon copy of Coffey's curriculum vitae, a handwritten list of colleges and universities in the United States and a typed list of Canadian universities, all of whom received Coffey's vitae.

Dates: 1951-1954

Correspondence related to Saint Benedict's School, 1955-1965

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: F56
Scope and Contents

12 letters. Also includes a brochure for the school, thirty-one postcards from the Bursar's office, and a certificate which accompanied an ink stand, cigarette box, and silver tea set presented to Coffey from the students and faculty of the school

Dates: 1955-1965