Box 31
Contains 42 Results:
Young adulthood
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
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
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
Bank statements and financial records
Income tax receipts
Miscellaneous receipts
Ephemera related to Coffey's children
Includes passport applications, report cards, certificates of merit, and tuition records
Coffey's walking journal
Notes from a walk taken from Poitiers to Tours in 1935
Irish Constitution, 1937 May 3
This copy is inscribed, "To the President, University College, Dublin, Eamon de Valera," and dated May 3, 1937
The Defender
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
Includes a number of laid-in clippings
Art exhibits and programs
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
Advertisements and catalogs
Blank postcards
Miscellaneous ephemera
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
Includes lecture notes, articles, keys, postcards
Southampton Poetry Lecture, "Yevgeny Yevtushenko", undated
"The Morning Star Folios," First Series, 1990
Publicity flier
Joseph Hemards'Chansons de Salles de Garde
Specimen pages
Dhirendra Mohan Datta,The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
Publicity flier
Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters
Brochure and membership information
Rejection letters, 1951-1954
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.
Correspondence related to Saint Benedict's School, 1955-1965
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