Long poem published in book form in 1974 by Coffey's Advent Books; includes 18-page proof with original drawings by Sandra Hill, Nick Marsh, Derek Norman, John Parsons, and Diane Radford; one page of handwritten notes (signed by Coffey and dated November, 1972); and a typed letter from "John," the typesetter

Typed manuscripts signed. 28 pp. Long poem published by Advent Books on June 20, 1974; number 5 of an edition of 25 copies; title page includes holograph list of the recipients of the other 24 copies, including Samuel Beckett, James Hogan (the poet Augustus Young), and Anthony Rudolf of Menard Press. Advent also appeared in The Irish University Review, Special Brian Coffey Issue , 5:1 (Spring 1975): 29-109. Coffey took twenty years to write and revise this poem

26 pp. Typed manuscript with holograph notes. Also includes one page of notes regarding copyright information; published in book form in 1976 by Sugar Loaf Press, Dublin

2 pp. Typed manuscript. Short story with the following typed inscription: "From Brian Coffey, 5 Mulgrave Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Offered for publication to The Editor of The Irish Times . Stamped addressed envelope enclosed for return of MS. if unsuitable"; includes minor holograph corrections

15 pp. Photocopied typed manuscript. Inscribed "Final copy / ok by Brian Coffey / 27th May 79" Long poem published by Circle Press in 1980, with engravings by S.W. Hayter; also includes miscellaneous handwritten and typed notes, page proofs and sketches, 25 pp. [see also oversize]

1 p. Typed manuscript. Includes holograph inscription: "Begun when the whole lot came back from I.T. [ Irish Times ?]. I went to England some weeks later"

2 pp. Typed manuscript. Short story with the following typed inscription: "From Brian Coffey, 5 Mulgrave Terrace, Dub Laoghaire. 18 July, 1941. Offered for publication to The Editor of The Irish Times, Dublin. Stamped addressed envelope enclosed for return of MS. if unsuitable"; two copies

Issue of The Niagra Magazine (No. 7) in which Coffey’s poem, "For What For Whom Unwanted" appeared

Issue of University Review (Vol. III, No. 3) containing Coffey’s "Four Poems." Poems include: "Ones," "The Inside Story," "Recourse to Fiction," and "The Monument." Plus laid-in autograph note

18 pp. Typed manuscripts signed. Inscribed on title page, "Brian Coffey / 48 Alma Road / South Hampton." Includes photographs of original drawings by Coffey

8 pp. Autograph manuscripts signed. Notes and sketches; inscribed on title page, "Glutz, Started 25/5/68" See F100 for a cassette recording of Coffey reading excerpts from "Glutz"

Autograph manuscripts signed. 22 pp. Poem, sketches, and notes; also includes one page of a second draft

12 pp. Typed manuscript signed. and autograph manuscript signed. Originally published in 1970 in the Dublin-based literary magazine, Lace Curtain ; republished in Poems and Versions, 1929-1990

Autograph manuscripts signed. 60 pp. Collection of poems including "Iceburg," "The Audit," "The Imperative of Choice Disarms," "His Mistake," and "Margaret"

"Typed manuscripts signed and Autograph manuscripts signed. 13 pp. (5 copies of each poem) "In Sight of All" appeared in Lace Curtain (Spring 1974): 35-37, includes two issues with corrections

Typed manuscript signed. 4 pp. Long poem with holograph corrections

Typed manuscript signed. 1 p. Possibly one of many editorials sent by Coffey to The Irish Times

Long poem in handmade booklet with illustrations, 11 pp.

Offprints from The Irish University Review, Joyce Centenary Issue (Spring 1982); description of Coffey's meetings with James Joyce; 3 copies

Typed manuscript and autograph manuscript. 10 pp. Notes, some typed pages; a discussion of the work of Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett which appeared in the literary magazine, Cyphers , in 1980; also includes poem by the same title, signed by Coffey and dated 1978

Typed manuscript photocopy. 2 pp. (3 copies) One copy inscribed "re Poetry Chicago / I also send The Prayers / James [Hogan]/ P.S. Sorry about quality of PCs (just my fax) / I sent C. Agree better copies!"

Autograph manuscripts signed. 4 pp. Dated February 28, 1938

Autograph manuscript signed. 1 p. Handwritten draft of poem written on the back of a postcard of a British Museum reproduction of Wu Wei , a Chinese painting on silk; signed by the poet and dated 28/2/68; published in Coffey's Selected Poems (1971) and Poems and Versions, 1929-1990 (1991).

Issue of University Review (Vol. III, No. 8) containing Coffey’s article: "A Note on Rat Island"

Typed manuscript signed. 2 pp. Short story with the following typed note: "Sent by Brian Coffey, 5 Mulgrave Terrace, Dun Laoghaire. 31 July 1941. Submitted for publication to the Editor of The Irish Times, 31 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. Stamped addressed envelope enclosed for return of MS. if unsuitable. About 1600 words"

Typed manuscript. 1 p. Includes the following typed note: "Sent by Brian Coffey, 5 Mulgrave Terrace, Dun Laoghaire. 29th July 1941. Submitted for publication to the Editor of The Irish Times, 31 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. Stamped addressed envelope enclosed for return of MS. if unsuitable"

An offprint of Coffey's review of Georges Lemaitre's The Primeval Atom (New York, 1950) which appeared in The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy ; one of several reviews written during Coffey's tenure at Saint Louis University

Typed manuscript signed. dated September 1, 1968 1 p. A poem originally published in The Irish University Review , 3:3 (1963): 10-16.

Typed manuscript signed. 10 pp. Short story first published in The National Student in the late 1920s, under the pseudonym "Coeuvre"

Typed manuscript signed and autograph manuscript signed. 16 pp. Long poem dedicated to Paul Leautaud

Autograph manuscript signed. 22 pp. Long poem

Typed manuscript signed. 2 pp.

Typed manuscript signed. 6 pp.

Typed manuscript signed. 5 pp. (plus 1 photocopy) Also includes copy of Topos and Other Poems, published in 1981 by Mammon Press. See issue of The Lace Curtain (1973) in Box 6 F65 for a serial publication of this poem

Autograph manuscript signed. 10 pp.

Typed manuscript signed. 2 pp. (2 copies) Includes the following typed note: "Brian Coffey, 5 Mulgrave Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. 25th July 1941. Submitted for publication to the Editor of the Irish Times , Dublin. Stamped, addressed envelope enclosed for return of MS. if unsuitable;" also includes the holograph note, "Not Sent"

Typed manuscript signed. 1 p. Poem, with typed note at the end, "To be recited with great feeling in a nasalised Dublin accent"

Autograph manuscript signed. 10 pp. Small, bound volume, signed and dated June 6, 1971

Autograph manuscript signed. dated 1933, Sorbonne. Published by Jeanette Monnier in Paris in 1933 as a Christmas greeting card

Typed and handwritten, including "Her Death," "Painterly," "Toolin Replies" and others

Autograph manuscript signed and typed manuscript signed. Holograph and typed translations interleaved throughout Coffey's own copy of Alcools . These translations remain unpublished

Coffey's translation was originally published in 1970 by Advent Books, and appeared in a 1975 issue of The Irish University Review . Includes 15-page proof and the original cover artwork by Hazel McKinley

Typescripts signed with holograph notations (3 copies); also includes the typed manuscript signed of Coffey's introduction to the volume which was never published

Coffey's holograph and typed translations interleaved throughout his personal copy of the collection; these translations were also unpublished

Typescript with holograph notations (2 copies). Also includes a copy of The Poet's Voice 3:3 (1988) in which it was published

Typescripts signed, dated November 5, 1972 (also includes 2 photocopies) originally published in Toward Harmony: A Celebration for Tony O'Malley

MenCard, published in 1987 by The Menard Press, London; reprinted in 1990 in Coffey's Poems of Mallarmé

Typescript and holograph copies of poems, including "The Tomb of Edgar Poe," "Sea Salt Breath," and "The Gift of the Poem"; Typescript of introduction by Brian Coffey; photocopies of Mallarmé's poems in the French; most of these poems and the introduction appear in Coffey's Poems of Mallarmé (Dolmen Press, 1990)

Autograph manuscripts signed of "The Unhoping Song," inscribed on title page "draft one". Typed manuscript signed of Twenty Love Poems , 12 pp. One issue of Irish University Review (Spring 1973) in which these appeared is included

Typed manuscript signed and autograph manuscript signed. Includes "The Joy-Mad Ship" by Arthur Rimbaud; "The Wasted Wine," by Paul Valery; "The Heart, the Water Untroubled," by Yves Bonnefoy; and "The Rocks," by Guillevic among others

Roughly 325 pages of notes, rough drafts of poems and stories, photographs of Coffey's grandchildren and his Paris friends, letters from friends and fellow poets, newspaper clippings, and sketches. Items of note include five postcards from Samuel Beckett and a typescript of Beckett's poem, "Neither," dated September, 1976

Pasted to the inside cover is a child's drawing of a dog, with Coffey's holograph note: "sent by Ailve, 14.1.76." This 478-page book contains notes, typescripts, sketches, and newspaper clippings. Items of interest include two typescript poems by James Hogan, "Dream House" and "Old Woman of Beare"; a typescript of Coffey=s poem, "Eddies in the Memory"; and a holograph poem titled "From Prospect Road," dated 27/1/76

Inscribed on the inside cover is the following note: "Started 19.IV.71 / Practice Book." This self book contains mostly notes for stories and poems, as well as several journal entries, sketches, newspaper clippings, typescripts and letters. Items of note include a handwritten poem by Coffey, "Call the Darkness Home"; three typescript poems of James Hogan, "Family Scene," "Courtship," and "The Return"; and a newspaper clipping from The Evening Herald , November 25, 1972, about an upcoming reading of poetry of the most influential Irish poets of the 1930s, including Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey, and Nial Montgomery

Inscribed on the inside cover: "This volume here is self book 2. Self book 1 is in a filing box in study and was made 73/4. Earlier attempts have now been destroyed. It is signed and dated, "June 1974." In addition to the numerous newspaper clippings, photographs, and sketches, this 445-page book contains several typed and holograph poems. Among those holograph poems by Coffey are "As Ye Come From the Holy Land of Walsing Home," "Rose-Checked Laura," "All Over Again," and "The Pheonix." Typescripts by Coffey include "The Prayers," "Registers," and "The Brain-Scoop Song." Also included are 14 typescript poems from James Hogan's collection, Danta Gradha , as well as typescripts of his poems, "The Matron," and "Inkquest (A Dreadful Warning to the Poets of Urbane Warfare)." There are also two postcards from Beckett

Inscribed on the inside cover, "Started 25.ii.77." This book contains sketches and notes for Death of Hektor , as well as notes for "Moicel and Soim." Also included are typescripts of the following Coffey poems: "The Prayers," "Poem," "Xenia," "Tales from Topos" and "Interecine," which is signed and dated, 12/7/78. There is one Beckett postcard in this book, dated 8/10/78

Items of note include an off-print of Coffey's "Extracts from Concerning Making," which appeared in Lace Curtain No.6 (Autumn 1973); issue is included. Also several reviews of Coffey's Death of Hektor and Samuel Beckett's Rockaby ; one copy of The Niagra Magazine, Robert Creeley: A Dialogue , No.9 (Fall 1978); and a photocopy of J.C.C. Mays's "Passivity and Openness in Two Long Poems by Brian Coffey," from Irish University Review . "Concerning Making" also contains a typescript of Alain Suberchicot's essay, "La Poesie Britannique: Le Mythe Prolonge chez Brian Coffey and Jonathan Griffin," inscribed "Dear Brian--to appear in a French magazine. / Don't know which. How are you? / All best, A"; and a typescript of James Hogan's "No.28" of Danta Gradha , inscribed "To Brian + Bridget / Best Wishes, James"

This scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, poems, essays, correspondence, and ephemera, as well as extensive material related to the death of Coffey's close friend, Denis Devlin. Items of note include one letter from Devlin, a newspaper clipping of Devlin's obituary, several letters from fellow poets and publishers concerning the possible publication of Devlin's collected works, and a telegram dated 21 August 1959, from "Moya" informing the Coffeys of Devlin's death

Included in this scrapbook are newspaper and magazine clippings, blank postcards, and several small drawings and sketches. Items of note include a drawing signed by Coffey, inscribed, "The Worshippers"; a copy of the French literary journal, La Bête Noire ; and a full-page article from The Sunday Times , October 22, 1961, "The Greatest Painter of the Age Unlocks his Treasure House: Picasso's Picasso"

This scrapbook is comprised of newspaper clippings, political cartoons, and several drawings by Coffey's grandson, Benjamin. Many of the clippings deal with American politics, including an extensive article, "Who's Who Among Those Involved in the Watergate Affair"

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings on a wide variety of subjects, including poverty, pornography, sexual ethics, and the role of religion in schools. Also included is a copy of The Latin Mass Society Newsletter , 1970

Comprised mostly of newspaper clippings, this scrapbook also contains an obituary for Irish poet Austin Clarke; and a typescript poem by Robert Graves, "The Hedgepig"

This scrapbook contains mostly newspaper clippings, several drawings by Coffey's grandchildren, and a reproduction of a painting of a nativity scene, inscribed on the back, "The Coffeys / Happy Christmas 1965 / Love to you all / From Nonna"

Comprised of newspaper and magazine clippings, this scrapbook also contains a photograph of Coffey taken in 1965, an article about Coffey's poetry reading in commemoration of the publication of Selected Poems , and a copy of The It Book of Drugs , published in 1972

This scrapbook is comprised of newspaper clippings exclusively, and concerns such topics as Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal, Russian poetry under Stalin, and the recent exhibits of Andy Warhol

This scrapbook includes newspaper and magazine clippings and articles on mostly political and/or religious subjects. Also included is a supplement to The Irish Times , dated May 23, 1967, on the history of University College, Dublin

Included in this scrapbook is an extended family tree (in Coffey's handwriting); a newspaper clipping in commemoration of Beckett winning the Nobel Prize; a typescript of "The Ballad of Finnegans Wake"; and many newspaper clippings. Among these clippings are Overpopulation and the Diet of Fear," "Religious Intolerance Still Grows," "Man's 50-50 Survival Chance," and "Television and Sex Education"

This scrapbook contains handwritten notes, poems, essays, letters, postcards, newspaper clippings, drawings, sketches, photographs and ephemera. Items of note include typed and holograph copies of Coffey poems including, "Credidimus," "Pheonix Morning," "The Prayers," "Kind," and a typed, signed manuscript of "And All Will Go Down Together, Administrators and All"; photographs of Coffey, his grandchildren, and Coffey with fellow poet, George Reavey; holograph notes for "Glutz" and "Kroid: A T/V S/F Version of the Birth, Education, Career, and Final End of a Politician"; and letters from such friends and family members as Margaret McAlpine, Agatha Coffey, and James Hogan

This scrapbook begins with the following inscription: "71 years old today, and beginning these writings for my wife, my children, my grandchildren, and those who come after them in the succession--as much of what I am as can reasonably be expressed in words, if the time available--how long?--allows . . . [unintelligible] . . . What do I see as coming in this book-- 1) copies of the poems I like, including my own, 2) translations of poems, 3) stories . . . 4) notes that might have been the philosophical work I once planned, 5) new thoughts on events and books, 6) collage jokes, 7) expressions and opinions, 8) drawings, 9) anything else". Items of note include journal entries, notes for future projects, notes related to Advent Books, and three original drawings, "Ain't She Sweet / Nowhere She Isn't," and two untitled drawings, all of which appear in The Big Laugh . The scrapbook also contains several typescripts, including two poems by James Hogan, "Animal Performers" and "By My Own Hand"; a poem by Jean Reavey, "In Memorium George Reavey, May 1, 1907 - August 11, 1976"; and an anonymous article on the life of Jacques Maritiain, the French Philosopher under whom Coffey studied at l'Institut Catholique de Paris

An old phone book with newspaper clippings, essays and other ephemera pasted to its pages. Items of note include an autograph letter, signed from Deirdre Bair, concerning her new book, Samuel Beckett: A Biography ; the letter is written on the back of a press release from Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, publishers of the book. Laid in the scrapbook is the original book jacket for the Beckett biography, published in 1978. Also of interest is a typed letter, signed from Bair, responding to Coffey's argument that the Beckett book jacket is "all wrong"; dated January 23, 1978

This scrapbook is inscribed on the cover "Scrapbook >87" and is made of construction paper. It contains newspaper clippings, notes, essays, poems, letters, postcards, sketches, and ephemera. Items of note include a typescript of James Hogan's poem, "On Failing to Pick Up a Hitch-Hiker Who Looked Like Jack Kerouac," dated 27/11/84; signed typescripts of Michael Smith's poems, "Mr. Peregrine's Sunday Stroll," "In the Shadow of the Cathedral," "Street Elegy," "Necklace," "Time to Go," "Catdream," and a SUNY Buffalo Christmas Broadside, dated December 1983, with a poem and illustration by Susan Howe. Typescripts of several short stories by Maurice O'Riordan are also laid in, including "Swan Song," "The Dry Fly of an Angler's Dream," "Mistress Pusskins--My Cat." In addition, the scrapbook includes a typed letter, dated June 21, 1984, from Laurence Cassidy of The Arts Council, awarding Coffey a bursary of 5,000 pounds to assist with the composition of The Prayers; as well as letters and/or postcards from Samuel Beckett, Parkman Howe, J.C.C. ("Jim") Mays, Don Coffey, and others.

Items of note in the latter half of the scrapbook include a photocopied article, "Remembering Jacques Maritain," by Wallace Fowlie, from The American Scholar , 56:3 (Summer 1987): 355-366; and a photocopied chapter, "Overcoming Metaphysics," from an unknown source

This scrapbook/ diary is comprised of letters, newspaper clippings, and pages of handwritten notes and poems, in both English and French

Inscribed on the title page, To Brian / For whatever purpose in 1985 / Love from Bridget," this diary includes extensive notes for "Concerning Making" and other projects, poems, and sketches

This Scrapbook contains extensive handwritten notes, letters, reviews, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Items of note include reviews of Coffey's Death of Hektor and The Poems of Mallarmé , an obituary for Irish poet Niall Montgomery, and letters from Margaret McAlpine, Jim Mays, and James Hogan

This scrapbook is inscribed, "This ledger once owned by a M. Vendles whose name goes back to 1066--given to me by John Bulford, wood worker, artist, husband of a Miss Joy Vendles--the family name was dying out. The pages are, I hope, to contain the notes for "Concerning Making," including "The Prayers" in [unintelligible]." The ledger includes newspaper clippings, reviews, and letters.

Items of note include a newspaper clipping of an editorial written by Bridget Coffey detailing her friendship with Carl Jung, Sunday Times , July 1953; an off-print of Coffey's poem, "Xenia," which appeared in The Irish University Review , Spring 1978; a photocopied essay, "Fragmentation and Wholeness," by David Bohm, professor of Physics at Birbeck College; and several letters from Margaret McAlpine, James Hogan, and Anthony Rudolf, among others

Inscribed on the first page, "To my owner, I am a writing book waiting to be filled. Don't let me down. Please," this scrapbook is comprised of newspaper clippings, letters, notes, essays, reviews, and ephemera

Items of note include letters from James Hogan, Don Coffey, Harry Gilonis, Margaret McAlpine, Jim Mays, and Margaret Hogan; reviews of Coffey's Advent , Chanterelles , and The Poems of Mallarmé , Augustus Young's The Credit , and Susan Schreibman's The Collected Poems of Thomas McGreevy ; artwork and an obituary of Asa Benveniste; and fourteen pages of typed, single-spaced notes about Missouri (possibly used in conjunction with "Missouri Sequence")

This scrapbook is comprised of newspaper clippings, essays, reviews, letters, and ephemera. Items of note include a typed manuscript of Coffey's "The Faun: An Afternoon" with holograph notes; one copy of Pages , a small literary magazine edited by Robert Sheppard; holograph notes for an essay entitled "Poetry-Ireland"; and letters from Margaret McAlpine, Susan Schreibman, Neil Baldwin, Harry Gilonis, James Hogan and Jim Mays

This scrapbook is unique in the sense that everything in it is related to one event: Coffey's 86th birthday. Included in the book are photographs of Coffey and his family, and cards and letters sent by Coffey's children and grandchildren as well as many longtime friends.

This folder contains notes, poems, collages, sketches, and small paintings. Among those poems included in this folder are "Liminal," "Image as a Young Lady," "Don't Kick the Dog," "Antiochus Got an Ague," "At Home," and "On the Roof-Tops." All items were originally housed in the same folder, and they have been left in the order in which they were found.

This folder contains forty-two pages of material, pasted to the leaves from a 1977 Page-a-Day Diary. Items of note include a photocopy of Parkman Howe's review of the Brian Coffey Special Issue of the Irish University Review , newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, sketches, and several typed and handwritten poems.

This folder contains 16 pp. of scrapbook items, including a signed copy of James Hogan's poem, "To the Poet (After Pushkin)" with the following autograph note: "Dear Brian, thought the above might amuse. Trust your French sojourn went well. Regards to Bridget, James." Also included are photographs of Coffey's grandchildren, a two-page photocopy of "A Prayer for Creative Thinkers," and miscellaneous notes and newspaper clippings

Most of the material in this folder is related to the publication of Coffey's poetry collection, Chanterelles . Included are several letters from Billy Mills, Colin Pritchard, Margaret McAlpine, Neil Baldwin, Felix Aprahamian and others; two poems by Colin Pritchard, "New Passions" and "The Sum of Human Misery"; a theater program for Samuel Beckett's Comedie and John Paul Sartre's Huis-Clos ; and miscellaneous notes and poems.

Contains newspaper clippings, notes, children's paintings and drawings, and sketches

This folder contains notes for poems and essays (including "Concerning Making"), drawing and sketches, and a photocopy of Gerald Murphy's article for the Journal of Irish Studies , entitled "Notes on Aisling Poetry," 1939

Inscribed on the cover, "October 81 / Sad Little Mary." The book contains only two pages of sketches

This folder contains mostly newspaper clippings, including a review of the poetry of Robert Graves; several obituaries for Coffey's friend, Thomas MacGreevy; and articles about the McCarthy trials and the House Un-American Activities Committee

This folder contains newspaper clippings that span almost 30 years. Highlights include an undated obituary for French scientist Jacques Perrin under whom Coffey studied while living in Paris in the 1930s; several editions of The Tablet , including vol. 221, (Special Christmas Edition), and vol. 222, (dated February 3, 1968); a copy of the November 21, 1942, Times Literary Supplement featuring the poetry of Stephen Spender; and many other clippings dealing with political, religious, or literary subject matter

This folder contains mostly editorials, on subjects ranging from the use of nuclear weapons to the importation of milk from France. Several editorials include handwritten notes by Coffey: "Does God Exist: Faith Gets a Lift," "Why Politicians are all Against Real Education," and "The Church, the Kremlin, the anti-Christ"

Economics, politics, and religion are the topics most prevalent among these newspaper clippings. The folder also includes the "Southampton Postal News 1992," as well as several articles about James Joyce, including Ulick O'Connor's, "What Joyce Learned from the Jesuits"

Coffey reading selections from his 1974 poem; recorded by Alan Lambourne of the Hospital Broadcasting trust; removed from the collection and housed with sound recordings

Brian Coffey reading selected poems of Dylan Thomas and ee cummings, as well as some of his own translations of French poet, Paul Éluard. Also included are readings from Coffey's own work, including Mindful of You , Glutz , and The Big Laugh ; removed from the collection and housed with sound recordings

Engraving by Hayter for Death of Hektor , 8.5" x 11.75"

Engraving by Hayter for Death of Hektor ; though unsigned, this engraving is clearly one of Hayter's, 8.5" x 11.75"

Engraving by Hayter for Death of Hektor , 8.5" x 11.5"

Engraving by Hayter for Death of Hektor , 8.5" x 11.5"

Paintings and drawings by Coffey's children, including Ann, Mary, Kathleen, Joseph, Peter, and John

One drawing from grandson Ben, and another inscribed in an adult's hand, "To cheer up Grandad Brian, 2.6.75." Additional drawings by Coffey's grandchildren can be found in the Self Books and scrapbooks

Paintings, drawings, and collages

Sketches, prints, and lithographs. Includes a John Parsons "Monster" illustration for his book with Brian Coffey, as well as a Parsons ink and watercolor drawing

Typed manuscript signed with some holograph corrections. Later Published as "Brian Coffey: An Interview" in Eire Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies . 13:1 (1978): 113-123.

Typed manuscript signed. Also includes two-page autograph letter from Howe to Coffey, dated June 21, 1978

Form Books Occasional Paper No.5, published in late April 1995 to mark the death of Brian Coffey; cover from a print by Coffey; also includes his poem "Glendalough"

Typed manuscript signed, photocopy. Published in Etudes Anglaises: Grande Bretagne, Etats Unis, Paris 40:2 (1987): 154-166.

Typed manuscript signed, photocopy

Typed manuscript signed. Inscribed by Coffey "Translations / by Sam B. / Éluard"

Twenty-four original drawings by Coffey's daughter, Ann; with one-page, handwritten letter from Ann to her father, signed and dated December 1, 1976

Six stories written by Don Coffey, most inscribed to Brian Coffey. Includes: "Phoebe: The Gentle Dragon," 1989 "Unknown Territory," 1990 "A Tale of Long Ago," 1991 "The Autobiography of a Boiled Egg," 1991 "Satanic Justice," 1992 "Gastronomic Verses. The A. B. C. of Sweetmeats," 1993 (with attached letter)

Published as Christmas Broadside Number Eleven, part of an annual series by The Friends of the Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, signed by the poet

Broadside, published as Christmas Broadside Number Ten, part of an annual series by the Lockwood Memorial Library, State Univ. of N.Y. at Buffalo

Autograph manuscripts signed

Proof of small poetry collection published by Inheritance Press, Trenton, NC, 1977

Typed manuscripts, signed of the following poems: "Barn Storming," "In Praise of Boiling," "Inventing a Happy Ending," and "Field Mice: A Love Poem"; also includes one-page typed letter signed, from Howe to Coffey, dated January 22, 1982

Advent Books page proofs with corrections

Broadside published by Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986

Small literary magazine for "good writing and translations," published in San Francisco

Typed manuscripts signed inscribed "For Brian Coffey / Best Regards, Peter Russey / Have heard wonders of you from Richard Burns over the past ten years / Purdue University / 1977"

Included in this folder are: Mina Loy's "English Rose" and "July in Vallombrosa"; Marsden Hartley's "The Fork of Annie"; Roy Campbell's "Autumn"; and "Extracts from Too Quick for Life ," by an unknown author. Also included are handwritten collections of poetry by Johan Ritus (36 pp.) and Stephen Spender (22 pp.)

Typed manuscripts signed. Also includes one-page, typed letter signed from MacLeod to "Decker," (publisher James E. Decker of Prairie City, Ill.); with the following holograph note written in the margin: "But I want to feature MacDiarmid." Includes extensive holograph revisions by MacLeod

Off-print from "Purpose"

Photocopied article from unknown source

Newspaper clippings from The Listener , November 11-December 16, 1982

Photocopy from unknown journal

Typed manuscript signed. Also includes one-page holograph letter signed, from Howe to Coffey, dated August 24, 1976

Typed manuscript signed

Photocopied from Southern Journal of Philosophy , Spring 1968; inscribed, "To Brian Coffey with best wishes from John, Jerry, and Benedict Spinoza"

Typed manuscript signed

Off-print, inscribed "For Brian Coffey, with respect and affection, Jim Mays"

Typed manuscript signed. Also includes The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal , July 16, 1938

Typed manuscript signed, photocopy

With typed letter signed, 1969 October 13, 1 p. to Coffey from Seaman

Autograph letter signed. Baynes is Coffey's father-in-law; renowned psychologist and one-time partner of Carl Jung

Coffey’s daughter. Includes three letters and four postcards written by Agatha, plus four cards sent to her, and a cassette tape sent by her to Brian and Bridget Coffey

Coffey’s daughter. Includes one letter and a photocopy of plans for the renovation of her house, plus eight postcard written by Ann to friends and family and twenty-four postcards sent to her

Includes forty-six postcards written by Coffey to his wife, children and occasionally a friend. Also nine postcards written by Brian Coffey by his mother and seven calling cards, two of Coffeys and the rest given to him by others

Coffey’s wife. Includes three letters and forty-nine postcards written by Bridget Coffey to friends and family. Many of the postcards undated. There is also a letters from "Chris" (1992) to Bridget and nine postcards to Bridget from her mother

Coffey’s daughter. Includes two cards written by Brigid and three postcards sent to her

Includes two postcards written by Dominic to the Coffeys and eleven postcards sent to him by others, including Brian and Bridget Coffey

Coffey’s brother. Includes twenty-three letters and ten postcards written by Don Coffey to Brian

Coffey’s son. Includes seven letter or cards and twenty postcards written by Joe (and wife Lilian) to his family

Coffey’s son. Includes two letters and two postcards written by John to family and two postcards sent of John, plus a letter from the Archdioceses of St. Louis

Coffey’s daughter. Includes two letters, six postcards and three cassette tapes written by Kathy to her parents, plus two fragments of letters written by Brian Coffey to his daughter. Also includes a letter from her parents on cassette tape and five postcards sent to her by family and friends

Coffey’s daughter. Includes seventeen letters and cards written by Mary to her family and one postcard sent to her

Coffey’s sister. Includes seven postcards written by Maud to Brian Coffey and her father Denis Coffey, plus an obituary card (1964)

Includes thirty-eight postcards, letters, cards, and artwork by Coffey’s grandchildren, plus a comic book, The Adventures of Fat Freddy’s Cat

Children of J.C.C. (Jim) Mays, university professor and close friend of Coffey. Includes nine postcards, letters, and a limited edition handmade book, "Tiggy’s Book"

Longtime friend of Coffey. 35 letters

62 letters

19 letters and postcards. Includes signed typescripts of the following poems: "Psalm," "The Rationale," "Fatherhood," "Where Responsibilities Begin," and "Grave Yards"

One postcard

Manager, National Poetry Society Bookshop, London. 7 letters and one postcard

One postcard

Irish poet Augustus Young. 34 letters and 39 postcards. Also includes typescripts of the following poems: "Beast Poems," "The Idyll," "Coppy Copy," "Pavane for a Defunct Infant," "The Modern Colonial Boy is not Wild," "Woodflesh," "Smoe Snodrops," and "Olden Days"

87 letters and postcards, plus photographs

13 letters and one postcard. Also includes a typescript of Howe's review of the Irish University Review's Special Brian Coffey Issue , which was later published in Hibernia . Also includes typescripts of the following poems: "Chicken Supreme," "The Landscape of Childhood," "Iceburgs," "You are Flying Home," "Volcano," and "Healing the Old Wound."

Autograph letter signed

Autograph letter signed

14 letters, postcards and notes, as well as "MenCards" printed by Rudolf's Menard Press

5 letters. Also includes her business card, as well as a typescript of the poem "Famine Roads: in memory of Bernard Croke"

12 letters and postcards. New Writers' Press

3 letters

35 letters

11 letters

10 letters

27 letters

5 letters

32 letters. Also includes an undated cassette from "Roberta" containing music and poetry readings, as well as a letter on cassette from Coffey to his grandson, Aaron, sent from Southampton to the United States

74 letters. Includes letters of commendation from friends and fellow writers and letters from publishers and booksellers; also included are several letters from Workshop 107, the studio where Coffey and Hayter worked on Death of Hektor

30 letters. Most letters in this folder detail Coffey's inability to find adequate housing for his family due to a housing shortage in the area and other difficulties around the time his resignation in 1952

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.

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