Gray, Barry clerk, literary critic, poet. At his death, Robert Barry Coffin (&quot;Barry Gray&quot;) was remembered as a &quot;venerable author and Bohemian&quot; (&quot;Old &#039;Barry Gray&#039; Dead&quot; 5).  He was born in 1826 and was a descendent of the Coffin family and &quot;old Admiral Coffin&quot; of Cape Cod.  

&quot;Barry Gray&quot; was a critic for the &lt;cite&gt;Home Journal&lt;/cite&gt;, and he may have associated with famous authors, including Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry W. Longfellow.  &quot;Gray&quot; was also a frequenter of Pfaff&#039;s cellar who often sat &quot;at the dripping round-table where Walt Whitman read his &#039;Yawps&#039;&quot; alongside fellow Pfaffians, Fitz-Greene Halleck and Artemus Ward (&quot;Old &#039;Barry Gray&#039; Dead&quot; 5).  

Gray is credited with having written a &quot;large number of books&quot; and made contributions to periodicals; he wrote under the pseudonym &quot;Barry Gray&quot; and under his own name, Robert Barry Coffin.  His books include &quot;&#039;Married Life at Hillside,&#039; &#039;Out of Town,&#039; &#039;Infelicities of Married Life,&#039; and &#039;Cakes and Ale&#039;&quot; (&quot;Old &#039;Barry Gray&#039; Dead&quot; 5).


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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60410&quot;&gt;&quot;Old &amp;#039;Barry Gray&amp;#039; Dead.&quot; &lt;em&gt;The New York World&lt;/em&gt;, June 12, 1886, 5.&lt;/a&gt;
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