The collection consists of notes and correspondences to and from will S. Monroe in preparation of a book he was going to call Walt Whitman and his Contemporaries. The notes are largely concerned with Whitman's contemporary authors and quotes from them on Whitman. The correspondence is to and from librarians etc. and relatives of people who knew Whitman well and deals with Monroe's attempts to gather information on Whitman.

Will Monroe was born in Hunlock, Pennsylvania on March 22, 1863. He received his A.B. from stanfora in 1894, he also attended the Universities of Jenna in Paris, Leipzig, and Grenoble. He was a teacher and principal in public schools in Pennsylvania and California and a professor of psycology at Mass. State Normal School. He lectured at Columbia and the University of Chicago. Will Monroe was a member of the International Jury of Education He was editor of Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education. He wrote a number of books--many about foreign countries. His home was in [UNK], Vermont where he died in 1939.

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