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Guide to the Will S. Monroe Collection on Walt Whitman, 1928-1930 M0117
M0117
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Will S. Monroe Collection on Walt Whitman
Identifier/Call Number: M0117
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1928-1930
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
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 Vermont where he died in 1939.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Will S. Monroe.
[Identification of item] Will S. Monroe Collection on Walt Whitman, M0117, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
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.
Included in the collection is a book of Monroe's with notes in it called
Our Araby Palm Strings by J. Sneaton Chase and some negative glass slides of Whitman's funeral.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.