Guide to the Will S. Monroe Collection on Walt Whitman, 1928-1930 M0117

Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1999
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


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

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Biographical / Historical

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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item] Will S. Monroe Collection on Walt Whitman, M0117, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Contents

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.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Box 1, folder 1

Correspondence

 

To Monroe from: Harold Blodgett , Clara Barrus Clifton J. Furness, Emmery Holloway, Henry S. Sanders, Charles J. Glicksberg.

Container Summary: (3)

General note

number in (): number of items
Box 1, folder 2

From Monroe to: Blodgett, Beith, Barrus, Bailie, Berenson, Brown, Catel, Clifford, Eyre, Ellis, Elton, Farness, Green, Heaton, Horris Livezey, LondonTimes Editor, Saunders, Schuyberg, Stewart, Traubel, Whiteside.

Container Summary: (4)
Box 1, folder 3

Notes and Correspondence

 

1. Clipping-- Walt Whitman section: The brooklyn Deily Eagle (looth birthday) May 31, 1919

 

2. Wm D. O'Conner notes and letter to Monroe from Grace Elley Channing Feb 18, 1929

 

3. Notes on Joaquin Miller

 

4. Letter to Monroe from Edith Trowbridge Von Baur concerning five Walt Whitman letters to her father.

 

5. Copies:

 

Letter J.T. Trowbridge to W.D. O'Conner

 

Letter W.D. O'Conner to J.T.Trowbridge

 

To the editor concerning Walt whitman

 

The Soldiers etc by Walt Whitman 1865

Box 1, folder 4

Notes about: Sidney Lanier, Howard Horace Furness, George H. Boker, Carles G. Leland, Edwin O. Grover (letter), W.S. Kennedy

 

Letters to Monroe from: Harrison Morris, Mary Kennedy Foote, Florance H. Crowell,

Container Summary: (3)
 

C Chambers Blaisdell.

Box 1, folder 5

Notes about: Bronson Alcott, Edward E. Hale, Emerson, Thoreau, Frank S. Sanborn, Talcott Williams.

 

Letters to Monroe from: Dorothea Blaisdell, Thomas B. Donaldson

Container Summary: (5)
Box 1, folder 6

Notes about: R. U. Johnson, T. B. Aldrich, J. R. Lowell, J. G. Holland and quote copied to Richard Gilder, W.D. Howells, Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, William Winter, George H. Palmer, Charles E. Norton, Hamlen Garland, John Boyle O'Reilley, Horace? Scudder, George F. Lathrop, E.C. Stedman, Charles Warren Stoddard, R.H. Stoddard, Robert Underward Johnson.

Box 1, folder 7

From England

 

Notes about: Robert Buchanon, Roden Noel, William Michael Rossitti, York Powell, John Addington, Symonds, Moncure D. Conway, Emily Faithful, Frederick Locker, Wm, Morris, G.C. Macaulay

Box 1, folder 8

Notes about: Edward Carpenter, Mrs. Anne Gilcrest, William Bell Scott, Henry S. Salt

 

Corresp. to Monroe concerning Capenter: Henry W. Hevison, Gilbert Beith, Rollo G. Silver, Leonard D. Abbott, Helen Tufts Bailie, J. William LLyod, Henry Salt

Box 1, folder 9

Notes about: Swineburne, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Austin, Peter Bayne, Robert L. Stevenson, John C. Bailey, Haverlock Ellis, John Freeman

 

Letters to Monroe from: John C. Bailey, Haverlock Ellis

Box 1, folder 10

Notes about: Ernest Rhys, Edmund Grosse, Tenneson, Lionel Johnson, Rannell Rodd, C. Oscar Gridley, Edwin Arnold, Fredrik Myers, Lord Houghton, Justin McCarthy, John Morley, Edmund Yates.

 

Letters to Monroe from: James Remnell Rodd, Rose Macalay, Michael Grosse, Harold Blodgett, Edwin Myers, Francis Clarke, Margaret Clifford, O. Murry Brown, Elizabeth W. Mallet, Rollbrook Johnson, Margaret Barton, P.J. Dobell.

Box 1, folder 11

Corresp. and clippings concerning the Lancaster-Whitman Fellowship. Letters to Monroe from: Fred Nightgale, Fred Wild, will Hays, Minnie Whiteside, Arthur H. Ransome, John Ormod, W.A.H. Rinson, Emily Grace Allingham

Box 1, folder 12

Copied of English Press notices

Box 1, folder 13

From Ireland. Notes about: Edward Dowden, T.W. Rolleston, Standish O'Grady (and photo), Ramsey Coller

 

Correspondence to Monroe from: Maud Rolleston, Elizabeth D. Dowden, W.S.W. Eyre, Margaret O'Grady, D.H. Todhunter.

Box 2, folder 14

From Austrialia and New Zealand letters from: J. Macmillan Brown, Dorothy H. Stewart, Fred Schuyberg and notes on Francis Adams.

 

From Norway, Sweden, and Denmark notes concerning Whitman's work in those countries--translations etc/

 

From Holland--notes on Whitman

 

From Belgium and Switzerland--notes on Whitman

Box 2, folder 15

From France: notes and letters to Monroe from V.S. Falgette, Jean Catel, C. Cestre

 

From Italy: copies of Whitman's letters to M.W. Smith

Box 2, folder 16

From Spain and Spanish America letters from A. Torre-Rioseco, Alfred Coester, and notes

 

From Germany and Austria letters from Carl Federn and Johannes Toklaf and notes

 

From Hungary letter from D. Paul Gulyás, and notes

 

From Bulgaria letter from R.H. Marbel and notes

 

From Poland letter from W. Borowy and notes

 

From Russia letters from Mary Kelsey and Lucy L.W. Wilson

Box 2, folder 17

Notes on Whitman's views of:

 

1. his contemporaries (Matthew Arnold, Dr. Johnson, George Sand, Stevenson, Browning, Shakespear, Bryant, Hawthorn, Poe, Shelly and Keats, Longfellow, Standish O'Grady, George Riley, Lowell, E.C. Stedman, Edmond Grosse)

 

2. Oriental Influences

 

3. Religious views

 

4. Philosophy

Box 2, folder 18

Bibliographical notes and clippings concerning Whitman

Box 2, folder 19

Notes including on Walt Whitman by Santayana, James Harlan, Helen Keller

 

Letters to Monroe from: Don C. Seitz, [Patrick R. Newton] Charles F. Sixsmith, Consul General of Czechoslovakia, Mrs. Frank J. Spraug (Harriet) Charlotte Endynion Porter, Henry Hazlitt, Charles W. Bunton, W. W. [Guthree], Florence Finch Kelly, Russell Gerould, Willian E. Barton, Gamaliel Bradford, Wallace B. Nichols, Henry Raymond Mussy, Sidney, E. Morse, David McAlpin, howard Judson Hall

Box 2, folder 20

Whitman in World Literature translation of a work by Schyberg (Chpt. 4) by Mrs. G.W. Allen typescript

Box 2, folder 21

The Sleepers a poem by walt whitman, limited printing

Container Summary: 250- copies
Box 2, folder 22

Our Araby Palm Springs by J. Smeaton Chase with notes by Monroe and a bookplate with a photograph of him

Box 2, folder 23

Glass slides and contact prints of Whitman's funeral etc.

Box 2, folder 24

Monroe miscellany