Wilfred H. Munro Papers, 1891-1932

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John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Published in 2023

Collection Overview

Title: Wilfred H. Munro Papers
Date range: 1891-1932
Creator:
Extent: .25 Linear Feet
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Collection number: AMS.1UF.M2

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Biographical / Historical note

Wilfred Harold Munro was a professor of history at Brown University. He was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1849. He attended Mowry and Goff's English and Classical School and graduated from Brown in 1870. After college, Munro taught at De Veaux College in Niagara Falls, was associate principal of St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City in 1871, spent some time in Central and South America, was principal of the Academic Institute in Le Roy, New York, from 1875 to 1879, and returned to De Veaux College as president from 1881 to 1889. He resumed his study of history at Freiburg and Heidelburg in 1890 and 1891, and in 1891 began his teaching career at Brown as associate professor of history. His title was changed to professor of European history in 1899. He was appointed the first director of University Extension in 1890. He retired from teaching in 1911. He died on August 9, 1934 in Providence.

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Contact information: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

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Inventory

I. I. Manuscripts

Container Description Date
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder I.1 Academic Hoods
Contents Note: Description of hoods adopted for use of graduates of Brown University.

English.

II. II. Letters by Munro.

Container Description Date
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder II.1 McConnell, Gertrude Allen
English.
 1932 January 23

III. III. Letters by others

Container Description Date
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.1 American Institute of Civics
Contents Note: Notice of his election as a councilor of the American Institute of Civics. Signed by John F. Covington, registrar.

English.
 1893 June 30
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.2 Bicknell, Thomas Williams
Contents Note: Will not attend alumni dinner; disapproval of last year's dinner.

English.
 1922 May 16
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.3 Bolles, Frank
English.
 1893 March 27
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.4 Camp, Walter to Sharpe, Lucian
Contents Note: Explains the Financial Union system at Yale.

English.
 1893 April 08
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.5 Camp, Walter
Contents Note: Account of meeting was published in the Sun asks why he was not given permission to publish.

English.
 1900 March 12
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.6 Carroll, Charles
Contents Note: Thanks him for efforts on his behalf.

English.
 1916 January 17
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.7 Cleaveland, H. G. to Sharpe, Lucian
Contents Note: Written from Ann Arbor, giving prices of tickets to the ball games.

English.
 1893 March 27
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.8 Dwight, Timothy
Contents Note: Declines invitation to Phi Beta Kappa banquet.

English.
 1894 January 6
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.9 Eliot, Charles William
Contents Note: Will attend meeting of Association in New England; suggests topic for speech.

English.
 1891 September 24
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.10 Fisher, George Park
Contents Note: Declining invitation.

English.
 1893 November 09
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.11 Fisher, George Park
Contents Note: Declining invitation to Phi Beta Kappa dinner.

English.
 1894 March 04
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.12 Fretwell, John
Contents Note: Writes of his work for Transylvania and the aid given him by Miss Carolina Richmond.

English.
 1908 April 15
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.13 Gates, Merrill Edwards
Contents Note: Will bring colleague, Prof. Anson D. Morse, to meeting in Providence.

English.
 1891 October 19
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.14 Goodwin, William Watson
Contents Note: Regrets he cannot attend meeting of Phi Beta Kappa on January 18.

English.
 1893 December 27
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.15 Harkness, Albert
Contents Note: Unable to attend Phi Beta Kappa banquet.

English.
 1900 February 25
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.16 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Contents Note: Thanks him for compliment concerning his paper.

English.
 1907 December 19
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.17 Wayland, Heman Lincoln
Contents Note: Declining invitation.

English.
 1894 March 03
Box [3 1236 09433 0571] 1, Folder III.18 Wayland, Heman Lincoln
Contents Note: Corrects letter of March 3. Conveys message to alumni contributors that Dr. and Mrs. Robinson are pleased by an act which has "largely relieved them of the anxiety about the future which they felt daily pressing more and more heavily upon them."

English.
 1894 March 06