4079140Henry Smith Munroe letters4079140Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-07-10 21:27:40 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard2020-06-12EAD document created by CCR. Rare Book and Manuscript Library Henry Smith Munroe letters Munroe, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1850-1933 4079140 MS#0910 English . /repositories/2/resources/2911 1 box 1 box 1855-1899 Arrangement

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Incoming correspondence of Henry Smith Munroe (born Henry Munroe Smith) composed of personal letters from various family members, chief correspondents being his father, Horatio Southgate Smith, his mother, Susan Dwight (Munroe) Smith, his brother "Ned", apparently Columbia professor of international law (Edmund) Munroe Smith, and William Allen Smith. These letters date from 1855 through 1875, covering his childhood, school days, and first positions as an assistant chemist in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1870-1872, and as a member of the geological survey in Yesso, Japan, 1872-1875. After a lapse of fifteen years, correspondence resumes for the period 1890-1896. Other correspondence includes letters from friends, 1865-1875; letters of a business and professional nature, 1870-1875; 1890-1899; and letters relating to a School of Mines alumni project, the Trowbridge Memorial Fund, 1894-1898. Also, incoming letters from Munroe's paternal grandparents to his father while he attended Dartmouth College and Bowdoin Medical School from 1837 to 1844.

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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Henry Smith Munroe letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Accession number--M-59.

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Professor of mining at Columbia University, 1877-1915. Henry Smith Munroe was born Henry Munroe Smith.

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Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.

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 International law Geological surveys -- Japan -- Hokkaido College teachers Chemists Smith, Horatio Southgate Smith, Susan Dwight Munroe Smith, Monroe, 1854-1926 Smith, William Allan Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). School of Mines Dartmouth College -- : Students Bowdoin College. Medical School United States. Department of Agriculture Series I: Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131721837-1899Business and Professional Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131731870-18751Business and Professional Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131741890-18991Columbia Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131751894-18981Scope and Contents

With School of Mines alumni

Family Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131761855-18591Family Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131771860-18691Family Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131782 folders1870-18751Family Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131791890-18961Personal Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131801865-18751Smith, Horatio Southgate--Incoming correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131814 folders1837-18441Scope and Contents

With summary of contents, 1837-1839.

Miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/12131821