Guide to the Benton Sullivan Monroe Papers,
1795-1963

Collection Number: 14-12-1356

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M. Warren
Date completed:
August 1984
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, December 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Benton Sullivan Monroe papers, 1795-1963.
Collection Number:
14-12-1356
Creator:
Benton Sullivan Monroe, 1873-1968.
Quantity:
3.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, reprints, notes, student papers, scrapbooks, accounts, certificates, diplomas, and memorabilia.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Professional papers include correspondence, reprints, notes, student papers, a scrapbook concerning a Cornell Smoking Contest in which Professor Monroe was the winner, and other material related to Cornell University. Personal papers include Monroe family material; correspondence; accounts; material on Ithaca High School, Cornell University, Alpha Zeta, Town & Gown Club, and Rotary Club; certificates and diplomas; Cornell broadsides; political broadsides and memorabilia; scrapbooks; and local history material on Romulus, Varick, and Ithaca, New York.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of English, Cornell University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Professional papers include correspondence, reprints, notes, student papers, a scrapbook concerning a Cornell Smoking Contest in which Professor Monroe was the winner, and other material related to Cornell University. Personal papers include Monroe family material; correspondence; accounts; material on Ithaca High School, Cornell University, Alpha Zeta, Town & Gown Club, and Rotary Club; certificates and diplomas; Cornell broadsides; political broadsides and memorabilia; scrapbooks; and local history material on Romulus, Varick, and Ithaca, New York.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Monroe, Benton Sullivan, 1873-1968.
Monroe family.
Alpha Zeta.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University--Students.
Ithaca High School.
Rotary Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Town & Gown Club.

Subjects:
English language--Study and teaching.
College teachers.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Benton Sullivan Monroe papers, #14-12-1356. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Professional Correspondence
Apr. 29, 1902
Flugel, Ewald
 Box 1 Folder 1
Oct. 26, 1906
Flugel, Ewald
 Box 1 Folder 1
Jan. 22, 1907
Emerson, O.F.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Feb. 26, 1907
McKnight, G.H., Ohio State U. English Dept.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Mar. 3, 1907
Emerson, O.F.
 Box 1 Folder 1
May 30, 1908
Bright, James William
 Box 1 Folder 1
Sept. 26, 1909
Child, Clarence G.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 13, 1909
Tatlock, John S.P.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Sept. 18, 1910
Emerson, O.F.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Sept. 19, 1910
Wells, John Edwin
 Box 1 Folder 1
Sept. 19, 1910
Spingarn, J.E.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Oct. 11, 1910
Edlund, R.C.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 5, 1910
Emerson, O.F. (sig. cut out)
 Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 20, 1910
Flugel, Ewald
 Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 29, 1910
Steeves, H.R.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Feb. 20, 1919
Andrews, Eugene P. re: his approaching marriage
 Box 1 Folder 1
July 8, 1919
Kennedy, Charles William
 Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 29, 1920
Gutstadt, M.M., manager, Lyceum Theatre, Ithaca
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 29, 1920
Gutstadt, M.M.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Oct. 2, 1921
Montgomery, Lois E., Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 18, 1921
Montgomery, Lois E.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Mar. 3, 1925
Smith, Lou; Ruthschild, Jacob; and Hickey, Joseph F.- joint invitation
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 2, 1930
Farrand, Livingston
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 5, 1930
Ogden, Robert M.
 Box 1 Folder 1
May 4, 1931
Hull, Charles H.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Feb. 26, 1932
Dondare (?), Dorothy
 Box 1 Folder 1
May 25, 1940
Coon, Arthur M.
 Box 1 Folder 2
June 19, 1940
Bald, R.C.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Oct. 4, 1940
Monroe, B.S.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Sept. 2, 1940
Burnham, Josephine M.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Sept. 11, 1940
Brooks, Ruth Ann Louise
 Box 1 Folder 2
Nov. 17, 1940
McGuire, Ritchie
 Box 1 Folder 2
Oct. 5, 1940
Monroe
 Box 1 Folder 2
Oct. 5, 1940
Monroe
 Box 1 Folder 2
Nov. 26, 1940
Betten, Cornelius
 Box 1 Folder 2
Dec. 3, 1940
Monroe
 Box 1 Folder 2
May 1, 1941
Eaton, Horace A.
 Box 1 Folder 2
May 3, 1941
Monroe
 Box 1 Folder 2
Sept. 27, 1949
Lyon, George W.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Nov. 4, 1953
Malott, Deane W.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Oct. 2, 1953
Willcox, Walter F.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Sept. 25, 1955
Willcox, Walter F.
 Box 1 Folder 2
Apr. 23, ?
Timmerman, Lynn D.
 Box 1 Folder 3
1931, 1954
Willcox, Walter, reprints
 Box 1 Folder 3
ca. 1934
Edith Harrison, poetry
 Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
Walter French, draft
 Box 1 Folder 3
n.d.
Robert C. Fenner, talk
 Box 1 Folder 3
Monroe - Reprints
 Box 1 Folder 4
Alumni News Faculty Committee
 Box 1 Folder 5
Hart on Phonology
 Box 1 Folder 6
Gothic and Old English Philology
 Box 1 Folder 7
Old English - Notes
 Box 1 Folder 8
Old English Exams, 1905-1923
Box 1 Folder 9
Students' Essays
 Box 1 Folder 10
Student Notebook - Old English
 Box 1 Folder 11
American Dialect Society
 Box 1 Folder 12
College Entrance Examination Board - Meeting
 Box 1 Folder 13
Gould Colman - Oral History
 Box 1 Folder 14
Miscellaneous
 Box 1 Folder 15
Cornell - Art
 Box 1 Folder 16
Award
 Box 1 Folder 17
Cornell - Buildings
 Box 1 Folder 18
Cornell - Class Activities
 Box 1 Folder 19
Cornell - Class of 1896
 Box 1 Folder 20
Cornell - Class of 1896 - Reunions
 Box 1 Folder 21
Cornell - Class Day
 Box 1 Folder 22
Cornell - Ezra Cornell
 Box 1 Folder 23
Cornell Drama Clubs - programs
 Box 1 Folder 24
Delicate Brown
 Box 1 Folder 25
Cornell - History
 Box 1 Folder 26-27
Cornell - Inauguration, 1921
Box 1 Folder 28
Cornell - Invitations, programs
 Box 1 Folder 29
Cornell - Lectures and forms
 Box 1 Folder 30
Cornell - Library
 Box 1 Folder 31
Cornell - Menu
 Box 1 Folder 32
Cornell - Miscellaneous
 Box 1 Folder 33-34
Cornell - Miscellaneous correspondence, incl. letter from John Henry Comstock to Wm. E. Sullivan, Sept. 13, 1875
Box 1 Folder 35
Cornell - Music clubs - programs
 Box 1 Folder 36
Cornell - People
 Box 1 Folder 37
Cornell Phi Beta Kappa
 Box 1 Folder 38
Cornell Phi Beta Kappa - Reunions
 Box 1 Folder 39
Cornell - Presidents
 Box 1 Folder 40
Cornell - Sage College
 Box 1 Folder 41
Cornell Statistics, 1873, 1880
Box 1 Folder 42
Cornell Scrapbook, 1910-1911
Box 1 Folder 43
Monroe Family - Family Papers
 Box 2 Folder 1
Monroe Family - Romulus Post Office Record
 Box 2 Folder 2
Certificates - Monroe Family, 1887-1894
Box 2 Folder 3
May Lawrence - School Papers, 1887-1894
Box 2 Folder 4
Addie Snyder - School Papers, 1867-1877
Box 2 Folder 5
Sophronia Sullivan - School Papers, 1866-1868
Box 2 Folder 6
Ithaca High School Class of 1890 - correspondence and miscellaneous
 Box 2 Folder 7
High School Papers, 1890-1892
Box 2 Folder 8
Student Essays, 1891-1894
Box 2 Folder 9
Latin 7 Notebook, 1894
Box 2 Folder 10
"Sicyon" Archeology Notebook, 1895
Box 2 Folder 11
Student Notebook, 1897-1898
Box 2 Folder 12
Exams
 Box 2 Folder 13-14
Alpha Eta Pi Scrapbook
 Box 2 Folder 15
Alpha Zeta - Mss.
 Box 2 Folder 16
Alpha Zeta
 Box 2 Folder 17-18
Town & Gown Club - Organization
 Box 2 Folder 19
Town & Gown Club - Events
 Box 2 Folder 20
Ithaca Rotary Club - Notes
 Box 2 Folder 21
Ithaca Rotary Club
 Box 2 Folder 22-23
Ithaca Rotary Club - "Ted" Monroe Day, 1963
Box 2 Folder 24
Tape Recording
 Box 2 Folder 25
Personal Correspondence
 Box 2 Folder 26-27
Personal Correspondence - Parmelee Family
 Box 2 Folder 28
Accounts, 1925
Box 2 Folder 29
Accounts, 1926
Box 2 Folder 30
Accounts, 1927
Box 2 Folder 31
Accounts, 1928
Box 2 Folder 32
Accounts, 1929
Box 2 Folder 33
Accounts, 1930
Box 2 Folder 34
Accounts, 1931-1933
Box 2 Folder 35
Personal - Miscellaneous
 Box 2 Folder 36-37
World War II Ration Book
 Box 2 Folder 38
Ithaca - Business
 Box 2 Folder 39
Ithaca - City Government
 Box 2 Folder 40
Ithaca High School
 Box 2 Folder 41-42
Drawings - Dwight R. Collin - Ithaca High School, 1890
Box 2 Folder 43
Ithaca - Maps
 Box 2 Folder 44
Ithaca - Manuscripts
 Box 2 Folder 45
Ithaca - Organizations
 Box 2 Folder 46-47
Lecture Notes
 Box 3 Folder 1
Children's Books
 Box 3 Folder 2-3
Regents' Pass Cards - Benton S. Monroe
 Box 3 Folder 4
Award Cards - Nina Elson
 Box 3 Folder 5
Ithaca High School - Photographs
 Box 3 Folder 6
Town & Gown Club - Postcards
 Box 3 Folder 7-9
Rotary Club Clippings
 Box 3 Folder 10
Roterary Club Notes
 Box 3 Folder 11
Membership Cards
 Box 3 Folder 12
Miscellaneous invitations and calling cards
 Box 4 Folder 1
School Awards (blank)
 Box 4 Folder 2
Seneca County checks
 Box 4 Folder 3
Monroe Family - Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre Railroad tickets
 Box 4 Folder 4
Postcards
 Box 4 Folder 5-6
Card Game Scorebooks
 Box 4 Folder 7
Autograph Book - Mrs. David Monroe, 1876-1884
Box 4 Folder 8
Autograph Book - May Lawrence, 1868-1869
Box 4 Folder 9
Photographs
 Box 4 Folder 10-11
Local History - Miscellaneous
 Box 4 Folder 12
Lincoln Assassination - clipping
 Box 4 Folder 13
Photographs - Ithaca scenes - people
 Box 4 Folder 14
Photographs - Cornell
 Box 4 Folder 15
Photographs - Ithaca organizations and people
 Box 4 Folder 16
Ithaca High School diploma - Nina Lulu Elston, 1893
Box 4
NYU Academic diploma
 Box 4
Ithaca - organizations
 Box 5 Folder 1
Ithaca - police department
 Box 5 Folder 2
Clippings - Cornell and Ithaca history
 Box 5 Folder 3-4
Clippings - local history
 Box 5 Folder 5
Dryden School District 20
 Box 5 Folder 6
Mss. - Promissory notes and letter, 1795-1796
Box 5 Folder 7
Romulus - Varick - Local history - Mss.
 Box 5 Folder 8
Romulus and Varick - local history - printed items
 Box 5 Folder 9
Romulus and Seneca County - printed items
 Box 5 Folder 10
Romulus and Varick - local history - Hunt Farm
 Box 5 Folder 11
Diedrich Willers - documents
 Box 5 Folder 12
Isaac Smith and contemporaries - Ms. documents
 Box 5 Folder 13
Dudgeon - receipts, 1869-1870
Box 5 Folder 14
Ovid miscellany
 Box 5 Folder 15
Political memorabilia
 Box 5 Folder 16
World War I and II - Posters
 Box 5 Folder 17
Currency
 Box 5 Folder 18
Commercial Portraits
 Box 5 Folder 19
First Baptist Church of Romulus
 Box 6 Folder 1
Romulus (?) Notebooks
 Box 6 Folder 2
Scrapbook - Poe
 Box 6 Folder 3
Scrapbook - personal
 Box 6 Folder 4
Romulus Scrapbook
 Box 7 Folder 1
Romulus 2 Scrapbook
 Box 7 Folder 2
Romulus 3 Scrapbook
 Box 7 Folder 3
Romulus Anecdotes Scrapbook
 Box 7 Folder 4
Certificates and Diplomas
 Mapcase
Cornell Broadsides, Photograph (unidentified), Political Broadsides
 Mapcase
Romulus Broadsides
 Mapcase