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Introduction
This material, while sharing the provenance of and thus complementing the main Munch/Tristan
Collection, arrived in the Archives in 1994 as part of the personal papers of Professor of
Sociology Charles E. Marske, Munch's former student and the man largely responsible for Saint
Louis University's being chosen by Helene Munch as the repository of her late husband's
accumulation of Tristania. At that time Marske was working on the arrangement, preservation,
and development of the main Munch/Tristan Collection, which had reached the Archives in 1986.
It was decided to separate from the Marske papers those items that were properly part of the
Munch material and to process them as an addendum to the Munch/Tristan Collection.
For an explanation of the characteristics and significance of the Munch/Tristan Collection,
as well as a biography of Peter Munch, see the finding aid for the main part of the Peter A.
Munch/Tristan da Cunha Collection, DOC MSS 002.
| Linear feet of space: .8 |
| Total number of items: 163 |
| Access restrictions: No restrictions |
Arrangement: Series are divided alphabetically into subseries
and chronologically
within subseries. |
| Related collections: DOC MSS 002; DOC MSS 025; DOC MSS 026 |
Suggested citation for this collection: Saint Louis University Archives.
Peter A. Munch/Tristan da Cunha Collection II (DOC MSS 024). |
Series
The collection is divided into the following twelve series:
| SERIES 1A: |
Charts and Lists |
| DATES: |
C.1971 |
| SIZE: |
71 items |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series contains charts of Tristan genealogy and longboat crews as
well as various lists and notes pertaining to Tristan social sets and kinship.
Munch seems to have been engaged on a project revolving around these topics along with
Roland Hawkes, whose thoughts on "the kinship-interaction problem" also appear
here. |
| SERIES 1: |
Correspondence |
| DATES: |
1964-1977 |
| SIZE: |
45 items |
| CONTENT: |
3 folders |
| DESCRIPTION: |
The correspondence between Munch and Leslie Dopkeen (later Rosenblum), his
former student at Syracuse University, chronicles their deep friendship, Dopkeen's
Vietnam-era experiences as student and teacher, and Munch's interest in a position in
Albany, New York. Munch's exchange with Professor O. Wagner of South Africa involves
a possible visit to discuss Munch's research upon his return to Tristan in 1964-1965.
Arrangement is alphabetical by correspondent and chronological thereunder. |
| SERIES 2: |
Diaries |
| DATES: |
1937-1938 |
| SIZE: |
2 items |
| CONTENT: |
2 folders |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This English translation by Helene Munch of her husband Peter's original
Norwegian-language diary from the Norwegian Expedition to Tristan in 1937-1938 incorporates
similar dated entries from a separate notebook of the same period. Particularly
interesting are details of the daily life of the islanders, the picture of their gradual
warming to their visitors, and both their and their guests' views of Tristan missionary
Harold Wilde. |
| SERIES 3: |
Ephemera |
| DATES: |
C.1937-1965 |
| SIZE: |
4 items |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Most interesting are a boarding pass for S.S. Solglimt that carried
the Norwegian Expedition to Cape Town en route to Tristan and the business card of J.
Nicholas Elam, Third Secretary of the British Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, whom
Munch was to meet sometime during his return to Tristan in 1964-1965. |
| SERIES 4: |
Manuscripts |
| DATES: |
1963-C.1969 |
| SIZE: |
3 items |
| CONTENT: |
2 folders |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Included is a typescript of a press release detailing Munch's presentation
at the 1963 American Anthropological Association of a paper on the displaced community of
Tristan. Also here is a typescript of Munch's "Anarchy and Anomie in an Atomistic
Community," a revised version of the earlier "Anomie and Adaptation in a Displaced
Community: Tristan da Cunha," with annotations by Munch and highlighting apparently by
Charles E. Marske. Arrangement is alphabetical by title. |
| SERIES 5: |
Maps |
| DATES: |
1960-1968 |
| SIZE: |
3 items |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series contains various maps of Great Britain and Tristan, including
one of the Solent in Britain covering the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton. |
| SERIES 6: |
Notes |
| DATES: |
1962-1979 |
| SIZE: |
20 items |
| CONTENT: |
2 folders |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series consists of Munch's notes on Tristan cattle ownership, spinning,
visiting patterns, etc., as well as his copies of Charles E. Marske's notes on kinship,
social sets, and interaction. |
| SERIES 7: |
Papers |
| DATES: |
1956-1979 |
| SIZE: |
4 items |
| CONTENT: |
4 folders |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series contains finished scholarly papers by Munch, many of them
apparently used by Charles E. Marske in his research and bearing Marske's highlighting.
Arrangement is alphabetical by title of paper. For more Munch papers see Series 8,
Publications, and Series 11, Projected Papers. |
| SERIES 8: |
Publications |
| DATES: |
1954 |
| SIZE: |
1 item |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series contains a copy of Midwest Sociologist, Volume 16,
Number 1, Winter 1954 that includes Munch's paper "Group Identification and
Socio-cultural Symbolism." |
| SERIES 9: |
Speeches |
| DATES: |
1951 |
| SIZE: |
2 items |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series consists of typescripts of Munch's talk on Tristan delivered
to Alpha Pi Zeta on December 18, 1951. |
| SERIES 10: |
Transcripts |
| DATES: |
C.1937-1994 |
| SIZE: |
2 items |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series contains a typed transcript of the contents of a tape probably
made by Helene Munch using her husband Peter's notebooks from his first Tristan visit with
the Norwegian Expedition in 1937-1938. This material appears to supplement the diary
but does not seem to have been incorporated into the translation of the latter. |
| SERIES 11: |
Projected Papers |
| DATES: |
1960-1972 |
| SIZE: |
6 items |
| CONTENT: |
1 folder |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This series contains a list of possible paper topics compiled by Munch in 1972 along with copies of both his own and others' finished papers. |
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