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File contains 44 magazine covers (including duplicates), chiefly signed with his monogram, by George Wolfe Plank (1883-1965) that include 34 covers not mounted in mats from Collier's, Apr. 29 1911, Dress and Vanity fair, Oct. 1913, Vanity fair, 1914-1918 (4 covers) and Vogue, 1911-1925 (27 covers), sorted chronologically; arrangement, by box-folder: 7-8) 1911-1914; 7-9) 1915-1925.

9 letters to Oxford from Toronto;1 postcard; 1 photograph of a man and woman

Notebook is bound in worn limp red leather and contains lined pages. Many of the entries are dated. Contains summaries of books on aesthetics, with occasional quick pencil sketches. Books read include Burnett on painting; Design, the making of patterns; Paul Cezanne his life and art by Vollard; The painter’s palette by Denman Ross; Clive Bell’s Art; Sir Joshua Reynold’s Discourses with Roger Fry’s introduction, and entries on ‘negro art’, theosophy and a number of artists including Brancusi, Seurat and others. Two leaves have been fully removed and one sheet has been partially removed.

9 letters; 1 postcard to Paris, London from Oxford, London

9 letters to Paris from Oxford and London. 1 letter includes a pencil drawing

Notebooks document Munn’s student life in New York City and at the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock. She recorded her lecture notes, essays containing reviews and summaries of books read, notations regarding books of interest, sketches, anatomical drawings, copies of historical works of art, poems, and occasionally ephemera. Under the tutelage of her teachers at the Art Students League – Andrew Dasburg, Max Weber, A.S. Baylinson, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Henry L. McFee, she embraced modernism and gained exposure to literary, artistic and musical influences of her day. The notebooks show her to be an avid reader with a keen interest in the intellectual life of her time and in the artistic expression of other cultures and epochs. There is a particular delight in pattern and an underlying search for explanation and order. On the front pastedown of Notebook No. 8 she wrote, “Perfect beauty is the expression of perfect order, balance, harmony, rhythm. Beauty is a supreme instance of order intuitively felt, instinctively appreciated”. The notebooks are undated, with the exception of No. 5.

1 letter from Paris

2 letters to Tours and Paris from New York

6 letters to Toronto (?) from Paris

File contains correspondence to and from Varley and J.E.H. MacDonald