Collection number: MC 177
Size: 1 box
(0.33 cu.ft.)
About Robert Wear (1916-2015)
Robert Wear was born in Yunnan-fu, China on September 6, 1916, the son of missionaries who met while in China. His mother, Alice, née von Niederhauser, worked for the German Evangelical Church while his father, Robert Benjamin, worked for the YMCA.
About the Robert Wear Papers
The collection contains manuscript material for Wear’s autobiography Barbed Wire Recollections, an essay about his father, Dad Was A Dandy Dude, and drafts of accounts of his time as a member of the CIA.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open
Copyright Notice
Contents of this collection are governed by U.S. copyright law. For questions about publication or reproduction rights, contact Special Collections staff
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Robert Wear Papers, 1906-2000, MC 177, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA
Acquisitions Information
Donated: Douglas Wheeler, April 2001 (Accession number: 2001.13)
Collection Contents
Series 1: Manuscripts
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 1: An Introduction to Images and Memoirs | |
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 2: My Immediate Ancestry. Memoirs | |
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 3: My Childhood in China | |
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 4: Boyhood Days in America | |
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 5: Growing Up in Aberdeen, South Dakota | |
| Box 1, Folder 6 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 6: Undergraduate Years at Oberlin College | |
| Box 1, Folder 7 | Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan (draft 1) | |
| Box 1, Folder 8 | Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan (draft 2) | |
| Box 1, Folder 9 | Snooping and Scooping with the C.I.A (draft 1) | |
| Box 1, Folder 10 | An Amazing Two Years with the C.I.A. (draft 2) | |
| Box 1, Folder 11 | Dad Was A Dandy Dude: Recollections of WW#2 Stateside Experiences | |
Series 2: Miscellaneous
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 12 | G.I. View of Natives in North Africa | |
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Orlando E. Merrill, Perilous Interlude, pp. 1-10 | |
| Box 1, Folder 14 | Orlando E. Merrill, Perilous Interlude, pp. 12-50 | |
| Box 1, Folder 15 | "Combat Missions 1944" | |
| Box 1, Folder 16 | Correspondence: Wear to Douglas Wheeler, January 9, 2000; Wear to Orlando E. Merrill, July 1, 2000; Orlando E. Merrill to Robert Wear, August 21, 2000, includes “A Brief Sketch of Orlando’s Boyhood Years” | |
| Box 1, Folder 17 | Facsimile copy of dissertation from microfilm: Physical Fitness and Performance of a Medically Healthy Group of Adult Males of Mongoloid and Melanesian Racial Ancestry by Robert Edward Wear. UMI Dissertation Services, 1955 | |
