Papers, 1906-1972
MC 177
1 box (.33 cu.ft.)
About Robert Wear
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 Collection
The collection contains manuscript material for Wear’s autobiography Barbed Wire Recollections and drafts of accounts of his time as a member of the CIA.
Folder Listing
I. Manuscripts
| f.1 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 1: An Introduction to Images and Memoirs. |
| f.2 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 2: My Immediate Ancestry. |
| f.3 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 3: My Childhood in China. |
| f.4 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 4: Boyhood Days in America. |
| f.5 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 5: Growing Up in Aberdeen, South Dakota. |
| f.6 | Barbed Wire Recollections: Part 6: Undergraduate Years at Oberlin College. |
| f.7 | Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan (draft 1). |
| f.8 | Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan (draft 2). |
| f.9 | Snooping and Scooping with the C.I.A. (draft 1). |
| f.10 | An Amazing Two Years with the C.I.A. (draft 2). |
II. Miscellaneous
| f.11 | G.I. View of Natives in North Africa. |
| f.12 | Orlando E. Merrill, Perilous Interlude, pp. 1-10. |
| f.13 | Orlando E. Merrill, Perilous Interlude, pp. 12-50. |
| f.14 | “Combat Missions 1944.” |
| f.15 | 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.” |
| f.16 | 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. |