The accession consists of three manuscripts. The first is a 76 page double spaced typescript narrative account of Walter and Judy Munk's month long visit to the Soviet Union from October 8-November 11, 1962. The narrative is written in first person. At the beginning of the typescript, Walter Munk is the narrator, later Judy Munk describes the scene. This typescript describes the Munks' travel in the USSR by Land Rover. They visited Vyborg, Leningrad, Novgorod, Moscow, Vagorsky, Rostove on Don and Odessa. The narrative includes descriptions of the Arctic Institute, Pulkova Observatory, and Arctic and Antarctic Museum of Leningrad, the Institute of Oceanology and Moscow University in Moscow, and the Oceanographic Station in Odessa. The second manuscript is a photocopy of a transcription of a series of letters from Judith Horton Munk to her parents, Winter Davis Horton, and Edith Kendall Horton, written in 1963 when Walter and Judy Munk lived in a palm fale in the village of Vailoa Tai at the southwestern coast of Tutuila in American Samoa. During this period, Walter Munk was manning one of six wave stations monitoring the great southern storm belt. The letters describe both the progress of Walter Munk's work and village life, including ceremonies and dances attended by the Munks, family life, and acquaintances and friends. The third manuscript is a double spaced 86 page typescript narrative by Judith Munk which describes her trip with her husband to the USSR in March 1968. The journey begins in England, and describes lectures and scientific meetings in Keil and Hamburg, Germany. The Munks traveled to Berlin, crossed the border to East Berlin and then flew to Moscow. The narrative describes the Munks' visit to the Oceanographic Institute in Moscow. The Munks then traveled to Yerevan and by air to Armenia, then on to Tbilisi by train. The narrative includes extensive descriptions of the countryside and people, museums, and comments on Armenian and Georgian cultural life and art. The Jewish Quarter in Tbilisi is described. The Munks returned to Moscow by air. This narrative describes the many scientists that Walter and Judy Munk visited, including many scientists they had previously met on the 1962 trip to the USSR. The two manuscripts descriptions of the Munks's visit to the Soviet Union include references to many Russian scientists including Sasha Feldenbaum, V.G. Kort, Andrei Monin, Vladimir Kamentovitch and Divintov Treshmikov.
