This series is organized into three subseries: GENERAL, FAMILY, and DIARIES AND CALENDARS. There is a small amount of personal material in this series including clippings from the Smith Alumnae Quarterly on Marsh, a booklet on Marsh family history, and information on a cottage that Marsh and her husband owned in Wellfleet, MA. The diaries are related to her research travel and the calendars to her profession life at Smith.

This series is organized into three subseries: GENERAL, FAMILY, and SMITH COLLEGE. The SMITH COLLEGE subseries is divided by Faculty and Staff and Students. The correspondence from students is organized into several categories in the following order: General, Class of 1952, Class of 1957, and Junior Year Abroad in Geneva. The correspondence from students in the JYA Geneva program is organized into three sections; General, Class of 1960 and non-Smith Students. The bulk of the correspondence covers 1940-1961 and is from students who Marsh worked with as a Class Dean or as the Resident Advisor for JYA Geneva . A small amount of student correspondence is restricted. The bulk of the restricted correspondence is from Ellen Hauser, Class of 1960, and will be closed until 2022. It cover 1960-1983 and is 2 linear inches. The subseries FAMILY contains correspondence to her husband and daughter from her research trips to Patzcuaro, Mexico and Venezuela. There is also correspondence in SERIES VII. SUBJECT FILES.

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This series contains notes that Marsh took in her undergraduate and graduate courses at Smith College 1914-1916. The exception is one folder on an Education Course that she took at the Harvard Summer School in 1955.

All of the course material in this series is from courses taught at Smith College except for one folder on a course at Amherst College. The bulk of the material is lecture notes and syllabi.

This series contains card files of research notes organized by subject and unidentified research notes. In addition, there is one card file that lists the contacts Marsh used for her research on the petroleum industry in Central and South America for her article, "Monoculture and the Level of Living: An Hypothesis."

This series is organized into three subseries: GENERAL, CLASS DEAN, and RESIDENT DIRECTOR, JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD, GENEVA. This series consists of general material related to Marsh's work at Smith College including meetings and speeches in her role as the Class Dean of the Classes of 1952 and 1957, a list of JYA Geneva students during the 1958-1959 academic year, and information on the Seven College Conference in 1955 and 1956.

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Most of the subject files are on countries. In addition there are subject files on topics such as population and individuals. They contain newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles, advertisements, correspondence, syllabi, lecture notes and research notes. Most reprints of articles from journals were removed from the collection. A photocopy of the front cover with biographical information was left in place of each one. See also subject card files in SERIES V. RESEARCH NOTES AND CARD FILES.

This series contains published and unpublished writing and speeches. Speeches, writing, and correspondence related to her writing may also be found in SERIES VII. SUBJECT FILES filed by subject.

The bulk of the photographs are of unidentified classmates from Marsh's years as a student at Smith and photographs of her students and their families. In addition, there are photographs from her research trips.