Typed carbon copy letter, signed. Mary Cooke Branch Munford to Dean of the College James M. Page. 1913 April 25.

For decades Mrs. Mary Cooke Branch Munford labored tirelessly for either equal admission of women to the University or the establishment of a coordinate college near the University. In 1913 she wrote to Dean of the College James M. Page arguing that "it might be a good thing to push the campaign for the Woman's College, and have a bill prepared committing the State to the founding of this College," adding, "I feel certain that if the way can be prepared by you, with such cooperation as we women and those already interested can give you, we shall have a very good chance of having this College founded by the next Legislature."

Photograph of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, including Mary Cooke Branch Munford, taken at the appointment of John Lloyd Newcomb as second president of the University of Virginia. 1933.

The bill did not pass but Munford and other advocates of equal education for women did not give up. In 1944 Mary Washington became the coordinate college of the University of Virginia. Mrs. Munford herself became the third woman to serve on the Board of Visitors, holding that post from 1926 until her death in 1938.