Content Description From the Collection:

Correspondence and subject files pertaining to administration, organization, mission, functions and buildings of the Naval Training Station and Naval Station, 1885–1974; Historical subject files of Coasters Harbor Island, Fort Adams, USS Constitution, USS Constellation, visits of Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon, 150th Anniversary of landing of General Rochambeau, 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Rhode Island, hurricanes, fires, Public Works Department, Tercentenary of city of Newport, Naval Air Station, Naval Torpedo Station, Naval Operating Base, and Goat Island, 1885–1974; Command Histories, 1958–1974; War Diaries, 1941–1943; Publications including Our Naval Apprentice, Newport Recruit and Newport Navalog; Photographs and photograph albums of the Naval Base, Naval Station, recruit training and special events, 1890–1963; Picture book, log book, leave books, and organization and regulation books, 1885–1974.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of twenty-seven boxes of official and personal papers that are divided into eight series that document the admiral's military career and retirement employment. The collection is unrestricted and open to researchers.Series One, Correspondence, contains the admiral's personal letters received, 1935-1988, and professional correspondence, 1955-1957. Correspondents include his brother Charles, family members and friends who wrote to him while he was at the U.S. Naval Academy, 1935-1939, and later assignments. Professional correspondence covers the years 1953-1957 and includes letters sent and received from naval personnel.Series Two, Writings, has the admiral's published and unpublished writings, dating from 1950 to 1985. Published writings appeared in The Navy Magazine and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.Series Three houses speeches given during the years 1962 to 1985. Topics vary and include convocation addresses, the Soviet Navy, logistics, and SEATO.Series Four contains published writings by prominent political figures and naval officers, including CDR Thomas Buell, Edward L. Katzenbach, Senator Robert Taft, and ADM Arleigh Burke, 1965-1988. Speeches by naval officers and political figures, 1953-1987, are in Series Five. They include President Richard M. Nixon, Senators Sam Nunn and J.W. Fulbright, and the Secretary of the Navy James H. Webb.Series Six, Subject Files,...

Content Description From the Collection:

Diary aboard USS Osmond Ingram (APD 35), January 1, 1945- November 25, 1945; Booklets, 1944; Souvenir postcards and postcards of Navy Ships, Prayer book and New Testament; Medical Guide for seamen and USNTS, Great Lakes (IL) matchbook cover; Three naval uniforms, enlisted rate.

Content Description From the Collection:

Correspondence and subject files pertaining to administration, organization, mission, functions and buildings of the Naval Training Station and Naval Station, 1885–1974; Historical subject files of Coasters Harbor Island, Fort Adams, USS Constitution, USS Constellation, visits of Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon, 150th Anniversary of landing of General Rochambeau, 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Rhode Island, hurricanes, fires, Public Works Department, Tercentenary of city of Newport, Naval Air Station, Naval Torpedo Station, Naval Operating Base, and Goat Island, 1885–1974; Command Histories, 1958–1974; War Diaries, 1941–1943; Publications including Our Naval Apprentice, Newport Recruit and Newport Navalog; Photographs and photograph albums of the Naval Base, Naval Station, recruit training and special events, 1890–1963; Picture book, log book, leave books, and organization and regulation books, 1885–1974.

Content Description From the Collection:

Correspondence and subject files pertaining to administration, organization, mission, functions and buildings of the Naval Training Station and Naval Station, 1885–1974; Historical subject files of Coasters Harbor Island, Fort Adams, USS Constitution, USS Constellation, visits of Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon, 150th Anniversary of landing of General Rochambeau, 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Rhode Island, hurricanes, fires, Public Works Department, Tercentenary of city of Newport, Naval Air Station, Naval Torpedo Station, Naval Operating Base, and Goat Island, 1885–1974; Command Histories, 1958–1974; War Diaries, 1941–1943; Publications including Our Naval Apprentice, Newport Recruit and Newport Navalog; Photographs and photograph albums of the Naval Base, Naval Station, recruit training and special events, 1890–1963; Picture book, log book, leave books, and organization and regulation books, 1885–1974.

Content Description From the Collection:

Letters sent from Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S. Ambassador to the Imperial Russian Court in St. Petersburg to his brother Henry Hitchcock, July 11, 1897–January 30, 1899; Letters sent from Margaret and Anne Hitchcock to Sarah Hitchcock Shepley, Isabel and an uncle, from St. Petersburg, July 27, 1897–October 2, 1898, describing their daily life and social activities.

Content Description From the Collection:

Papers: Guides to NHC Collections and Manuscript Registers, 1974-2013; Correspondence, Letter sent and received, 1979-2011; Published writings, 1986-2012; Book Reviews, 1970s-2006 unpublished writings, 1980-1990; Research Source material for books and articles, 1974-2012, Prospectus for three books; Drafts of books, NEA Reports, conferences, and association business; Professional conferences, 1988-2011.

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This series contains a Maritime Conference Program, a cartoon, a 1970 announcment, and a flyer for the Abandoned Ocean that is dated 2000.

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Journal kept during the Philippine Insurrection, 1898; Annual Report of the Governor of Guam 1936; Photographs of ADM McNamee and other flag rank officers, Dorothy Swinburne McNamee, USS Bell, USS Nevada, USS Sacramento, USS Maryland, and of the Middle East and Far East; Scrapbooks of Christmas Cards, 1920, 1932, 1944 and of news clippings and photographs, 1936-1939; Newspaper pages, 1898 and 1939; Books, including Book ofthe Naval Cadets of the Class of 1892 by A.T. Mahan, Heroes of the Navy in America, Unofficial Navy Code ,and Annapolis Alphabet by William Stevens.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Business files, including correspondence and memoranda with prospective authors, reviewers, publishers, subscribers and President, NWC, as well as memoranda regarding the budget, publication of the Review, Naval War College Historical Monograph Series and other books.