Series IV. Writings

The collection consists of 71 boxes of personal papers tjat span the admiral's naval career and retirement activities. The collection contains biographical infonnation, his correspondence, correspondence of others, his speeches and writings, speeches and writings of others, subject files, naval papers, miscellany and photographs. The admiral's aviation logs are not part of this collection and are located at the Pensacola Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida. Other than that one gap, the collection is a comprehensive collection of material documenting a naval career of over forty years and a career in the civilian defense industry that spanned two and a half decades.

Series One, Biographical information, contains his official naval biography, a biographical statement for General Dynamics, Who's Who in America and The Blue Book 1970 Questionnaire, a passport application, a membership application for the Greenwich (CT.) Country Club, authentication of his birth date, personal information from the Class of 1930 Alunmi News colunm in Shipmate and a vita.

Correspondence, Series II, consists of official and personal letters sent and received, although the latter are the larger segment. Most of the letters sent are carbon copies and date from the 1950s through the early 1990s; they focus on naval matters and Hayward's corporate connections. Correspondents include political leaders, academicians, business associates, family members and flag rank officers of the U.S. Navy. Letters received, the larger segment, date from 1931 to 1994. Significant correspondents are: Admirals Jeremy Boorda, Thomas Hayward, J. L. Holloway, Ricliard G. Colbert, Stansfield Turner, Arleigh Burke, George Anderson and Hyman Rickover, Governor John Connally, Senator John Chafee, Senator Stuart Symington, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Senator Claiborne Pell, Senator Henry Jackson, Hanson Baldwin, Dr. David Rosenberg and Sister Lucille McKillop. Included in this series are Hayward's letters to the editors of the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, The Providence Journal, The New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report for the years 1971-1997, and letters of others not addressed to Hayward, 1943-1993, that treat with naval issues.

Speeches, notes for speeches and speeches of others comprise Series III. Admiral Hayward gave innumerable speeches on a wide variety of topics during his naval career to civic groups, clubs, associations, preparatory schools, college, universities, and military and naval organizations. Some of the topics that he addressed include the Navy and national defense, international law, atomic energy, Navy research and development, Navy weapons systems, missile warfare, leadership, science and space technology and sea power. There are speeches on educational and patriotic themes as well. This series contains his testimony before the U.S. Senate on the satellite program, several transcripts of TV programs on which he appeared, and interviews regarding his position as Executive Officer, Naval Ordnance Test Station, 1944-1947, and as a member of the Air Intelligence Group, Naval Intelligence, Chief of Naval Operations Office in 1944. The last segment of this series contains speeches by others including Admiral W. S. Parsons, 1946-1948, naval officers, academics, political leaders and corporate executives on military, naval and scientific topics. These date from 1950 to 1993.

The fourth series contains the admiral's writings and includes the writings of others that he collected. One of the major components of the series is an unpublished manuscript entitled Cry the Rebel authored by Hayward. It is an account of the heroes and innovators of the U.S. Navy. Another major segment of the series is Hayward's autobiography and the diary that he kept from 1942 to 1962. There are numerous published articles dating from the 1930s to 1990 that appeared in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Government Executive, Navv, The Hook, Ordnance, Signal,The Government Executive, and the GE Ouarterlv. Most of these were written on topics pertaining to the Navy, air power and instrumentation in the Service, weapons, military problems, nuclear warfare and international relations. The series contains some unpublished articles and drafts and several poems with themes relating to World War II. The remainder of the series contains articles written by historians, academicians, scientists, government officials and newspaper reporters on scientific topics, naval warfare, technology, the Fleet, democracy, strategy, tactics,National Security, air power, sea power, and the Soviet Union. These date from 1944 to 1992.

Naval papers comprise Series V and include the admiral's orders,change of duty and temporary duty assignments, travel vouchers, reimbursement papers, physical examination reports and medals and awards from 1926 through 1973.

Series VI, Subject Files, is one of the largest in the collection and contains information on a wide array of navy and defense related topics, as well as meetings, conferences, associations, corporate and academic boards on which the admiral served, General Dynamics where he was employed, people and ships, Annual Reports, corporate and technical reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, memoranda, information manuals, articles, expense account data, budgets, invoices, lists, programs, proposals, brochures, phone directories, policy statements, notes, notices and miscellaneous material make up the bulk of the material in this series that encompasses the years 1939 to 1994.

There is an extensive collection of career related and personal photographs that date from the 1920s to 1991 in Series VII. They include photographs spanning Hayward's entire naval career and include pictures of military leaders, royalty, including Princess Grace of Monaco and King Constantine and Queen Anne Marie of Greece, ships, World War II in the Pacific, radiation victims at Nagasaki, and family photos.

The last series in the collection is entitled Miscellany and contains passports, visas, certificates, rosters and membership lists, maps, pamphlets and newspaper clippings that document Hayward's naval and retirement career.