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Thank you letter to Naval War College Librarian Edwin Wiley from RADM Niblack aboard USS ALABAMA. Niblack mentions his command of 8 battleships and receipt of Wiley's recent letter.

Lecture on explosives including such topics as gunpowder, gun cotton, nitro-glycerin, given by Hill at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI.

U.S. Naval Commission to Acting Midshipman signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Welsh.

Letter from Commodore George Smith Blake, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, May 12, 1863, ordering Mahan to duty in USS Macedonian. He was to report to Comm. J.P. Montgomery, CO of the Boston Navy Yard.

Notebook on naval warfare kept by Alfred T. Mahan.

Naval order transferring Alfred T. Mahan from the Naval Academy to USS Congress.

Autographed note signed by LCDR S. Maki, Japanese Imperial Navy to Mrs. Mahan, December 25, 1920 and a 144 page manuscript in Japanese of translation of Chapter 11 of Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution, 1793-1812.

Letter of thanks to Minnie DeHaven, written from Manila, PI, on letterhead of Dewey’s flagship, USS OLYMPIA.

Letter to Mr. Reading, Baltimore, Md., requesting a copy of the Federal Republican containing an attack on Porter.

Copy of letter of April 28, 1797, from HMS ORION off Cadiz, Spain to his wife regarding capture of Spanish frigate NINFA and burning of consort ELENA after landing their treasure.