Box 17

Autographed letter signed from Luce in USS Minnesota, to John G. Walker, 1878, discussing indiscriminate restoration to the active list of naval officers. Each case should be referred by Congress to a board of naval officers for decision. States that Captain Law will be restored to his position as well as others.

Holograph letter signed to Thomas Gibbons, regarding Luce's account of Commodore Biddle's visit to Japan in 1846 and his desire to post a reward in Annapolis newspapers for the loss of Biddle's illustrations of the Columbus and Vincennes.

Reminiscences entitled “A Navy Wife Remembers”, which includes an account of her trip to New York City, her engagement to William Crose, and people, events and customs encountered at various duty stations in Savannah, Georgia, Sitka, Alaska, China, Japan, the Philippine Islands, and American Samoa. Page 1 of this document is not present.

Letter to Mr. O'Donnell, Washington, D.C., referring him to Alfred T. Mahan 's work for an understanding of a fleet in being.

Holograph diary that First Engineer Dade kept aboard the USS Saranac, 1853–1854, in the Mediterranean. The journal contains descriptions of visits to Italy, Portugal, the Balearic Islands and Malta and naval customs, quarantine, burial at sea, as well as drawings and sketches of naval engineering and mathematical principles. Also contains a list of officers on the SARANAC and a copy of a letter by A. Lawton, Chief Engineer, USS Hartford, Kanagawa, Japan 1860.

Reminiscences entitled “A Navy Wife Remembers”, which includes an account of her trip to New York City, her engagement to William Crose, and people, events and customs encountered at various duty stations in Savannah, Georgia, Sitka, Alaska, China, Japan, the Philippine Islands, and American Samoa. Comments on the Pandemic of 1918.

Letter from New Canaan, CT sent to RADM Joseph C. Wylie, USN (Ret.), regarding his service as CO MTBS 15 in the Italian Theatre during WWII and problems of command and control with the Royal Navy, the loss of amphibious scouts reconnoitering Anzio beaches prior to the assault, superiority of U.S. radar, tactical doctrine, torpedoes, and the U.S. mission and role in combined command.

Remarks made at dedication ceremonies of a plaque honoring war mothers donated by San Francisco, Calif., Post No. 1.

Holograph letter signed to Mr. Fallen, n.p., regarding the fate of the intelligence-gathering mission of USS Pueblo in 1968, his thoughts on the CIA and intelligence operations and on the treatment of LCOL Oliver North.

Postal Cover with $.03 Alamo stamp postmarked Newport News, Va., with Virginian Peninsula Association of Commerce cachet showing USS Yorktown commemorating its launching. Signature of Eleanor Roosevelt on the side.