Box 17

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.

Reminisences of Louisa Taylor Alger (1886–1962) written in response to questions concerning her grandfather, General Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army, during the Civil War on May 27, 1955. These reminiscences were transcribed, edited and typed by Mrs. Gert Ehrlich of Schenectady, NY in December 1961.

(Photocopy)

Letter written by Stephen B. Luce to an unnamed commodore from the Naval Academy in Newport R.I., regarding personal and financial business, his orders to USS Nantucket. memories of Fauvel on the Macedonian, and the trials of moving.