Box 24

Signed postal cover with signatures of Porter and Commodore Murray, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa.

Autographed letter signed to Paul Langdon Norfolk, Va., asking him to serve as his clerk in USS Brooklyn assigned to the Gulf of Mexico. Farragut states that the pay and the travel are not inducements, but he would be pleased if Langdon accepted. Farragut discusses his orders for a trial cruise and other candidates for captain's clerk.

Copy of Autobiography entitled My Life as I Lived it by Mee and edited by Tim Comstock, n.p., 1999, with paternal and maternal ancestry, boyhood, education, service in Navy in USS Quincy at Guadalcanal landing, August 1942, USS Boston in major South Pacific operations, then instructor in CIC, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Postwar career with Standard Oil and Petroleum Consultant for UCAL regents. Interview with David Kennedy, Chair, History Department, Stanford University, 1991, regarding loss of USS Quincy, 7-9 August 1942. Mee's cousin, Luke McNamee, was president of the Naval War College, 1933-1934.

Signature of Dewey in black ink. Above the signature is printed “The Admiral of the Navy, Washington.”

Holograph signature of the General with date of 7 February 1915, written underneath.

Holograph letter signed New Orleans, La., to Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton concerning his drawing up bills of exchange for $3952.54 for payment for repair of vessels. Payment was due prior to death of William Spence.

Autographed letter signed from Seaman White, USS Niagara, New York, to F. A Belcher, Randolph, Mass., regarding life aboard ship, visits of women, sailors and whiskey, change in officers quarters to main deck, liberty on shore but not home, awaiting orders to a foreign station or around Cape Horn to San Francisco, Calif. Conveys his best regards to his parents and friends.

Account of his service in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War entitled "First Ship, USS Alex P. Diachenko (ADP-123), August 1950-December 1951"; Includes USNA cruises, orders to the Twelfth Naval District, then Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif.; Pacific trip to Yokosuka, Japan, to board USS Diachenko, description of ship and officers; Duties as Assistant Chief Engineer; Orders to Pusan, Korea; Duties as Watch Officer and Damage Control Officer; Landing at Inchon; Sasebo, Japan; Minesweeping with Mine Division 31 at Wonsan, Hungnam and Sonjin, Korea; Travel in Japan; Detail on south coast of Korea; Orders to San Diego, Calif., April 1951; Accepted for submarine training, 1951.

Autographed letters signed of Union Navy sailor to his sister Sarah from steam propeller USS Continental, January 24 & 25, 1863, telling of a stormy passage from New York to Key West, FL via Bermuda and the Bahamas. Recounts death and burial at sea of two sailors, conditions in Key West, including weather, free blacks, his health and sends regards to relatives.

Published conference proceeding sponsored by the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., 7 December 1999. Participants include naval officers and naval historians. Edition prepared by David Winkler and Jennifer Lloyd in 2000.