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Papers: Correspondence, personal letters sent March 13, 1918-June 22, 1918 to friend Wesley Smith, Roslyn, NY, regarding his assignment to USS Ossippee awaiting overseas orders, the Philadelphia Navy Yard and training at Camp Upton, NY, during WWI.

Paymaster’s records kept aboard USS Kenosha, USS Plymouth, USS Congress, USS Lancaster, and USS Trenton, 1869–1887, consisting of dates of departure, ports visited, dates of arrival, distances traveled, length of cruises, days at sea, days in port, and miscellaneous related and personal notes; Memoranda on ship’s expenses, pay, and personal matters and accounts, 1883–1893.

Letters to his mother, 1862–1863, written while he was a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, Newport, RI, 1862–1863.

U.S. Naval Academy diploma, 1875; U.S. Naval commissioning certificates signed by Presidents and Secretaries of the Navy, 1882, 1883, 1888, 1899, 1903, 1908, 1911; Army commission certificate, 1916 signed by the President and Secretary of War; Copies of messages, reports, ship’s log entries and other items relating to the cutting of the ocean cable at the entrance to the harbor of Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1898–1899.

Photographs of surrender of VADM Kamada, CO of Naval Forces, Dutch Borneo to MAJ GEN E.J. Milford, CO, Seventh Australian Division; Miscellany, including news release, paper money and instructions for rescue of downed aviators, 1945.

Letters received from presidents, of the Naval War College, Newport, RI, 1895–1927.

Letters received from presidents, of the Naval War College, Newport, RI, 1895–1927.

Letters received from presidents, of the Naval War College, Newport, RI, 1895–1927.

Letters received from Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN, 1944–1963; Letter relating to Moore-Spruance letters, 1959.