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The Naval History Society Collection, 1721-1995 (bulk 1781-1936)

Title: The Naval History Society Collection 1721-1995 (bulk 1781-1936)

The collection consists of 53 separate collections, many named for renowned naval officers or vessels, documenting both military engagements and routine shipboard experience on naval and some commercial vessels, as well as naval design and the education of officers. The collections include correspondence, letter books, journals and diaries, lectures, essays, account books, biographical writings, genealogical information, scrapbooks, orders, notes, articles and clippings, photographs, manuscripts, and ships' logs, as well as the organizational records and correspondence of the Naval History Society itself.

ArchivalResource: 70.0 Linear feet; (104 boxes, 230 volumes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/NHSColl/NHSColl.html View

Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Title: Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Papers of American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his family.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00673/catalog View

Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich papers on the Princeton University Naval Training Unit, 1918-1920

Title: Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich papers on the Princeton University Naval Training Unit 1918-1920

Rear Admiral Casper Frederick Goodrich was the commander of the Naval Training Unit and the Pay Officers Material School established at Princeton University in 1917. The records consist of Goodrich's correspondence and program records pertaining to the administration of the Naval Training Unit at Princeton University.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet; 1 box

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cf95jb47n View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Goodrich, Caspar F. (Caspar Frederick), 1847-1925. Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich papers on the Princeton University Naval Training Unit, 1918-1920.

Title: Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich papers on the Princeton University Naval Training Unit, 1918-1920.

Consists of Goodrich's correspondence and program records pertaining to the administration of the Naval Training Unit at Princeton University.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74214449 View

George E. Belknap Papers, 1857-1903

Title: George E. Belknap Papers 1857-1903

Naval officer. Correspondence, articles, memoranda, and miscellaneous papers relating to Belknap’s naval career.

ArchivalResource: 1,400 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010050 View

Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records, 1893-1921

Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records

Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from 1896-1921.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear feet (24 boxes and 17 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00163/catalog View

Manwaring, G. E. (George Ernest), 1882-1939. Letter from G.E. Manwaring thanking him for favorable commentary on his book The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring.

Title: Letter from G.E. Manwaring thanking him for favorable commentary on his book The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring.

Letter from G.E. Manwaring, August 5, 1921, London, to RADM Goodrich, thanking Goodrich for favorable commentary on his book The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17928783 View

Sherman, Edwin Allen, 1829-1914. Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Title: Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Letters, manuscripts of writings, and clippings relating primarily to Edwin Allen Sherman, especially to his service in the Mexican War, his successful efforts to erect a monument in Monterey, California to honor John Drake Sloat, and other activities designed to commemorate historic events in California. His writings include Personal reminiscences of a California pioneer of '49 and The true account of the great Jesuit conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln "the martyr president" of the United States, Friday April 14th 1865. Includes also some correspondence and papers of his wife, Adeline A. Dodd Sherman; his son, Edwin Allen Sherman; and his grandson, Allen Banks Sherman. Four series: 1. Correspondence, 1871-1971; 2. Manuscripts ? 3. Miscellaney, 1882- 1936; 4. Clippings, 1892-1932.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.1 linear ft.).Sloat monument correspondence and MS of Sherman's autobiography (formerly BANC MSS C-B 719) : partial microfilm reel (36 exposures) : negative (Rich. 533:12) and postive (FILM C-B 719).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545142 View

James Russell Lowell additional papers, 1802-1898.

Title: James Russell Lowell additional papers, 1802-1898.

Correspondence and financial papers of the American author James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00407/catalog View

Caspar F. Goodrich Collection, 1862-1933

Title: Caspar F. Goodrich Collection 1862-1933

The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered while an instructor at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, extracts from the diary of his grandfather Captain James Goodrich, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Spanish-American War.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 Linear feet; (3 boxes, 1 volume)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/Goodrich/Goodrich.html View

Stephen Bleecker Luce Papers 1799-1955 (bulk 1842-1912)

Title: Stephen Bleecker Luce Papers 1799-1955 (bulk 1842-1912)

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, order books, subject files, scrapbooks, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellany documenting Luce's naval career, including his work to establish the United States Naval War College and the Naval Historical Society, his service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and his diplomatic role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries dispute (1887).

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 23 containers; 9 linear feet; 19 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084 View

Naval History Society. Naval History Society Collection, 1721-1993 (bulk, 1781-1936).

Title: Naval History Society Collection, 1721-1993 (bulk, 1781-1936).

The collection consists of 53 separate collections, many named for renowned naval officers or vessels, documenting both military engagements and routine shipboard experience on naval and some commercial vessels, as well as naval design and the education of officers. Included are correspondence, letterbooks, journals and diaries, lectures, essays, account books, biographical writings, genealogical information, scrapbooks, orders, notes, articles and clippings, photographs, manuscripts, and ships' logs. The collection also includes the organizational records and correspondence of the Naval History Society itself.

ArchivalResource: 70 linear feet (104 boxes, 230 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/481882003 View

Barnes, John S. (John Sanford), 1836-1911. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1756-1931.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1756-1931.

The collection consists of more than 1,100 letters, clippings, reprints, and other documents amassed by John Sanford Barnes and others to, from, and about notable persons including many with named series in the Naval History Society Collection (e.g., William Bainbridge, John Barry , French E. Chadwick, Gustavus Conyngham, Gustavus Vasa Fox, Caspar F. Goodrich, Isaac Hull, John Paul Jones, Richard Worsam Meade 3rd, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Henry A. Wise). Highlights of the series include documents signed by Presidents John Quincy Adams and James Madison; others signed by John C. Calhoun, Salmon P. Chase, Richard Henry Dana, David Farragut, Robert Fulton, John Hancock, Rufus King, Seth Low, Robert Morris, and Matthew C. Perry; and a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair removed after his death and sent by Robert Todd Lincoln to Gustavus Vasa Fox at the latter's request. Among David Porter's letters are cartoons and drawings by him, including one of animal-headed naval officers listening to explanations of the value of steam-powered vessels, which complement others in the Naval History Society's Fox collection. The William Smith folder includes a map of an attack on Whampoa, China, in 1870. It is unclear what Barnes's connection was to Nikola Tesla: letters from him indicate that he had visited Barnes in New York in 1904.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/480242487 View

John Jay Chapman papers

Title: John Jay Chapman papers

Correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and his family and friends, as well as compositions by him.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00932/catalog View

Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917. Certificate, February 11, 1905.

Title: Certificate, February 11, 1905.

Life membership certificate in the U.S. Naval Institute signed by RADM Caspar Goodrich, president, and Philip R. Alger, secretary, February 11, 1905.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 14" x 12".

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/710041897 View

Goodrich, Caspar F. (Caspar Frederick), 1847-1925. Caspar Goodrich Collection, 1862-1933.

Title: Caspar Goodrich Collection, 1862-1933.

The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, extracts from the diary of his grandfather Captain James Goodrich, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Spanish-American War.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475149249 View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View