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Rodgers Family Papers, 1788-1944, (bulk 1820-1930)

Title: Rodgers Family Papers 1788-1944 (bulk 1820-1930)

Rodgers (Rogers) family. Correspondence, journals, drafts of writings and speeches, transcripts of radio broadcasts, book reviews, notes and notebooks, biographical material, and other papers relating chiefly to the naval careers of John Rodgers (1773-1838), John Rodgers (1812-1882), William Ledyard Rodgers (1860-1944), John Augustus Rodgers (1848-1933), and John Rodgers (1881-1926). Includes correspondence of the Hodge family, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), and other relatives of the Rodgers family.

ArchivalResource: 15,500 items; 60 containers plus 1 oversize; 20 linear feet

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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

Anderson, Joseph Reid, 1813-1892,. Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

Title: Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, biographical material, photographs, clippings and memorabilia. The correspondence discusses genealogy, A.L. Rives' studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and his work for the Richmond and Danville Railroad Co., and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy's 1914 London trip. The financial and legal papers contain a copy of the 1777 will of William Rives of Sussex County and bills from French tradesmen. Genealogical papers trace the Belling, Macmurdo, Page, Starke, Rivers, and Walker families, and biographical material contains information on W.C. Rives, A.L. Rives and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. Two childhood journals, 1874 and 1879 of Amélie Rives are present as are her marriage service book, 1896, horoscopes, and clippings regarding her two husbands and her literary career. Of interest is a petition to Napoleon III regarding the arbitration of claims against the American ship General Armstrong. The collection also contains calling cards, passports, invitations, and a poetry album. In the papers are copies and extracts of letters from Joseph Reid Anderson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Robert Edward Lee, Robert McClelland, and Montgomery Cunningham Meigs. There are two telegraph messages from William Tecumseh Sherman and an autograph note of Marie Amelie de Bourbon. Other correspondents include Adair Pleasants Archer, John Mercer Brooke, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Bernard Morris Lee Ernst, William Buel Franklin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Richard Hovey, Jean Julien Lemordant, Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer, Henry Shelton Sanford, William Glover Stanard, Roberta Wellford, and Jeremy Francis Gilmer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

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Brooke, John M. (John Mercer), 1826-1906. John M. Brooke papers, 1859-1898 [manuscript].

Title: John M. Brooke papers, 1859-1898 [manuscript].

Letters, 1861-1863, from Brooke to his wife; letters, 1896 and 1898, from Barton H. Wise to Brooke; Brooke's diary, 1859-1860, at Yokohama, Japan; and his nautical log and personal diary, February-March 1860, kept while he sailed to California on a Japanese ship, the Kanrin Maru, which was on a diplomatic mission to the United States. Letters from Brooke to his wife, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Seldon Garnett Brooke, concern his daughter's illness and other family matters; letters from Barton H. Wise ask whether Brooke consulted Commodore James Barron's "Model of an Ironclad" when Brooke helped Mallory develop the "Merrimac." The diary Brooke kept in Yokohama reports his work and social activities, and describes Yokohama and the Japanese people with whom Brooke had contact. The diary Brooke kept on board the Japanese ship records position and winds, events on shipboard, physical descriptions of Japanese officers, necessary Japanese phrases, observations on discipline and organization of the Japanese crew, and comments on the ship's history and equipment.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26243089 View

Hunter, William W. Letters, 1864-1865.

Title: Letters, 1864-1865.

Letters to Hunter from Sidney Smith Lee, captain in charge of the Office of Orders and Detail, C.S.A. Navy Department, from John M. Brooke, commander in charge of the Office of Ordnance and Hydrography, C.S.A. Navy Dept., and from other naval officers regarding ships, supplies, watchwords, men absent without leave and deserters, courts-martial, the laying of torpedoes in the harbor of Savannah, and other naval matters, with numerous references to various Confederate ships.

ArchivalResource: 105 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19851312 View

John M. Brooke Papers, ., 1859-1898

Title: John M. Brooke Papers, . 1859-1898

John Mercer Brooke was a United States and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute. The collection contains letters, 1861-1863, from Brooke to his wife; letters, 1896 and 1898, from Barton H. Wise to Brooke; Brooke's diary, 1859-1860, at Yokohama, Japan; and his nautical log and personal diary, February-March 1860, kept while he sailed to California on a Japanese ship, the Kanrin Maru, which was on a diplomatic mission to the United States. Letters from Brooke to his wife, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Seldon Garnett Brooke, concern his daughter's illness and other family matters; letters from Barton H. Wise ask whether Brooke consulted Commodore James Barron's when Brooke helped Mallory develop the Merrimac. The diary Brooke kept in Yokohama reports his work and social activities, and describes Yokohama and the Japanese people with whom Brooke had contact. The diary Brooke kept on board the Japanese ship records position and winds, events on shipboard, physical descriptions of Japanese officers, necessary Japanese phrases, observations on discipline and organization of the Japanese crew, and comments on the ship's history and equipment. Model of an Ironclad

ArchivalResource: 12

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Brooke,John_M.html View

de la Corte, Don Felipe,. Correspondence on the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's surveying expedition, 1852-1860.

Title: Correspondence on the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's surveying expedition, 1852-1860.

Photostats of letters relating to the Ringgold-Rodgers Expedition and the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's 1858-1859 surveying expedition to Hawaii and Japan. Includes Edward Meyer Kern's letters of application and appointment as artist and photographer for the expedition (including letters to Cadwaladar Ringgold about the cost of Kern's equipment), letters of preparation for the Ringgold-Rogers Expedition, a series of letters from John Mercer Brooke to Navy Secretary Isaac Toucey describing the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's expedition from 1858-1860 (including descriptions of their travels, their interactions with French and Japanese sailors, and the eventual wreck of the Fenimore Cooper), letters between Brooke and Mariana Islands Governor Don Felipe de la Corte regarding sailors from the shipwrecked U.S.S. Lexington and a separate account of the shipwreck, and a letter from A.D. Piper to Brooke about John H. Parker and the Pacific Guano Company. Also includes a letter from Russian Navy Commander A.A. Popoff to Brooke regarding the condition of the Fenimore Cooper.

ArchivalResource: 31 letters, negative photostats.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647767844 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Tazewell family. Papers, 1785-1865.

Title: Papers, 1785-1865.

These photostats are various commissions, military and civil, from governors of Virginia to Henry Tazewell, his son, Littleton Waller, and his son-in-law, Edmund Bradford. Letters from Anne E. Tazewell Bradford to her sister Sarah (Sally) Tazewell, give her impressions of the last days of the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 19 items (33 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145408439 View

Hunter, William W. Letters, 1864-1865.

Title: Letters, 1864-1865.

Letters to Hunter from Sidney Smith Lee, captain in charge of the Office of Orders and Detail, C.S.A. Navy Department, from John M. Brooke, commander in charge of the Office of Ordnance and Hydrography, C.S.A. Navy Dept., and from other naval officers regarding ships, supplies, watchwords, men absent without leave and deserters, courts-martial, the laying of torpedoes in the harbor of Savannah, and other naval matters, with numerous references to various Confederate ships.

ArchivalResource: 105 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154270697 View

Ost, Charles J. [Semmes Battery and vicinity, Chesterfield County, Virginia, 1864] / traced Nov 8th 1864 ; Charles J. Ost, draftsman ; appd John M. Brooke, comdr in chief, Ord & Hydy.

Title: [Semmes Battery and vicinity, Chesterfield County, Virginia, 1864] / traced Nov 8th 1864 ; Charles J. Ost, draftsman ; appd John M. Brooke, comdr in chief, Ord & Hydy. [1864]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. col. ; 54 x 65 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54854408 View