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Nicholson, Sommerville, 1822-1905. Papers of Sommerville Nicholson, 1839-1881.

Title: Papers of Sommerville Nicholson, 1839-1881.

Official, general, and family correspondence, and orders to duty. Correspondents include Nicholson's mother, Helen Lispinard Nicholson, Edward C. Anderson, John P. Kennedy, John Y. Mason, Matthew C. Perry, William Ballard Preston, Alexander C. Rhind, George M. Robeson, Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, Frank B. Rose, Isaac Toucey, Abel P. Upshur, Lewis Warrington, and Gideon Welles.

ArchivalResource: 70 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83212262 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

Barron, James, 1769-1851. Philadelphia Navy Yard collection, 1831-1865.

Title: Philadelphia Navy Yard collection, 1831-1865.

Consists chiefly of official correspondence and a few documents related to the operations of the Philadelphia Navy Yard starting in the 1830s and leading up to the Civil War. The collection numbers over 500 letters and orders written by personnel of various U.S. Navy Department bureaus and its Commissioner's Office to commanders of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, providing a very clear picture of the function of the various bureaus in the construction and outfitting of naval ships.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 linear ft. (1 archival box, 1 half-size archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429426569 View

Carrington, Eliza Jaquelin Ambler, fl. 1796-1823,. Papers of the Ambler, Carrington and Minor families [manuscript], 1796-1845.

Title: Papers of the Ambler, Carrington and Minor families [manuscript], 1796-1845.

The collections contains a letterbook with manuscript copies, 1883, of letters, 1780-1823, from Eliza Jacquelin Ambler Carrington to her sister, Ann Ambler Fisher, and friends Mildred Dudley and Frances Cairnes. The letters convey news of family and friends including Eliza and Ann's brother-in-law John Marshall. A scandal involving the seduction of family friend Rachel Warrington by the Viscount Rochambeau and the U.S. naval career of their son Louis [Lewis] Warrington is discussed for forty years. Other topics include life in colonial Yorktown, Va., royal governors Botetourt and Dunmore, the siege of Yorktown, flight to Winchester, Va., Tarleton's raid, verbal abuse of a family slave by visitors from England, a visit to Mt. Vernon shortly before George Washington's death, and the decline of the Anglican church after the Revolution. The volume also includes an introduction and one chapter of a proposed autobiographical novel by Carrington titled "Variety or the Vicissitudes of Life," an extract from a letter by a sister-in-law of Chief Justice Marshall and a copy of Marshall's eulogy for his wife. In addition there are eleven letters, 1831-1845, from John Barbee Minor to Lucian Minor and Charles R. Slaughter about his student life at Kenyon College and the University of Virginia. Of interest is an 1845 letter discussing the possible sale of a slave.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647869429 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Carrington, Eliza Jaquelin Ambler, fl. 1796-1823. Papers of Eliza Jaquelin Ambler Carrington [manuscript], 1780-1832.

Title: Papers of Eliza Jaquelin Ambler Carrington [manuscript], 1780-1832.

The papers consist chiefly of letters Eliza Jaquelin Carrington to her youngest sister, Ann Fisher, 1796-1825. There are also letters from her to Mildred Dudley and Francis Cairnes. Topics include family life; growing up in Yorktown, Va.; Revolutionary War experiences; flight to Charlottesville to escape the British; the destruction of Yorktown; John Marshall; Lewis Warrington, the illegitimate son of Rochambeau's son whose mother was a member of the family; travel in Virginia; and a visit to Mount Vernon. In addition the collection contains a letter, 1815 May 1, J.A.B. Fisher to his mother regarding his becoming a minister; and a eulogy, 1832 December, by John Marshall for his wife.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647881056 View

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.). Office of the Commanding Naval Officer. Letters received, 1831-1842.

Title: Letters received, 1831-1842.

Collection of letters received by the Commanding Officer of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, sent by the U.S. Navy Department, Board of Navy Commissioners, including 59 signed by John Rodgers, 58 by Isaac Chauncey, 1 by A.P. Upshur and 61 by Lewis Warrington. The letters concern the refitting, outfitting and building of ships at the yard, and while many refer to enclosures no longer with the letter, some include specifications and prices for timber, masts, sails, ordnance, etc. Some ships mentioned are the Pennsylvania, the Warren, the Raritan and the Enterprise.

ArchivalResource: 183 items (1 clamshell box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57469468 View

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