This record group is comprised of correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, and plans regarding the establishment, administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station somewhere in the Narragansett Bay, R.I. Of particular interest may be correspondence with discussions about merging the NWC with the Naval Torpedo Station in 1888 and the possible removal of NWC to Washington, D.C. in 1910-1911. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents, Charles Stockton and French E. Chadwick.

This record group is comprised of correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, and plans regarding the establishment, administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station somewhere in the Narragansett Bay, R.I. Of particular interest may be correspondence with discussions about merging the NWC with the Naval Torpedo Station in 1888 and the possible removal of NWC to Washington, D.C. in 1910-1911. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents, Charles Stockton and French E. Chadwick.

Letters received from Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, Holden A. Evans, Philip R. Alger, Washington Irving Chambers, R.D. Tindale, regarding naval orders, letter of recommendation, electric primers, signal shapes for torpedo practice, receipt of torpedo books, torpedo experiments, and Mark III short torpedo.

Letters sent by A.H. Whittlesey, C.W. Owston, F. Ruffin and U.S. Naval Regulation Circular No. 10 from Secretary of the Navy John D. Long. Letters regarding the Schiess Cutter, visit to Brown & Sharpe, return of ten barrels of oil, ordering a carpet, and the request for a boatswain at the Torpedo Station is denied.

This record group is comprised of correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, and plans regarding the establishment, administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station somewhere in the Narragansett Bay, R.I. Of particular interest may be correspondence with discussions about merging the NWC with the Naval Torpedo Station in 1888 and the possible removal of NWC to Washington, D.C. in 1910-1911. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents, Charles Stockton and French E. Chadwick.

Official naval commission appointing William A. Marshall a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy from March 3, 1899, signed by President William McKinley and SECNAV John D. Long on April 20, 1899.

Official naval commission appointing William A. Marshall a Commander in the U.S. Navy from December 27, 1901, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt and SECNAV John D. Long on March 21, 1902.