Court martial records of Paymaster Charles D. Mansfield, 1869

Manuscript Collection 10, the papers of Stephen B. Luce, was created in 1970 from a Naval War College Library historical file. Information on provenance is unknown. This small collection consists of three series: correspondence, writings and miscellany. The correspondence series, letters received and copies of letters sent, 1876-1911, includes such prominent correspondents as Alfred T. Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Stockton and Henry C. Lodge. Topics at issue are Naval War College lectures, the publication of Luce's own articles, the continued existence of the College, A.T. Mahan's writings and war games.

Series II, writings, contains several articles written by Luce for various publications, including the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings and The North American Review, 1905-1911, along with reviews of several of Mahan's works. Finally, miscellany, series III, has tributes to Stephen B. Luce, articles by other writers, and publisher's notes.

A collection of photocopies of the publications of Stephen B. Luce, 1862-1911, was a 1973 gift to the Naval War College Foundation for deposit in the Naval Historical Collection by John B. Hattendorf, co-editor of the first contribution to the Naval War College Historical Monograph Series, The Writings of Stephen B. Luce. These items comprise manuscript collection 23.

The Captain Kay Russell collection of research source materials on Stephen B. Luce is the third major component of this register. This collection was presented to the Naval War College Foundation in 1980 for deposit in the Naval Historical Collection by Mrs. Kay Russell, through the good offices of Professor Thomas Etzold. Unfortunately, Captain Russell died before he was able to complete his graduate work and his dissertation on Luce.

This collection consists, in part, of three boxes of copies of S.B. Luce correspondence, lectures, articles, and reports reproduced from the collections at the Library of Congress. In addition, there are copies of portions of books and articles by other authors, and Russell's holograph and typewritten notes, and seminar and term papers.

The appendix lists items either by or about S.B. Luce found in the Naval War College Archives or other manuscript collections in the Naval Historical Collection. One particularly significant collection consists of 19 reels of microfilm of the Luce papers on deposit in the Library of Congress. Finally, Naval War College issued publications about Luce complete the entries.