Box 2

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.

Letter from Lieutenant C. H. Harlow at the Library and Naval War Records office to Captain H. C. Taylor, President of the Naval War College. In this letter, Harlow describes his plan for "proving the efficiency of Homing Pigeons for war purposes" at the Naval War College.