Box 4

English seaman’s unpublished notebook entitled “William Carter’s Navigation Book, Givet Prison, France, 1807,” including watercolor drawings of ships, nautical scenes, instruments and equipment; Navigation calculations; Notes on seamanship; Log entry of voyage in the ADVENTURE OF LONDON, Madeira, etc., April-May 1796 (prepared or transcribed in Givet Prison); Log entry; Journal of voyage in RICHARD LANCASTER from the Spurn to the Neye of Norway, April 1-2, 1805, kept by John David Banks of Pillan (prepared or transcribed in Givet Prison).

Envelope fragments, circa 1861-65, addressed to Mishipmen Francis D. Foote and J.H. Dayton, students at the U.S. Naval Academy, Newport, R.I.

Cooy of a letter attributed to a Japanese Second Lieutenant regarding favorable impression of Americans and exceptional treatment as a prisoner of war on U.S. Navy vessel during WWII. Copies of the letter, actually devised by U.S. Intelligence, were dropped over Tokyo during U.S. bombardment in February 1945.

Letter from SecNav George M. Robeson, December 12, 1871, Washington, DC, commending Raymond Rodgers for his heroism in saving the life of a drowning crew member aboard the USS FRANKLIN in May 1871.

Letter to Mary Ingersoll-Curtis in Greely, Colo., 1 April 1992, regarding U.S. military capability to invade North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and the possible entrance of China into the conflict as a result. He disputes the latter and felt civilian management of the conflict led to more casualties than the Persian Gulf War where the military exerted control.

Letter, May 1, 1862, from David Farragut to General Benjamin F. Butler. Written on board the Hartford off New Orleans, Louisiana and relating to the capture of the city.

Letter from Secretary of the Navy William Whitney assigning Rodgers to temporary duty aboard a dynamite gun cruiser in Philadelphia, Pa.

Letter to Samuel Hambleton, Navy purser, with instructions regarding finances.

Letter to Lieutenant Theodoric Porter (son), regarding family matters and official Navy business.

Signatures of members of U.S. Navy Court Martial Board and charges brought against Commodore T. Craven, Captain of the USS Niagara, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1865. With hand written note of RADM. Alexander A.S. Wotherspoon, USN (Ret.).