Box 13

Letter to a Union colonel regarding the Lighthouse Board and conditions in the South during the Civil War; He expresses confidence in General George McClellan and the Union Naval Forces.

Letter to Edward Bok, Editor of Ladies' Home Journal, regarding receipt of a book memorializing Henry W. Beecher.

Letter to Commanding Officer, USS South Carolina, regarding his taking passage in said ship to Pensacola, Fla.

Letter to Dr. Charles D. Hart in reply to a request from the Philadelphia Council of Boy Scouts for a statement and a photograph.

Letter to Lieutenant A. D. Harnell, USS Macedonian, regarding circulating petition for increased pay for the lieutenants on his ship.

Signed photograph of Dewey aboard ship in dress uniform with a large dog, with the Navy band in the background.

Copy of a diary of midshipman's cruise, summer 1912, on the east coast in USS New Hampshire, including a stay in Newport, R.I., where the ship was struck by the Commonwealth of the Fall River line, June 12-17 August 1912. Includes cruise to Iberian Peninsula 7-24 June 1913.

Volume of copies of World War II letters of a lieutenant in the Naval Reserves written to his wife and family, and entitled Dear Ones. Includes naval orders, biography, complier's reminiscences, certificates, clippings and notes on lessons in seamanship, 1944-1945.

Letter to Commodore Lewis Warrington, Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, requesting shot and proof powder for target practice at sea for the crew of the USS Brandywine.

Letter to Commodore Lewis Warrington, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, regarding his compliance with his orders to inspect shots at a foundry near West Point, New York, and report to Commander L. M. Powell.