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Anne Sims Hopkins collection of Sims family papers
This collection consists of letters, photographs, invitations, a wedding gift registry, and other papers relating to the Sims family, particularly Admiral William S. Sims and his wife, Anne Hitchcock Sims. The papers detail the Sims family’s personal life and relationship as well as Admiral Sims’s career in the Navy.
Asa Hosmer notebooks
The collection consists of two notebooks, one of which contains copies of letters written to his wife describing the cruelties, the intolerable conditions and the brutality of guards. He also wrote letters to Ludyah Robinson, esq, May 27-30, 1832. There are copies of letters to Mrs. Hosmer from Asa M. and from Stanford Robinson, June 3, 1882, who told her of her son's death; and a letter from James Price to Ludyah Robinson, May 30,1822.
The second notebook contains "a partial history" of the final days of Asa Hosmer and his son, Asa M., based on letters received by his wife and daughter, Sophia Robinson. This account was written by a 20th century descendant and covers the period from 1816 to the 1850s.
Herbert B. Hosmer papers
Naval orders, 1940-1961; Letters and telegrams, 1940-1961; Career and personal photographs; Newspaper clippings, 1939-1948; certificates, 1935-1951; Published articles on the 1939 Columbus Expedition; Books; Naval Aviator's Flight Book; Aviation Notebook; Aviation manuals and handbooks, Identification cards. Newport, RI. 1939-1961.
William C. House and Paul E. Carrigan papers
Letter (copy) from House to CDR Neil F. O'Connor, USN, undated, regarding the Naval Weather Service, assignment to Kiska, Alaska, capture by the Japanese and transported to Japan; scanned copies of photographs of Kiska Island Aerological unit and personnel, 1941, maps, individuals, including Paul Carrigan, airplanes, Navy regunion, book review of Carrigan's The Flying Weatherman of Patrol Wing Four, author's biography, news clippings and letters.
Howard N. Kay papers
6 boxes of professional papers belonging to Howard Kay, spanning his time of service at the Naval Officer Training Center (NOTC) and as the first commander of the Naval Education and Training Center (NETC) at Naval Station Newport, between 1973-1978.
This collection is unprocessed.
Walter B. Howe papers
Correspondence, speeches, financial statements, newspaper clippings and press releases regarding the observance of Navy Day and the Navy League, 1922–1941; Subject Files of the Roberts Pearl Harbor Commission, 1941–1942, regarding the investigation of the attack on Pearl Harbor, including reports, correspondence and firsthand accounts by observers; Subject Files of the Inter-American Escadrille, 1940–1941, including correspondence, cablegrams, reports, newspaper clippings and calling cards; Subject Files regarding the gift of the papers of ADM Mark Bristol to the Library of Congress, 1945–1946; Folio maps (copies) of China and Japan from Admiral Matthew Perry’s cruise, 1853–1854; Speeches on naval topics, 1926–1931; Subject Files on the Washington Conference, 1922, naval parity and the British- Franco-Italian Naval agreement, 1931; Miscellany, including handwritten notes by W.B. Howe, publications, photographs and newspaper clippings.
Daniel Howland papers
Framed photographs of NWC president French E. Chadwick and of Mrs. Chadwick; Letter to R.G. Howland, Butterwood, RI, August 16, 1902, from Johnston, CO USTB BIDDLE regarding collision with the yacht MOOSE; Letter to Flotilla CO NAVTORSTA, Newport, RI, with report to investigating Board, August 16, 1902; First endorsement on Board report, August 26, 1902.
Manley O. Hudson papers
The Manley O. Hudson Papers document the professional activities and interests of a prominent international lawyer during the last ten years of his career. The papers include background materials on several important legal cases with which he was involved as a consultant. They also contain materials relating to his tenure as a professor of international law at the Naval War College.
The collection falls naturally into three well-defined series: Legal Case Files, Subject Files and Miscellany. The Legal Case Files consist of correspondence, briefs, motions, reports, compilations of laws and published articles regarding the California Tidelands Case (1941-1952), which was argued before the Supreme Court, the formulation of a United States Oil Policy during World War II, and the Anglo-Egyptian dispute (1947) concerning the purported violation of Egypt's sovereignty by Great Britain, which ultimately went before the United Nations Security Council. The Subject Files portion of the collection contains correspondence, memoranda, notes and official organizational reports regarding the publication of the seventh volume of International Legislation and the study of international law at the Naval War College. The third series, Miscellany, consists of career-related ephemera, including newspaper clippings, programs and photocopies of articles.
Henry Hull papers
Brochure, briefing books, booklets and notebook regarding visits to Vietnam, Guam, Thailand and Japan; Photographs of visit to USS Proteus (AS-19), 1965; Maps and photographs of Philippine visit, 1967; Folio maps and charts of Vietnam. 1965–1967.
Jay S. Hurlburt papers
Correspondence and memoranda treating Naval War Gaming, Strawman War Gaming Course, and the Strategic Studies Groups, 1982–1987; Classified notes regarding Strategic Study Group Meetings, 1982–1984.