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Paul Schratz papers
Raymond G. O'Connor papers
Correspondence, principally letters received from RADM Edwin T. Layton, 1974–1984; Critique of And I Was There by Layton, et.al.; Vita; Prospectus and copy of Whitehat /Bluejacket: An American Sailor in Peace and War, an account of O’Connor’s career in the U.S. Navy; Published articles, 1967–1992; Typescripts of “Origins of the American Navy: Sea Power in the Colonies and New Nation.” Book entitled Powers of the President in Foreign Affairs, 1945–1965; Subject Files on professional history conferences attended and syllabi and notes for college courses that he taught, 1975–1994. O’Connor was E. J. King Professor of Naval History at the Naval War College, 1967–1968.
David H. Jackson papers
Biographical materials; Academic record; Official Naval Correspondence, 1947–1974; Personal letters sent and received, 1970–1993; Published article, 1968; Sermons, 1977–1994; Subject Files, 1943–1989; Miscellany, including cards, directories, certificates, imprints, invitations, programs; Career photographs, photograph albums, 1943–1994.
Mary Taylor Alger Smith papers
The collection primarily consists of letters written by Mary Taylor Alger Smith (1892-1987) while she accompanied her husband, Commander Roy Campbell Smith, Jr. (1888-1946) on his assignment to the Asiatic Theater from 1925 to 1928.
Jane L. Scheck papers
Correspondence, letters sent to Frank Scheck during her WAVES service in WWII, 1944–1946; Photographs in naval uniform; Promotion certificates to Ensign and Lieutenant (JG); Certificates; Separation and Discharge papers, 1946–1954.
Luisa C. White papers
Correspondence, letters sent and received, 1944–1945, when she was a WAVE at NAS, Atlanta, GA and served as a Link Trainer Instructor, NAS Lake City, FL; Miscellany, including imprints; Photographs in navy uniform.
Bernard L. Pemstein papers
Correspondence, personal letters sent, mainly from U.S. Naval Training Station, Newport, RI, July 6, 1943–August 19, 1943 to his parents and grandmother and from US Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA, September 4, 1943; Letter from nephew Private Edward Sharansky, USA to Mrs. Ida Pemstein, July, 1943; Official application to USNR, supporting documents, 1943 and official letters, 1943.
John W. Wadsworth letters
Correspondence, letters sent from USS Plymouth, in Norfolk, VA, Key West, Cuba, and Haiti, June 3–September 20, 1858, to his mother, brother and sister. He describes life aboard ship, personal details, a trip ashore in Sagua, Cuba, and breakfast with a port officer, visiting shops there, receipt of her letter in Havana, Cuba, his studying Spanish, lack of money, the Cuban señoritas, Negroes of Cuba, the ship’s route, visit to Port au Prince, Haiti, and the Negro population there, criticisms of his mess mates and sailors (their lack of manners, education and selfishness), port call in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to transport U.S. Minister, Mr. Forsyth, home, his unfavorable impressions of the city, voyage to Tampico to protect American property, his desire to be home and his dislike of life at sea.
Robert Chase correspondence
Letters received from his father and stepmother, relatives in England, his fiancée and then wife, Helen Pettingell, sister, grandmother and friends, 1937–1945; Letters sent to his parents, 1944–1945; Letters of Robert Tremblay, Joseph Andrews, Irene Harper (WAC, USA), H. Johnson and Helen to his parents, the Chester Chases, 1943–1945; Christmas cards; Miscellany, including citation for Purple Heart Medal, 1945. The letters received detail events on the home front, politics, and news of friends, movies, wedding plans, FDR’s death, work and trips. Robert’s letters tell about shipboard life on USS Kidd, his health, appearance, a Japanese attack, future plans, meeting friends from home, and leave. Censorship prevented him from writing about the invasions in which they participated.
S. Gilbert Webber papers
Letter sent to and received from his fiancée, Nannie P. Sturtevant of Boston, MA, February 15–November 24, 1862. Webber was a naval surgeon stationed at the Boston Navy Yard and on board USS Ohio during the Civil War. Letters discuss his patients and their ailments, Christianity, his urging his fiancée to become a Christian, the Civil War and slavery, Christian Prayer meetings, his spiritual life and progress.