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Correspondence, memoranda, writings, notes, reports, military orders, biographical material, clippings, and other papers primarily documenting Sims's naval career and his work relating to naval reforms. Documents activities as an intelligence officer on the USS Charleston (Cruiser) at the China Station (1895-1896); naval attaché in Paris, Madrid, and Saint Petersburg (1896-1900); and commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe during World War I. Subjects include gunnery, naval preparedness, and the U.S. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation. Includes papers of Sims's wife, Anne Hitchcock Sims. Correspondents include W.F. Arnold, John V. Babcock, Sir Lewis Bayly, William Shepherd Benson, Josephus Daniels, W. Atlee Edwards, Bradley A. Fiske, William F. Fullam, Herbert Hoover, Tracy B. Kittredge, A.T. Mahan, Ridley McLean, William Veazie Pratt, Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle, Henry Reuterdahl, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and members of the Sims (Simms) family.
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Correspondence, World War, 1914-1918, Intelligence specialists, Naval gunnery, United States, Military attachés, United States. Navy. China Station, American Naval operations, Foreign service, Operational readiness, United States. Navy, Charleston (Cruiser), United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of NavigationPeople
William F. Fullam (1855-1926), A. T. Mahan (1840-1914), Lewis Bayly Sir (1857-1938), Tracy B. Kittredge (b. 1891), Henry Reuterdahl (1871-1925), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Ridley McLean (1872-1933), Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885-1957), John V. Babcock, W. F. Arnold, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), W. Atlee Edwards, William Veazie Pratt (1869-1957), William Shepherd Benson (1855-1932), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle (1873-1932), Bradley A. Fiske (1854-1942), Josephus Daniels (1862-1948), Simms familyShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition of Series 1. Subseries : Special Correspondence, 1898-1951, (containers 45-91) available, no. 14,810.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Navy Publications and Printing Service Office, Naval District.
Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1961-1972.
Converted to gift, 1998.
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Naval officer.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
Register published by the Library of Congress, 1971.
Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.
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