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    <title>Dudley Wright Knox papers, circa 1864-1950 (bulk 1921-1946)</title>
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    <namePart>Knox, Dudley Wright</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1877-1960</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, book file, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Knox's activities as director of the U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library (1921-1946), as secretary of the Naval Historical Foundation (1926-1946), and as an author of books and articles on naval affairs.  The papers document Knox's views on international naval limitation conferences, naval aviation, the revival of a strong merchant marine, naval readiness, relations with East Asia, foreign trade, and national defense.  Includes typescripts and letters, reviews, and clippings relating to Knox's book, A History of the United States Navy (1936).  Also includes photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to efforts by Knox and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to publish naval records concerning American wars.</abstract>
  <abstract>Chief correspondent is Thomas Goddard Frothingham.  Other correspondents include J. H. Adams, John V. Babcock, Earle Henry Balch, Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, James Phinney Baxter, Charles Bittinger, Wilson Brown, Howard G. Brownson, Willard H. Brownson, Raymond Leslie Buell, Charles Perry Burt, Kenneth G. Castleman, Bennett Cerf, William Bell Clark, Wat Tyler Cluverius, George P. Colvocoresses, Albert Lyman Cox, Leonard M. Cox, Thomas T. Craven, Josephus Daniels, Ralph E. Davis, Harvey A. DeWeerd, Philip Robert Dillon, Ralph Earle, Edwin A. Falk, Guy Stanton Ford, George Edmund Foss, Julius Augustus Furer, William Howard Gardiner, Charles E. Gilpin, Harpur Allen Gosnell, Edwin E. Grabhorn, Fitzhugh Green, Kent Roberts Greenfield, F. Griffith, John George Hartwig, Jan Hasbrouck, N. A. Helmer, Roy Hoffman, James J. Hogan, Franklin Henry Hooper, Alfred G. Howe, Hiram Johnson, Ira Rich Kent, John Knox, Warren B. Koehler, William Chauncey Langdon, Robert J. LaPorte, Henry Cabot Lodge, Stanford E. Moses, Orson D. Mumm, R. E. Pope, Charles N. Robinson, William Sowden Simms, Edward E. Spafford, J. D. Springer, Harold R. Stark, and Lewis L. Strauss.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Naval officer and historian.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009197">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009197</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, J. H. (John Haslup)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1927</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Babcock, John V. (John Vincent)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Balch, Earle Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Baldridge, Harry Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1952</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baldwin, Hanson Weightman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1991</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baxter, James Phinney</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1975</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bittinger, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1970</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, Wilson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1957</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brownson, Howard G. (Howard Gray)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Brownson, Willard H. (Willard Herbert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1935</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buell, Raymond Leslie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burt, Charles Perry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1949</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Castleman, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Galleher)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1954</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cerf, Bennett</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-1971</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Clark, William Bell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1968</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Cluverius, Wat Tyler</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Colvocoresses, George P. (George Partridge)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1932</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cox, Albert Lyman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1965</namePart>
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      <namePart>Cox, Leonard M. (Leonard Martin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1943</namePart>
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      <namePart>Craven, Thomas T. (Thomas Tingey)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1950</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Daniels, Josephus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Davis, Ralph E</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>DeWeerd, Harvey A. (Harvey Arthur)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Dillon, Philip Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Earle, Ralph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1939</namePart>
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      <namePart>Falk, Edwin A. (Edwin Albert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ford, Guy Stanton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1962</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foss, George Edmund</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1936</namePart>
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      <namePart>Frothingham, Thomas Goddard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1937</namePart>
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      <namePart>Furer, Julius Augustus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1963</namePart>
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      <namePart>Gardiner, William Howard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1952</namePart>
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      <namePart>Gosnell, Harpur Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Green, Fitzhugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1947</namePart>
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      <namePart>Greenfield, Kent Roberts</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1967</namePart>
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      <namePart>Griffith, F. (Frederick)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hartwig, John George</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hasbrouck, Jan</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hoffman, Roy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hogan, James J</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hooper, Franklin Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1940</namePart>
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      <namePart>Howe, Alfred G. (Alfred Graham)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1970</namePart>
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      <namePart>Johnson, Hiram</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1945</namePart>
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      <namePart>Kent, Ira Rich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1945</namePart>
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      <namePart>Knox, John Crawford</namePart>
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      <namePart>Koehler, Warren B</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Langdon, William Chauncy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1947</namePart>
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      <namePart>LaPorte, Robert J. S</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
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      <namePart>Moses, Stanford E. (Stanford Elwood)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Mumm, Orson D</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pope, R. E. (Ralph Elton)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Robinson, Charles N. (Charles Napier)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sims, William Sowden</namePart>
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    <topic>History</topic>
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    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <geographic>East Asia</geographic>
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