Sellers, David Foote 1874-1949 creator mixed material monographic eng 6,500 20 10 Correspondence, memoranda, journals, notebooks, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Sellers's naval career. Topics include his duty as cadet midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy; his service during the Spanish-American War, the Samoan campaign, Philippine Insurrection, and World War I; as naval aide to the White House; as aide to the commander of the German fleet (Kriegsmarine) visiting the United States; his service relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Calif. (1915); as commander of the Naval Training Station at San Diego, Calif.; as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy Special Service Squadron; as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy U.S. Fleet; and as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. Correspondence relates chiefly to his duty as commander of the U.S. Navy Special Service Squadron during the Nicaraguan uprising (1927-1929). Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harold W. Dodds, Helen Keller, and Dudley Wright Knox. Open to research. Naval officer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194 Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection. Adams, Charles Francis 1866-1954 Correspondence Baldridge, Harry Alexander 1880-1952 Correspondence Baldwin, Hanson Weightman 1903-1991 Correspondence Byrd, Richard Evelyn 1888-1957 Correspondence Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis) 1889-1980 Correspondence Keller, Helen 1880-1968 Correspondence Knox, Dudley Wright 1877-1960 Correspondence Germany. Kriegsmarine. United States. Naval Training Station (San Diego, Calif.) United States. Navy Officers United States. Navy. U.S. Fleet. United States. Navy. Special Service Squadron. United States Naval Academy. Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) Spanish-American War, 1898 Naval operations, American World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations, American Nicaragua History 1909-1937 Philippines History Philippine American War, 1899-1902 Samoa History Naval officers mm 70050112 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011194.3 Open to research. DLC 730514 20260227111613.0 mm 70050112