Stephen Bleecker Luce papers, 1799-1955 (bulk 1842-1912).
- 8,000 items. 23 containers. 19 microfilm reels. 9 linear feet.
- Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Journals and Orders, 1842-1900; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1799-1955; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1862-1878; Series 4: Subject File, 1839-1917; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1806-1917.
Open to research.
Correspondence, journals, order books, notebooks, subject files, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Luce's naval career. Documents his service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War and aboard the USS Columbus (Ship of the line) of the U.S. Navy East India Squadron. Also documents his role in establishing the Naval War College (U.S.) and the Naval Historical Society (U.S.), his diplomatic role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries dispute (1887), service as head of the commission representing the U.S. at the Exposición Histórico-Americana in Madrid, Spain (1892), and work as an author. Subjects include the the seizure of the American steamer Haytien Republic, USS Monitor (Ironclad), naval bases, dry docks, legislation, naval songs and poetry, ordnance and gunnery, and naval strategy, tactics, and training. Correspondents include Nelson W. Aldrich, Philip R. Alger, William Bainbridge-Hoff, George E. Belknap, Charles J. Bonaparte, Charles A. Boutelle, William E. Chandler, George Dewey, Earl English, William Mayhew Folger, Albert Gleaves, Caspar F. Goodrich, Albert Bushnell Hart, Israel C. Jones, Henry Cabot Lodge, A.T. Mahan, John Bassett Moore, Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Sowden Sims, E.A. Sophocles, John Austin Stevens, John Crittenden Watson, and William C. Whitney.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984.
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.ms012084
Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.
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Aldrich, Nelson W. 1841-1915 --Correspondence. Alger, Philip R. 1859-1912 --Correspondence. Bainbridge-Hoff, William, -1903 --Correspondence. Belknap, George E. 1832-1903 --Correspondence. Bonaparte, Charles J. 1851-1921 --Correspondence. Boutelle, Charles A. 1839-1901 --Correspondence. Chandler, William E. 1835-1917 --Correspondence. Dewey, George, 1837-1917 --Correspondence. English, Earl, 1824-1893 --Correspondence. Folger, William Mayhew, 1844-1928 --Correspondence. Gleaves, Albert, 1858-1937 --Correspondence. Goodrich, Caspar F. 1847-1925 --Correspondence. Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 --Correspondence. Jones, Israel C.--Correspondence. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 --Correspondence. Mahan, A. T. 1840-1914 --Correspondence. Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947 --Correspondence. Peary, Robert E. 1856-1920 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence. Sherman, John, 1823-1900 --Correspondence. Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 --Correspondence. Sophocles, E. A. 1807-1883 --Correspondence. Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910 --Correspondence. Watson, John Crittenden, 1842-1923 --Correspondence. Whitney, William C. 1841-1904 --Correspondence.
United States. Navy. United States. Navy. East India Squadron. United States. Navy. South Atlantic Blockading Squadron (1861-1865) Columbus (Ship of the line) Haytien Republic (Steamer) Monitor (Ironclad) Naval Historical Society (U.S.) Naval War College (U.S.)