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    <title>Browning family papers, 1824-1917 (bulk 1835-1855)</title>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, biographical file, genealogical and other notes, newspaper clippings, and printed material of the Browning family.  The journal includes material relating to voyages of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the U.S.S. Ohio, and the U.S.S. Congress, notes on the South Sea islands, descriptions of Mediterranean and South American countries, watercolors of Turks, obituaries of naval officers, observations on the U.S. Navy, and diagrams and studies of Napoleon's campaigns, the bombardment of Odesa (1854), and the attack on San Juan de Ulúa Island, Mexico (1838).  Correspondents of Robert L. Browning, Sr., include Richard Bache, Caleb Cushing, Samuel F. Du Pont, William Sinclair, and Thomas D. Sumpter.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Browning family members including Robert Lewright Browning (1803-1850), naval officer, his wife Eleanor Hanlon Browning, and their sons, Robert Lewright Browning (1835-1860), marine officer, and Charles Henry Browning (1846-1926), genealogist.</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.ms009325">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009325</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.</note>
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      <namePart>Bache, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1850</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cushing, Caleb</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Du Pont, Samuel Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1865</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">I, Emperor of the French</namePart>
      <namePart>Napoleon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1769-1821</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, William A. (William Albert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1858</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sumpter, Thomas D</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Browning family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Congress (Frigate: 1841-1862)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Ohio (Ship of the line)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Vincennes (Sloop of war)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Crimean War, 1853-1856</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ship's papers</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mediterranean Region</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Oceania</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Odesa (Ukraine)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Bombardment, 1854</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>San Juan de Ulúa Island (Mexico)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Bombardment, 1838</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South America</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Armed Forces</topic>
    <topic>Officers</topic>
    <topic>Obituaries</topic>
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    <occupation>Genealogists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Marine Corps officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Naval officers</occupation>
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      <title>Charles Henry Browning papers</title>
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      <namePart>Browning, Charles Henry.</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Eleanor Hanlon Browning papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Browning, Eleanor Hanlon,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1857</namePart>
    </name>
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      <title>Robert Lewright Browning papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Browning, Robert Lewright,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1850</namePart>
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      <title>Robert Lewright Browning papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Browning, Robert Lewright,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1860</namePart>
    </name>
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