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245 0 0 _aCosby family papers,
_f1834-1917.
300 _a7
_fitems.
300 _a1
_fcontainer.
300 _a0.4
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aJournals kept by Frank C. Cosby as captain's clerk on a voyage (1 volume, 1857-1858) patrolling African waters to intercept slave ships and on a Mediterranean voyage (2 volumes, 1860-1861) during which he recorded the resignation of several officers upon receiving word of South Carolina's secession and the start of the Civil War in the United States.
520 8 _aTwo notebooks (1917 April 14-May 14) kept by Spencer Cosby, American military attaché to the French military delegation to the United States during World War I, recording his impressions while accompanying Marshal Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre on a trip by train from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, Ill. Also includes a scrapbook presented by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company containing newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera relating to the journey.
520 8 _aJournal (1831-1834) kept by William Clayton Spencer while in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, containing primarily poetry, but with some descriptions and sketches of life there.
545 0 _aFamily members represented in the collection include Frank C. Cosby, U.S. naval officer; his son, Spencer Cosby, U.S. Army officer; and Frank C. Cosby's father-in-law, William Clayton Spencer, newspaper editor from Centreville, Md.
546 _aCollection material in English.
600 1 0 _aJoffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire,
_d1852-1931.
600 3 0 _aCosby family.
610 2 0 _aBaltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xOfficers.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy
_xOfficers.
650 0 _aMilitary attachés
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMilitary missions
_zFrance.
650 0 _aNewspaper editors
_zMaryland
_zCentreville.
650 0 _aRailroad travel.
650 0 _aSecession
_zSouth Carolina.
650 0 _aSlave trade
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aChicago (Ill.)
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aMediterranean Sea
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aRio de Janeiro (Brazil)
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aWashington (D.C.)
_xDescription and travel.
700 1 _aCosby, Frank C.
_q(Frank Cervill),
_d1840-1905.
_tFrank C. Cosby papers.
700 1 _aCosby, Spencer.
_tSpencer Cosby papers.
700 1 _aSpencer, William Clayton.
_tWilliam Clayton Spencer papers.
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