English, Published edition: Papers of Dudley Wright Knox, Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960.

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Physical Description
  • 6,550 items.
  • 24 containers.
  • 9 linear feet.
Language
  • English

Edition details

Title
  • Papers of Dudley Wright Knox, circa 1864-1950
Creator
  • Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960.
Other Creators
  • Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960. History of the United States Navy (1936)
Physical Description
  • 6,550 items.
  • 24 containers.
  • 9 linear feet.
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Summary
  • 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.
  • 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.
Biography
  • Naval officer and historian.
Notes
  • Deposit Naval Historical Foundation 1953-1981.
  • Converted to gift 1998.
  • Collection material in English.
  • Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.
Access Conditions
  • Open to research.
Language
  • English
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