Scope and Content Note
The records of the Queenstown Association span the years 1913-1980, with the bulk of material dating from 1820 to 1960. They consist of correspondence, membership lists, minutes, pamphlets, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the activities of the association from its founding in 1920 by former United States naval officers who had been stationed at the British destroyer base at Queenstown, Ireland, during World War I to the organization's disbandment in 1961.
Much of the records consist of the files of Junius Spencer Morgan, a founder and secretary-treasurer of the organization. A correspondence file documents the association's activities, and membership lists appear occasionally among the correspondence. Of particular interest is a letter from Morgan dated 10 January 1934 that includes a typed transcript of diary kept by him as a lieutenant on board the ship O'Brien from 16 October 1916 and 16 February 1918. Correspondents include Lewis Bayly, Robert Bostwick Carney, Arthur S. Carpender, Arthur Philip Fairfield, Langhorne Gibson, William Frederick Halsey, Arthur J. Hepburn, Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, Samuel Eliot Morison, Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle, William Sowden Sims, and Joseph K. Taussig. Other material includes minutes and a program from the association's founding dinner, responses to a membership questionnaire in 1939, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and photographs.