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Scope and Content Note
The papers of Ninian Pinkney (1811-1877) span the years 1822 to 1913, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1840-1870. The papers consist of a letterbook, correspondence, speeches and articles, medical papers, clippings, and miscellany.
Subjects in the collection include Pinkney's tours of naval duty, his surgical cases in Peru, his observations on the Mexican War and Civil War, efforts to obtain seniority status in the navy, plan to reorganize the United States Navy Medical Corps, and his interest in politics. Correspondents include his wife, Mary H. Pinkney, and George Bancroft, Henry Clay, Samuel Hambleton, Matthew Calbraith Perry, and Gideon Welles.