Scope and Content Note
The papers of Montgomery Meigs Taylor (1869-1952) span the years 1890-1935, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1931-1935. The collection consists of orders to duty, correspondence, articles, notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The orders to duty are a complete calendar of Taylor’s career from his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1890 to his retirement in 1933. Much of the collection relates to Taylor’s role as the commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet, 1931-1933, and concerns the Japanese expansion into China and invasion of Shanghai in 1932. The collection is organized by type of material.
Prominent Taylor’s correspondents are his brother, John R. M. Taylor, Charles Francis Adams, Ewing E. Booth, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Nelson T. Johnson, Frank Ross McCoy, William Veazie Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Harrison Standley.