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Andrew H. Foote papers, 1822-1890

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BOX 1-3 REEL 1-2 Correspondence, 1838-1863
Letters received and copies of letters sent with enclosures or attachments, and a few miscellaneous papers.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1 REEL 1 1838, Apr. 18-1850, Oct. 19
BOX 2 REEL 1 1850, Oct. 20-1856, Dec. 10
BOX 3 REEL 2 1856, Dec. 12-1863, June 8
BOX 4-5 REEL 2-3 Writings, 1854
Manuscript of Africa and the American Flag.
BOX 4-5 REEL 2-3 Africa and the American Flag, 1854
BOX 6-11 REEL 3 Letterbooks, 1839-1858
Copies of letters received and sent.
Arranged chronologically. Volume 6 is primarily a journal. Volume 8 is indexed.
BOX 6 REEL 3 1839, Nov. 5-1842, Jan. 1 (mainly a journal)
BOX 7 REEL 3 1842, Nov. 30-1846, Oct. 20
BOX 8 REEL 3 1849, Oct. 12-1852, May 9 (indexed)
BOX 9 REEL 3 1850, Jan. 7-Nov. 29
BOX 10 REEL 3 1850, Oct. 20-1851, Dec. 26
BOX 11 REEL 3 1856, Feb. 16-1858, July 24
BOX 12-23 REEL 3-5 Ships' Papers, 1835-1860
Journals, logbooks, watch and quarter station books, a book of rules, and a table of weather observations.
Arranged by name of ship or type of material.
BOX 12 REEL 3 Watch and quarter station books
Delaware (ship-of-the-line), 1835
BOX 13 REEL 4 Cumberland (frigate), 1843-1845
BOX 14 REEL 4 Perry (brig)
Private journal, including drafts of papers from voyage of the Portsmouth (sloop-of-war), 1856
BOX 15 REEL 4 Journal and logbooks
1849, Nov. 17-1850, Nov. 7
BOX 16 REEL 4 1850, Nov. 8-1851, Sept. 14
BOX 17 REEL 4 1851, Sept. 15-Dec. 23
BOX 18 REEL 4 Portsmouth (sloop-of-war)
Orders and watch station book, 1856
BOX 19 REEL 4 Journal and logbook, 1856, Apr. 22-1858, June 17
BOX 20 REEL 5 Abstract log, 1856, May 4-1858, June 13
BOX 21 REEL 5 Rules on board John Adams (frigate), Thomas W. Wyman, commander, 1837
BOX 22 REEL 5 Journal of Madison Rush, Columbus (ship-of-the-line), 1845-1847
BOX 23 REEL 5 Observations of wind and weather, Vandalia (frigate), 1857-1860
BOX 24-25 REEL 5 Miscellany, 1822-1890
A ledger and an autograph album.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 24 REEL 5 Ledger, 1822-1828
BOX 25 REEL 5 Autograph album of Augustus Foote, 1863-1890
BOX OV 1not filmed Oversize, 1862
Foote's commission as chief of the U.N. Navy Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.
BOX OV 1not filmed Commission signed by Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles appointing Foote chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1862

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