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BOX 3-4 Letterbooks, Letterpress Books, and Letter Index Books, 1864-1880
Copies of correspondence and reports sent by Shufeldt as commander of various ships.
A few of the volumes are indexed.
BOX 3 Letterbook
BOX 3 Proteus, 1864-1865
BOX 3 Wachusett, 1866-1868
BOX 3 Letter index book, Minantonomoh, 1869-1870
BOX 3 Letterbook
BOX 3 Kansas, 1870, Oct. -Nov. and Mayflower, 1870, Nov.-1871, Mar.
BOX 3 Mayflower, 1871, Mar.-Aug.
BOX 3 Letter index book, Ticonderoga, 1878, Dec.-1880, Nov.
BOX 4 Letterpress book, Ticonderoga
BOX 4 1878, Dec.-1880, Nov.
BOX 4 1878, Dec.-1880, Nov.
BOX 4 1879, Jan.-July
BOX 5-10 Official Correspondence, 1839-1889
Letters received and a few drafts of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically. Correspondence concerning Shufeldt’s years in Cuba, the Tehuantepec Survey Expedition, and the world cruise in the Ticonderoga is in the Subject File.
BOX 5 1839-1862
BOX 6 1863-1865
BOX 7 1866
BOX 8 1867
BOX 9 1868-1872
BOX 10 1873-1889
BOX 11-17 General Correspondence, 1838-1900
Letters received and a few drafts of letters sent, mostly of a personal and family nature, but some material relating to Shufeldt’s activities in Cuba, Mexico, and elsewhere.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 11 1838-1861
BOX 12 1862-1867
BOX 13 1868-1870
BOX 14 1870-1871
BOX 15 1872-1875
BOX 16 1876-1884
BOX 17 1887-1900, undated
BOX 18-29 Subject File, 1861-1883
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, manuscripts, maps, printed matter, newspaper clippings, drafts of writings, bills and receipts, and miscellaneous items pertaining to Cuba, the Tehuantepec Survey Expedition, and the Ticonderoga world cruise.
Material concerning Cuba and Tehuantepec Survey Expedition is chronologically arranged and files concerning the Ticonderoga are arranged according to the area covered by the cruise.
BOX 18 Cuba, 1861-1863, undated
BOX 18 Correspondence
BOX 18 1861, May-1862, Jan.
BOX 19 1862, Feb.-1863, Apr., undated
BOX 19 Bills, receipts, and inventories
BOX 19 Miscellany
BOX 20 Tehuantepec Survey Expedition, Mexico, 1861-1873
BOX 20 Correspondence
BOX 21 Bills, receipts, and inventories
BOX 21 Maps
BOX 21 Miscellany
BOX 21 Newspaper clippings
BOX 21 Printed matter
BOX 22 World cruise, Ticonderoga, 1879-1883, undated
BOX 22 West Africa
BOX 22 Angola
BOX 22 South Africa
BOX 22 Congo
BOX 22 Dahomey
BOX 22 Sierra Leone
BOX 22 Zanzibar
BOX 22 Johanna
BOX 22 Madagascar
BOX 22 Aden
BOX 22 India
BOX 22 Singapore
BOX 22 Japan
BOX 23 Liberia
BOX 24 China
BOX 24 Korea
BOX 25 General correspondence
BOX 25 Maps
BOX 25 Oriental documents
BOX 25 Miscellany
BOX 26 Unpublished manuscript
BOX 26 Chapters 1-14
BOX 27 Chapters 15-19
BOX 27 Collected material for the manuscript
BOX 27 Liberia
BOX 27 South Africa
BOX 27 Middle East
BOX 27 India
BOX 28 Singapore
BOX 28 Philippine Islands
BOX 28 Japan
BOX 28 China
BOX 28 Korea
BOX 29 Miscellany
BOX 30-31 Newspaper Clippings, 1859-1899
Clippings chiefly concerned with naval incidents.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
BOX 30 China
BOX 30 Gherardi, Bancroft-Walker, John, controversy
BOX 30 Japan
BOX 30 Interocean canal
BOX 30 Korea
BOX 31 Liberia
BOX 31 Miscellany
BOX 31 St. Helena
BOX 31 Sierra Leone
BOX 31 U.S. Navy
BOX 31 Quaker City
BOX 31 Ticonderoga
BOX 32-33 Printed Matter, 1849-1910
Aticles, pamphlets, speeches, general orders, and other writings.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 32 1849-1910, undated
BOX 33 Minantonomoh, 1869-1870
BOX 34-35 Miscellany, 1836-1893
An account book, calling cards and invitations, notes and fragments, inventories, quartermaster reports, ship descriptions, officer register, ship specifications and blueprints, admiralty board arguments, bills, receipts, inventories, copies of treaties, certificates and awards, poetry, songs, and essays.
Arranged by topic.
BOX 34 Account book, 1876-1877
BOX 34 Calling cards and invitations, 1870-1882, undated
BOX 34 Notes and fragments, mostly undated
BOX 34 Poetry notes and fragments, mostly undated
BOX 34 Inventories, quartermaster reports, and ship descriptions, 1863-1870, undated
BOX 34 Officer registers and related material, 1864-1870, undated
BOX 34 Ship specifications and blueprints, including material by and about John Ericsson, 1864-1881, undated
BOX 34 Admiralty board arguments, undated
BOX 35 Bills, receipts, and inventories, 1862-1893, undated
BOX 35 Copies and treaties between the United States and foreign countries, 1836-1880
BOX 35 Certificates, awards, and passports, 1853-1861
BOX 35 Poems, songs, and essays written aboard Proteus and Hartford , 1864-1868
BOX 36-37 Mason A. Shufeldt File, 1883-1893
Correspondence, reports, writings, and miscellaneous material. This file is mostly concerned with Mason A. Shufeldt’s explorations of Africa.
Arranged by topic and therein chronologically.
BOX 36 General correspondence
BOX 36 Madagascar expedition
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