Willard H. Brownson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: United States; United States. Navy; Officers; United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation
Description: Correspondence, letterpress books, diaries, cruise book, night order books, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Brownson's naval career.  Includes material on his official and personal dealings with President Theodore Roosevelt, Presley Marion Rixey, and Brownson's resignation from the U.S. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation over the Rixey Affair in 1907.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1977.

Converted to gift, 1998.

U.S. naval officer.

Collection material in English with French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.