Browning family papers
Contributors: Browning, Eleanor Hanlon, 1809-1857; Browning, Robert Lewright, 1803-1850; Browning, Robert Lewright, 1835-1860
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; History; Ohio (Ship of the line); Description and travel; Vincennes (Sloop of war); Congress (Frigate: 1841-1862); Officers; Campaigns; Obituaries; Ship's papers; Crimean War, 1853-1856; United States. Navy; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Armed Forces
Description: Correspondence, journals, biographical file, genealogical and other notes, newspaper clippings, and printed material of the Browning family.  The journal includes material relating to voyages of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the U.S.S. Ohio, and the U.S.S. Congress, notes on the South Sea islands, descriptions of Mediterranean and South American countries, watercolors of Turks, obituaries of naval officers, observations on the U.S. Navy, and diagrams and studies of Napoleon's campaigns, the bombardment of Odesa (1854), and the attack on San Juan de Ulúa Island, Mexico (1838).  Correspondents of Robert L. Browning, Sr., include Richard Bache, Caleb Cushing, Samuel F. Du Pont, William Sinclair, and Thomas D. Sumpter.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1964.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Browning family members including Robert Lewright Browning (1803-1850), naval officer, his wife Eleanor Hanlon Browning, and their sons, Robert Lewright Browning (1835-1860), marine officer, and Charles Henry Browning (1846-1926), genealogist.

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

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.