Dudley Wright Knox papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 6550
Subjects: Correspondence; Naval Historical Foundation; History; Military readiness; International trade; United States. Office of Naval Records and Library; Aviation; Disarmament; Merchant marine; United States; Sea-power; Naval history; Naval libraries; Naval History; Congresses; Naval aviation; United States. Navy; Foreign relations; Societies
Description: Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, book file, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Knox's activities as director of the U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library (1921-1946), as secretary of the Naval Historical Foundation (1926-1946), and as an author of books and articles on naval affairs.  The papers document Knox's views on international naval limitation conferences, naval aviation, the revival of a strong merchant marine, naval readiness, relations with East Asia, foreign trade, and national defense.  Includes typescripts and letters, reviews, and clippings relating to Knox's book, A History of the United States Navy (1936).  Also includes photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to efforts by Knox and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to publish naval records concerning American wars.

Chief correspondent is Thomas Goddard Frothingham.  Other correspondents include J. H. Adams, John V. Babcock, Earle Henry Balch, Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, James Phinney Baxter, Charles Bittinger, Wilson Brown, Howard G. Brownson, Willard H. Brownson, Raymond Leslie Buell, Charles Perry Burt, Kenneth G. Castleman, Bennett Cerf, William Bell Clark, Wat Tyler Cluverius, George P. Colvocoresses, Albert Lyman Cox, Leonard M. Cox, Thomas T. Craven, Josephus Daniels, Ralph E. Davis, Harvey A. DeWeerd, Philip Robert Dillon, Ralph Earle, Edwin A. Falk, Guy Stanton Ford, George Edmund Foss, Julius Augustus Furer, William Howard Gardiner, Charles E. Gilpin, Harpur Allen Gosnell, Edwin E. Grabhorn, Fitzhugh Green, Kent Roberts Greenfield, F. Griffith, John George Hartwig, Jan Hasbrouck, N. A. Helmer, Roy Hoffman, James J. Hogan, Franklin Henry Hooper, Alfred G. Howe, Hiram Johnson, Ira Rich Kent, John Knox, Warren B. Koehler, William Chauncey Langdon, Robert J. LaPorte, Henry Cabot Lodge, Stanford E. Moses, Orson D. Mumm, R. E. Pope, Charles N. Robinson, William Sowden Simms, Edward E. Spafford, J. D. Springer, Harold R. Stark, and Lewis L. Strauss.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1953-1981.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer and historian.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009197

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.