George E. Belknap papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1400
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet; Oceanography; Genealogy; Social policy; United States; Sea stories; Foreign service; Economic policy; Hydrography; Naval operations; United States. Navy; History
Description: Correspondence, articles, memoranda, and other papers relating to Belknap's naval career including his duty in the barrier forts at Canton (Guangzhou.), China, in the 1850s; combat duty in the Civil War; a tour of duty in Hawaii; and his command of the Asiatic Fleet.  Subjects include hydrography; oceanography; old sea stories; social, economic, and political questions; and Belknap family affairs and genealogy.  Correspondents include Daniel Ammen, John M. Brooke, Caspar F. Goodrich, Samuel W. Lowell, Francis Asbury Roe, George Collier Remey, and John A. Riddle.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1959.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010050

Register published by the Library of Congress, 1969.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.