Richard Dale papers
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Continental Navy; Description and travel; Bon Homme Richard (Ship); Officers; President (Frigate); United States; Voyages and travels; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Naval History; Naval operations; Merchant ships; United States. Navy; History
Description: Correspondence, commissions, mathematics notebook, and journal/logbook (1787-1789) kept on a voyage aboard a merchant ship to Canton, China, and to New Guinea.  Includes letterbook (1801-1802) of Dale's outgoing correspondence while in command of the USS President (Frigate) in the Mediterranean during the Tripolitan War; and letterbook of incoming correspondence (1780-1845) to Dale, to his son-in-law, Rear Admiral George C. Read, and to several others.  Correspondents include William Bainbridge, John Paul Jones, John P. Kennedy, Robert Smith, and Benjamin Stoddert.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of journal/logbook available, no. 20,499.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1991.

Purchase, 1917.

Deposit, U.S. Naval History Division, 1976.

Naval officer; served with the British navy from 1776 to 1777 when he joined the Continental Navy, serving as first lieutenant to John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard.

Collection material in English.

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