Leonard F. Cushing papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3600
Subjects: Correspondence; Constitution (Frigate); Constellation (Frigate); Naval architecture; United States; Shipbuilding; Warships; United States. Navy
Description: Correspondence, blueprints, specifications, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the restoration of the USF Constitution and the USF Constellation.  Includes material concerning the histories of the two frigates and the controversy over the authenticity of the Constellation.  Correspondents include Robert H. Burgess, Garnett Laidlaw Eskew, Samuel N. Friedel, W.E. Howard, Jr., Fred C. Kilguss, Burton M. Parks, Leverett Saltonstall, Charles Scarlett, Jr., Russell M. Stephens, Donald Stewart, and J.R. Whittemore.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1963.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval architect.

Collection material in English.

Register published by the Library of Congress, 1969.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010006

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.