Montgomery Meigs Taylor papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1200
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet; United States; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, journal, notebook, orders to duty, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primaraily to Taylor's naval career.  Documents Taylor's service as commander in chief of the U.S. Navy Asiatic Fleet, the Japanese expansion into China and the invasion of Shanghai in 1932, and life in East Asia.  Correspondents include  Charles Francis Adams, Ewing E. Booth, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Nelson T. Johnson, Frank Ross McCoy, William Veazie Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Harrison Standley, and Taylor's brother John R.M. Taylor.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1953.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer and commander-in-chief, Asiatic Fleet.

Collection material in English.

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

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.