Thomas Oliver Selfridge papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 750
Subjects: Correspondence; Mississippi (Side-wheel steamer); Officers; Navy-yards and naval stations; United States; Mare Island Naval Shipyard; United States. Naval Examining Board (Line); United States. Navy
Description: Correspondence, journals, logbooks, notebooks, and other papers relating to Selfridge's naval career.  Includes material relating to his service as commander of the USS Mississippi and of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Calif., and as president of the U.S. Naval Examining Board (Line).  Correspondents include his son, T.O. Selfridge, Henry E. Ballard, George E. Belknap, A.F. Crossman, Francis E. Grice, and David D. Porter.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1949.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012018

Register published by the Library of Congress, 1969.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.