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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm70050070
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Dudley Wright Knox, naval officer and historian, were deposited in the Library of Congress by the Naval Historical Foundation in 1953 and 1981 and converted to gift in 1998.
The papers of Dudley Wright Knox were arranged and described in 1967. The collection was expanded and revised in 1998 and the finding aid revised in 2009.
In 1971, the Library published an earlier edition of the Knox finding aid in a publication entitled
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Dudley Wright Knox is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Dudley Wright Knox are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Dudley Wright Knox Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Dudley Wright Knox (1877-1960) span the period 1864-1950, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the years 1921-1946. The papers consist of seven series: Correspondence, Subject File, Speech, Article, and Book File, Printed Matter, Newspaper Clippings, Miscellany, and an Addition.
Much of the Correspondence series concerns Knox's duties and interests as director of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1921-1946, and as secretary of the Naval Historical Foundation, 1926-1946. Knox held firm views on such subjects as international naval limitation conferences, naval aviation, the revival of a strong merchant marine, naval preparedness, Far Eastern affairs, foreign trade, and national defense. These views are reflected in his correspondence, speeches, articles, and other papers.
The collection is rich in material regarding naval limitations conferences, including the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament, 1921-1922, the Geneva Conference for the Limitation of Naval Armament, 1927, and the London Naval Conference of 1930. Admiral Hilary P. Jones, the American adviser to the conferences, wrote often to Knox concerning these meetings.
The papers also contain considerable material relating to Knox's published and unpublished books. Included are typescripts of his best known work,
Knox wrote the text for William H. Meyers's
Knox expanded the holdings of the Naval Library and carried on the normal functions of the Naval Records Section despite the time devoted not only to his own speaking and writing but also to assisting others in similar activities, represented by copies of many of the speeches and articles Knox prepared for fellow naval officers. He had a lengthy correspondence with Thomas Goddard Frothingham, who sent him a draft of each chapter of his three-volume study
Correspondents in the Knox Papers include J. H. Adams, John V. Babcock, Earle Henry Balch, Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, James Phinney Baxter, Charles Bittinger, Wilson Brown, Howard G. Brownson, Willard H. Brownson, Raymond Leslie Buell, Charles Perry Burt, Kenneth G. Castleman, Bennett Cerf, William Bell Clark, Wat Tyler Cluverius, George P. Colvocoresses, Albert Lyman Cox, Leonard M. Cox, Thomas T. Craven, Josephus Daniels, Ralph E. Davis, Howard A. DeWeerd, Philip R. Dillon, Ralph Earle, Edwin A. Falke, Guy Stanton Ford, George Edmund Foss, Julius Augustus Furer, William Howard Gardiner, Charles E. Gilpin, Harpur Allen Gosnell, Edwin Grabhorn, Fitzhugh Green, Kent Roberts Greenfield, F. Griffith, John George Hartwig, Jan Hasbrouck, N. A. Helmer, Roy Hoffman, James J. Hogan, Franklin Henry Hooper, Alfred G. Howe, Hiram Johnson, Ira Rich Kent, John Crawford Knox, Warren B. Koehler, William Chauncey Langdon, Robert J. S. LaPorte, Henry Cabot Lodge, Stanford E. Moses, Orson D. Mumm, R. E. Pope, Charles N. Robinson, William Sowden Sims, Edward E. Spafford, J. D. Springer, Harold R. Stark, and Lewis L. Strauss.
The Addition to the collection consists of photocopies of memoranda, correspondence, and other documents from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York, concerning efforts by Knox and Roosevelt to publish naval records relating to American wars.
This collection is arranged in seven series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm70050070
Letters received and a few copies of letters sent, supplemented by memoranda, reports, and printed matter. Container 9 exclusively contains Knox's correspondence with Thomas Goddard Frothingham.
Arranged chronologically.
Blueprints, clippings, memoranda, research notes, press releases, printed and near-print matter, and reports.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Handwritten, typewritten, near-print, and printed copies of speeches, articles, books, book reviews, and press releases.
Organized by type of writing. Titled speeches and articles are arranged alphabetically and listed individually under folder titles; untitled speeches and articles are arranged chronologically.
Chiefly copies of articles, speeches, and writings on naval topics.
Arranged chronologically.
Clippings on naval topics.
Arranged chronologically.
A manuscript concerning the
Arranged chronologically.
Photocopies of memoranda, correspondence, and other documents from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library relating to efforts by Knox and Roosevelt to publish naval records of American wars.
Arranged chronologically.