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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 Stephen Bleecker Luce, naval officer, were deposited in the Library of Congress by the Naval Historical Foundation in 1950 and converted to a gift in 1998.
The papers of Stephen Bleecker Luce were processed in 1968. The finding aid was revised in 2011. In 1984, the Luce Papers were prepared for microfilming and the register was amended. This revised register is included on the first reel of a microfilm edition of the collection.
In 1969, the Library published
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Stephen Bleecker Luce is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Stephen Bleecker Luce 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.
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on nineteen reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Stephen Bleecker Luce Papers, Naval Historical Foundation Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Stephen Bleecker Luce (1827-1917) span the period 1799-1955, with the bulk of the material dating from 1842 to 1912. The collection consists of journals, correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, writings, photographs, printed matter, and other papers and is organized into five series: Journals and Orders, General Correspondence, Letterbooks, Subject File, and Miscellany .
The Luce Papers document a naval career beginning with service as a midshipman at fourteen in 1841 and ending with special duty at the United States Naval War College as a retired rear admiral in 1910. There is material on naval tactics, strategy, and training, the establishment of the naval war college over professional and civilian opposition, the creation of a nautical school for boys, and the Naval Historical Society.
Also documented is Luce’s Civil War service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron from 1863 to1865. There is material concerning his service as commissioner general of the Exposición Histórico (Columbian Historical Exposition) in Madrid, 1892-1893; his role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries dispute, 1887; the seizure of the American steamer
Among the correspondents in the collection are Nelson W. Aldrich, Philip R. Alger, William Bainbridge-Hoff, George E. Belknap, Charles J. Bonaparte, Charles A. Boutelle, William E. Chandler, George Dewey, Earl English, William Mayhew Folger, Albert Gleaves, Caspar F. Goodrich, Albert Bushnell Hart, Israel C. Jones, Henry Cabot Lodge, A. T. Mahan, John Bassett Moore, Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Snowden Sims, E. A. Sophocles, John Austin Stevens (1827-1910), John Crittenden Watson, and William C. Whitney.
This collection is arranged in five series:
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 19,003
Manuscript volumes and loose leaves of mainly handwritten and printed copies of orders sent and received.
Arranged by type of volume and therein chronologically.
Letters sent and received.
Chronologically arranged.
Manuscript volumes and loose leaves of letters sent.
Chronologically arranged.
Memoranda, reports, summaries, lectures, addresses, notes, drafts, articles, photographs, sketches, pamphlets, and clippings.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Scrapbooks and notebooks, newspaper clippings and pamphlets, and an incomplete card index to the collection.
Organized by type of material.