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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 Edward Everett Hayden, naval officer and scientist, and his family were given to the Library of Congress by Mary Bainbridge Hayden in 1979.
The collection was processed in 1992 by Karen Linn Femia with the assistance of Catherine Wilkins-Susynski. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Some maps have been transferred to the Geography and Map Division. Some photographs and blueprints have been transferred to Prints and Photographs Division. All transfers are identified as part of the Edward Everett Hayden Family Papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Mary Bainbridge Hayden in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public. The status of copyright in other unpublished writings in the papers of Edward Everett Hayden is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of the Edward Everett Hayden Family 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, Edward Everett Hayden Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Edward Everett Hayden (1858-1932) and his family span the years 1817-1963 with the bulk of the material dating from 1879 to 1932. Most of the items in the collection comprise the papers of Edward Everett Hayden, a rear admiral in the United States Navy. The papers are organized into the following series: Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks; Family Papers; Navy Files; General Correspondence; Writings; Subject File; and Oversize.
Hayden's navy files are wide-ranging, but they focus on his scientific work for the navy and his command of the United States Naval Station in Key West, Florida, from 1910 to 1915. There is, in addition, a wealth of other Hayden family material documenting military family life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; approximately one-third of the collection is family correspondence. Hayden's wife, Kate Reynolds, came from a military family; the Hayden's eldest son served many years as a medical officer in the navy; their second son graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the army until 1920; and the youngest son attended military schools and served in the army during World War I. The oldest items in the collection are the papers of Hayden's grandfather, William Hayden, a Massachusetts Whig and postmaster of Boston. Prominent correspondents of William Hayden include Daniel Webster, Jacob Collamer, and John Davis. The most recent material relates to Mary Bainbridge Hayden, the admiral's youngest child, who donated the collection to the library.
Edward Everett Hayden was born in Boston and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1879. He lost his leg in a climbing accident while on duty with the United States Geological Survey and subsequently was forced to retire in 1885. Through a special act of Congress, Hayden was restored to active duty in 1901, but was restricted to shore duty. During most of the intervening years, he worked for the navy as a civilian.
Hayden worked for the navy primarily as a scientist. In addition to his official duties, he published articles on timekeeping, hydrography, and meteorology, especially relating to hurricanes. The Navy Files series in the collection includes Hayden's correspondence with the navy and war departments as well as office correspondence and miscellaneous items from each of his duty stations. A large number of official papers, photographs, and various documents preserved in the Navy Files relate to Hayden's work in charge of time service and chronometers at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., from 1902 to 1910 and his service as commandant of the Key West naval station from 1910 to 1915.
Many of Hayden's activities outside the navy are represented in the Subject File series. Material concerning his professional interest in meteorology, hydrography, and timekeeping is located here, as are the papers on his various inventions, patents, and personal business matters. Papers from his three-year position as secretary of the National Geographic Society are also in the Subject File.
The Family Papers series is organized by name of family member. Within each person's file, the family correspondence contains letters and cables written by that family member or spouse to other relatives. In some cases, the files also contain incoming letters. Following the family correspondence of each person are the general correspondence, financial material, photographs, school papers, and writings of that person. Excepted from this organization are the files of Edward Everett Hayden, whose personal nonfamily papers comprise the rest of the collection. Listed alphabetically below are short descriptions of family members represented in the collection and the types of materials relating to them.
The collection is arranged in seven series:
Diaries, journals, and notebooks of Edward Everett Hayden, including miscellaneous daily jottings.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, financial material, photographs, school papers, and miscellany. Files relating to Edward Everett Hayden are limited to family and family-related correspondence and photographic portraits. Miscellaneous family papers include genealogical data, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Grouped according to individual family member and alphabetically by topic or type of material therein.
Correspondence, notebooks, photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous topical material pertaining to Edward Everett Hayden's naval career.
Arranged alphabetically by topic, type of material, or duty station.
Letters received by Edward Everett Hayden from friends, professional associates, and commercial concerns, and some copies of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically.
Poetry, publications, speeches, and unpublished manuscripts by Edward Everett Hayden.
Arranged alphabetically by title within each category. Correspondence with publishers and editors is included.
Correspondence, patent certificates, real estate and legal documents, financial records, scientific writings, and ephemera collected by Edward Everett Hayden.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
Oversize material organized and described according to the series, folders, and boxes from which the items were removed.