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 Author:  Bancker, James A.Requires cookie*
 Title:  James A. Bancker papers, 1842-1849     
 Dates:  1842-1849 
 Abstract:  As a merchant in the China trade, Bancker was witness to the early efforts of the United States Navy to project its power into east Asia, especially in Macao, Canton, and Hong Kong.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.B22 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Americans -- China -- Social life and customs. | Americans Abroad | Bancker, James A. | Beyond Early America | British -- China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | China -- Foreign relations -- 1644-1912. | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia. | Hong Kong (China) -- Colonization. | International Trade. | International Travel | Marriage and Family Life | Merchants - United States | Philippines -- Description and travel. | Trade | Travel | Voyages and travels. 
 Author:  Bohlen, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  John Bohlen Collection     
 Dates:  1889-1912 
 Abstract:  The Bohlen Collection contains one item which may be of interest to naval historians: Perry, Oliver Hazard. Letter to Daniel Murray. 1818 March 1. "In reply to your inquiry respecting the affair which has...lately made so much noise, and which has brought upon me such a torrent of abuse and malignant calumny -- I shall only briefly state that [the circumstances as related] are all false with the exception of my having given personal chastisement to an impertinent and insolent fellow, -- who is destitute of truth and spirit -- and who has been base enough to circulate the most unfounded slander, and then deny it under his own hand." 1 item.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.B63 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Bank of the United States | Bohlen, John | Business and Skilled Trades | Dorsey, Elizabeth | General Correspondence | International Trade. | Murray, Daniel | Philadelphia History | Religion | Trade 
 Author:  Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875Requires cookie*
 Title:  John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884     
 Dates:  1783-1884 
 Abstract:  The Gray Papers contain at least one item which may be of interest to naval historians: Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Letter to John Gray. 1853 September 29. Sends chart of the North Atlantic. 2 pages.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.G784 
 Extent:  5 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900 | Andrews, William (1802-1880) | Assyria -- Antiquities. | Autographs. | Balard, Antoine-Jérôme (1802-1876 ) | Bate, C. Spence (Charles Spence), 1818-1889 | Berkeley, M. J. (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889 | Beyond Early America | Blainville, H.-M. Ducrotay de (Henri-Marie Ducrotay) | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | Bonomi, Joseph | British Museum (Natural History) -- Natural history collections. | Brookes, Joshua, -- 1754-1821. | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Duméril, C. (Constant), 1774-1860 | Florida -- Discovery and exploration. | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Geological Society of London | Geology. | Gray, John Edward | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Hoeven, Jan van der | Lefèvre, Jean-Jacques, 1779-1858 | Mollusks. | Müller, Joh., 1801-1858 | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- England. | Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States. | Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Antiquities. | Pfeiffer, Ludwig Georg Karl | Schomburgk, Robert H., Sir (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865 | Shells. | Société des sciences naturelle de France. | Steenstrup, J. Japetus Sm. -- (Joha | Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865 
 Author:  Audubon, John James, 1785-1851Requires cookie*
 Title:  John James Audubon Papers     
 Dates:  1821-1845 
 Abstract:  The Audubon Papers contain at least one item which may be of interest to naval historians: Audubon, John James. Letter to Victor G. Audubon. 1842 July 17. Reports on travel in the United States. News of Washington. Saw Wilkes sketches, etc. 3 pages.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.Au25 
 Extent:  0.75 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Abert, John James, 1788-1863 | Art | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812- | Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell (1788-1874) | Audubon, Victor Gifford (1809-1860) | Bachman, John (1790-1874) | Bakewell, William | Berthoud, Nicholas | Birds -- North America | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian Jule | Brewster, Thomas | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chetwynd, Henry John, Earl of | Children, John George, 1777-18 | Cooper, William | Family Correspondence | Gaston, William | General Correspondence | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Harris, Edward | Havell, Robert, Jr. 1793-1878 | Lehman, George | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lizars, W. H. (William Home), | Martin, Maria, 1794-1863 | McCulloch, Thomas, Jr. | McMurtry, Henry | Natural history | Natural history -- North America | Naturalist | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Ornithologist | Ornithology -- North America | Printing and Publishing | Rathbone, William | Rothschild, Baron Nathan Mayer | Science and technology | Waller, J. Walthen | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813 
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 Title:  John Torrey papers, 1819-1864     
 Dates:  1819-1864 
 Abstract:  The Torrey Papers contain at least two items which may be of interest to naval historians:

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 Call #:  Mss.B.T63.1 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Botany. | Buckley, S. B., (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884 | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Delavan, Edward C., (Edward Cornelius), 1793-1871 | Durand, Elie M. | Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842 | Geology -- New York (State) -- Surveys. | Insects. | Mineralogy. | Natural history | Natural history. | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Temperance. | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 
 Author:  Vaughan, John, 1756-1841Requires cookie*
 Title:  John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936     
 Dates:  1768 - Circa 1936 
 Abstract:  There is at least one item in the Vaughan Papers which may be of interest to naval historians: Biddle, James. Letter to John Vaughan. 1826 May 11. Naval appointments. 3 pages.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.V462 
 Extent:  5 Linear Feet 
 Subjects:  Commonplace books. | Diaries. | Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 | Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 | Family Correspondence | Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 | General Correspondence | Hollinshead, Benjamin M | Institutional Records | Madeira family. | Medicine. | Natural history | Norris, William, 1802-1867 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Planetariums. | Political Correspondence | Sampson (Ship) | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Snider, Jacob | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Mauric | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Verses. | Williams, Jonathan