Correspondence of Charles Napier Robinson, 1890 to 1930. Including letters from Mahon, Bridge Altham and Laughton. Also Home Fleets Assembly Orders, 1916, and a permit for Robinson to view the German submarine UC5 at Sheerness.

Administrative / biographical background
Robinson was born at St Lawrence, Thanet, in 1849. His father Alexander Robinson was a paymaster in the Royal Navy and secretary to Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Fleet at the time of the Crimean War. During his own naval career he was involved in anti-slavery patrols off the coast of east Africa, the suppression of piracy in the Straits of Malacca, and the erection of a monument to Captain Cook at Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii. Robinson retired from the service in 1882 and then worked as a naval correspondent for various newspapers and journals including 'Navy and Army Illustrated', 'New York Herald' and 'The Times'. He was a founder member of both the Navy Records Society and Society for Nautical Research, and served as Vice-President of the latter. In 1932 the Duke of Connaught presented Robinson with the Chesney Gold Medal of the Royal United Service Institution for his services to naval literature.