Uncatalogued: Clowes, William Laird, Naval Historian, 1856-1905

Box 1: Volume and folder with various clippings and research notes (extracted from the volume): alphabetical index of naval officers' surnames. The index records in columns the ranks of commander, captain and admiral followed by the column 'died.' The preceeding three columns include their commission dates.

Box 2: correspondence divided alphabetically by surname.

Box 3: circa ninety letters written to Clowes between 1896 and 1904; volume: subject index arranged chronologically, separated by month and date, but not by year (several years may appear for a particular day within a month); volume of newspaper cuttings of his articles entitled 'The Navy and the Empire: 1. The Work of the Navy; 2. The Triumphs of the Navy; 3. The Luck of the Navy' and so on...

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Object Details

ID: MSS/93/001
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1890-1905
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 3 boxes
Parts: Manuscript