Salmon, Sir Nowell, Admiral of the Fleet, 1835-1912.

The collection is comprised of diaries from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Nowell Salmon and his wife Lady Emily Augusta Salmon, and three diaries from his sister-in-law Sophia Mary Saunders. There are also letters written and received by various members of the family between 1857 and 1961. Some logs kept by Salmon as a midshipman, 1847-1854, and letterbooks kept as commander-in-chief of the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa station, 1882-1885, can be found under the reference NAI/3/1-10 in the Naish family papers.