Laughton, Leonard George Carr, Naval Historian, 1871-1955.

The collection mainly consists of notebooks, both in Laughton's hand and that of his father, relating to their research into various nautical subjects at the Public Record Office, British Museum, and other repositories. Among these are notes on Nelson, extracts from Pepys' diary, and notes for articles on HMS VICTORY (1765). There are also blueprints used in the restoration of the VICTORY; minutes from meetings of the Technical Committee, 1927-1928; and minutes of the Advisory Committee, 1929. There are a series of notes on lectures by Professor Laughton, including those given at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in the early 1900s. The collection contains a typed copy of Laughton's 'Nautical Dictionary'; a card index for Dictionary of National Biography entries; a number of albums containing newspaper cuttings; and various letters, including correspondence with Dr Roger C. Anderson, 1925-1937. Finally, there are some manuscripts written by others, including Harold H. Brindley, and a copy of a log kept by Dudley M. Stone on board the steel sailing ship MONKBARNS, during a voyage from Buenos Ayres to Sydney, 1913.