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Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims collection of Sims and Hitchcock family papers (MSC-354)

Naval Historical Collection, U.S. Naval War College

686 Cushing Road
Newport, RI 02841-1207
Tel: 401-841-2435
email: nhc@usnwc.edu
Website: https://usnwcarchives.org/

Inventory

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1-2 Biographical information: Hitchcock family
1993 and undated
Box 1, Folder 3 Biographical information: Henry Hitchcock
1902 Mar 25
Box 1, Folder 4 Biographical information: Kittredge family
1957 and undated
Box 1, Folder 5 Biographical information: Anne H. Sims
undated
Box 1, Folder 6 Biographical information: William S. Sims
1936 and undated
Box 1, Folder 7 Biographical information: Sowden family of Port Hope, Canada
1977-1994
Box 1, Folder 8 Clippings: Ethan A. Hitchcock and family
1897, 1909
Box 1, Folder 9 Clippings: Reviews of Elting Morison's biography of Admiral Sims
1942
Box 1, Folder 10-11 Clippings: William S. Sims
1908-2003 and undated
Box 1, Folder 12 Clippings: William S. Sims (collected by himself)
undated
Box 1, Folder 13 Correspondence: Christmas cards
1918-1919 and undated
Box 1, Folder 14 Correspondence: Christmas cards from Admiral Jellicoe
1919, 1932
Box 1, Folder 15 Correspondence: Anne "Nan" Camacho
1957 May 22-Sep 23
Box 1, Folder 16 Correspondence: Envelopes from letters sent to Anne H. Sims from William S. Sims
Contents Note: It does not appear that the original contents of these envelopes are found within this collection.
1906-1935 and undated
Box 1, Folder 17-18 Correspondence: Ethan A. Hitchcock
Contents Note: Includes letters from James R. Garfield, John Hay, General Ethan A. Hitchcock, Herbert Hoover, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and William H. Taft.
1865 Apr 2-1907 Feb 2 and undated
Box 1, Folder 19 Correspondence: Hitchcock family
1797 Feb 1-1865 Mar 21
Box 1, Folder 20 Correspondence: Henry Hitchcock
1885 Dec 11-1900 Nov 8
Box 1, Folder 21 Correspondence: Margaret Dwight Collier Hitchcock
Contents Note: Includes letters from John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Sherman, William H. Taft
1867 May 6-1909 Apr 9
Box 1, Folder 22-25 Correspondence: Anne Sims Morison
1938-1946
Box 2, Folder 1 Correspondence: Elting E. Morison
1940 Jul 20-1945 Jan 8
Box 2, Folder 2-3 Correspondence: Sarah Hitchcock Shepley
1901 Mar 10-1909 Apr 18, 1940 Sep 16-1941 Mar 2, 1943 Nov 20
Box 2, Folder 4-7 Correspondence: Anne H. Sims
Contents Note: Includes letters received from Tracey B. Kittredge, Olave Baden Powell, Elihu Root, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, William S. Sims and family, William H. Taft. Also found are correspondence about Mrs. Sims' attendance at the christening and commissioning ceremon
circa 1905-1956 Dec 27 and undated
Box 2, Folder 8 Correspondence: Anne H. Sims and Winston Churchill
Contents Note: Comprised of letters addressing the return of Adm. Sims's binoculars to Mrs. Sims.
1941 Mar 31-1951 Feb
Box 2, Folder 9-10 Correspondence: William S. Sims
Contents Note: Includes letters received from his wife and children, Theodore Roosevelt, and William H. Taft. Letters sent to his family and other acquaintances are also included. Of particular interest is a letter written by Sims in mirrored handwriting.
1901 Jul 22-1934 Sep 4 and undated
Box 2, Folder 11-14 Correspondence: William S. Sims, Jr.
Contents Note: Includes letters received from his brother-in-law, Elting E. Morison who wrote the first biography of Adm. Sims.
1916 Sep 14-1980 Nov 18
Box 3, Folder 1-3 Correspondence: William S. Sims, Jr.
Contents Note: Includes letters sent to his family while serving in World War II.
1939 Apr 17-1940 Mar 25, 1984 Oct 9-1994 Aug 27
Box 20, Folder 1 Drawing: Unidentified ship by Sherman Morss
undated
Box 20, Folder 2 Ephemera: Address book
Contents Note: Maintained by Admiral Sims while stationed in London.
circa 1917-1918
Box 3, Folder 4 Ephemera: Address book
1936
Box 3, Folder 5 Ephemera: Calling cards
undated
Box 3, Folder 6 Ephemera: Camp Sims stamp
Contents Note: Camp Sims was a private naval camp for boys on Prudence Island, R.I. during the summer of 1919.
1919
Box 3, Folder 7 Ephemera: Christmas programs
undated
Box 20, Folder 3 Ephemera: Dinner parties
Contents Note: Lists of guest and menus from dinner parties held by Anne H. Sims in Newport, R.I.
1919-1922
Box 3, Folder 8 Ephemera: Drawing, "Westward-Ho, 1579; Eastward-Ho, 1917"
circa 1917
Box 3, Folder 9 Ephemera: Eagle hut, American Y.M.C.A., London program
circa 1918
Box 3, Folder 10 Ephemera: Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) launching, program
1960 Nov
Box 3, Folder 11 Ephemera: Farewell luncheon given in honor of Adm. Sims by Americans in London, under the auspices of the American Luncheon Club
1919 Mar 14
Box 20, Folder 4-5 Ephemera: Guest books
Contents Note: Includes autographs of many high rank naval officers.
1902 Jul 27-1919 Aug 22
Box 3, Folder 12 Ephemera: Guest book
1943-1945
Box 3, Folder 13 Ephemera: Invitation book
1912-1915
Box 3, Folder 14-17 Ephemera: Invitations
Contents Note: Includes invitations to the White House by the Roosevelts.
1906 Jan 1-1909 Feb 18, 1932 Apr 17 and undated
Box 4, Folder 1 Ephemera: Lecture series program
1935
Box 20, Folder 6 Ephemera: List of letters and other messages received on the death of William S. Sims
1936
Box 4, Folder 2 Ephemera: List of people who received copies of "Naval Losses of the Great War," by T. B. Kittredge
circa 1921
Box 4, Folder 3 Ephemera: Lists
undated
Box 4, Folder 4 Ephemera: London events attended by Adm. Sims
Contents Note: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of King George V and Queen Mary, American Luncheon Club in London, and Princess Patricia's wedding
1918-1919
Box 4, Folder 5 Ephemera: Menu, lunch at Winter Palace
1899 Jan 6
Box 0, Folder 1 Ephemera: Naval War College organizational chart
1921 Aug 26
Box 4, Folder 6 Ephemera: Navy Day, Newport, R.I., with an address by Col. Theodore Roosevelt on "The American Navy"
1913 Jul 2-3
Box 4, Folder 7 Ephemera: Notes on Nelson's Victory oak block, 1919 Mar 21
undated
Box 0, Folder 2 Ephemera: Notice to the Public poster
undated
Box 4, Folder 8 Ephemera: Phrases made from newspaper headlines by William S. Sims
undated
Box 4, Folder 9 Ephemera: The Pilgrim's Dinner in honour of Admiral Sims, Savoy Hotel
1919 Mar 21
Box 4, Folder 10 Ephemera: Poem transcribed by Anne H. Sims
undated
Box 4, Folder 11 Ephemera: Police passes for presidential inauguration
1909 Mar 4
Box 4, Folder 12 Ephemera: Postcards from Russia
circa 1897
Box 4, Folder 13 Ephemera: Receipt for payment for a copy of "Promotion by Selection," by Adm. Sims signed by Adm. Ernest J. King
1935 Dec 4
Box 4, Folder 14 Ephemera: Registry of war guests in WWII for Sunday lunch or at other times
1942-1947
Box 4, Folder 15 Ephemera: Signature cards
1913-1935
Box 4, Folder 16 Ephemera: William S. Sims' appointment as an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
1918 Dec 31
Box 4, Folder 17 Ephemera: The Soldier's Psalm
undated
Box 4, Folder 18 Ephemera: Typewritten pictures and sketches by William S. Sims
1920 and undated
Box 4, Folder 19 Ephemera: U.S.S. Admiral W.S. Sims (AP-127) commissioning
1945 Sep 27
Box 4, Folder 20 Ephemera: U.S.S. Melville flagship envelope
undated
Box 4, Folder 21 Ephemera: U.S.S. Minnesota at sea, menu
Contents Note: This menu has an illustration of Sims on it by Henry Reuterdahl.
1910
Box 4, Folder 22 Ephemera: U.S.S. Sims (DE-154) commissioning
1943 Apr 24 and undated
Box 4, Folder 23 Ephemera: Welcoming dinner in honor of Rear Admiral and Mrs. William S. Sims (includes poem)
1922 Oct 30
Box 21, Folder 1 Logbooks: Computation of distances on the Great Circle Steam Routes, from Fastnet and Bishops Rock to Sandy Hook
1883 Jan
Box 21, Folder 2-3 Logbooks: Drill tables and key nos. 1-2
1890
Box 21, Folder 4 Logbooks: Elements of navigation book and journal
Contents Note: Includes printed "Gunnery drill book for the new armaments, United States Navy," prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Navigation, 1893 along with Sims's handwritten notes on gunnery and navigation.
1893
Box 21, Folder 5 Logbooks: Journal on navigation
1890-1892
Box 22, Folder 1 Logbooks: U.S.S. Swatara
Contents Note: Maintained by Sims while serving onboard as a midshipman. Includes notes and drawings on steam ships taken by Sims while a student at USNA.
1883 Jan 10-1885 Nov 14
Box 4, Folder 24 Photographs: Aspinwall, U.S.C.
undated
Box 4, Folder 25 Photographs: Battle action ship damage
undated
Box 4, Folder 26 Photographs: Battleships in review
1915
Box 4, Folder 27 Photographs: Edwards family
undated
Box 4, Folder 28 Photographs: German warships (unidentified)
undated
Box 0, Folder 3 Photographs: Guild Hall, London - formal dinner
circa 1910
Box 4, Folder 29 Photographs: Harbor at Charlotte Amalie
1981 Dec
Box 4, Folder 30 Photographs: Hitchcock family
undated
Box 0, Folder 4 Photographs: Hitchcock family
Contents Note: Includes images from their time abroad in Hong Kong and Russia
undated
Box 4, Folder 31 Photographs: Hitchcock family in Hong Kong
circa 1860-1870
Box 4, Folder 32 Photographs: Hitchcock family in Russia
1897-1899
Box 4, Folder 33 Photographs: Jellicoe family
circa 1918 and undated
Box 4, Folder 34 Photographs: Nelson Day church parades, Cardiff, England
1918 Oct 20
Box 4, Folder 35 Photographs: Portraits given to Admiral Sims
Contents Note: Contre Amiral Jean Etienne, Frederick George Wright, and Rear Admiral Charles L. Hussey
1917-1919
Box 4, Folder 36 Photographs: Scene for "Q-Ships"
Contents Note: Shows the recreation of a meeting between Admirals Sims and Jellicoe
1928
Box 5, Folder 1 Photographs: Anne H. Sims
circa 1875-1960
Box 5, Folder 2 Photographs: Anne H. Sims with her children
circa 1909-1922
Box 5, Folder 3 Photographs: Sims family
1935-1951 and undated
Box 0, Folder 5 Photographs: Sims family
1917-1922
Box 5, Folder 4 Photographs: Sims family children
circa 1914-1918
Box 5, Folder 5 Photographs: Sims family photograph album
circa 1940s-1950s
Box 0, Folder 6 Photographs: Sims family residence - 93 Rhode Island Ave., Newport, R.I.
circa 1917
Box 5, Folder 6-9 Photographs: William S. Sims
circa 1875-1933
Box 0, Folder 7 Photographs: William S. Sims
circa 1918-1935
Box 5, Folder 10-11 Photographs: William S. Sims, Anne H. Sims and their family
circa 1916-1935
Box 5, Folder 12 Photographs: William S. Sims and his children
circa 1916-1925
Box 5, Folder 13 Photographs: William S. Sims and President Theodore Roosevelt
Contents Note: Five photographs showing President Roosevelt onboard a Navy ship taking leave of Captain Hugo Osterhaus at Hampton Roads, VA with Sims observing.
1907 Dec 16
Box 0, Folder 8 Photographs: William S. Sims with Nicholas Butler, Henry P. Davidson, General John J. Pershing, Bishop Charles H. Brent, Herbert Hoover, and William B. Parsons at Columbia University
1920 Jun 1
Box 5, Folder 14 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - London
1922
Box 5, Folder 15 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - London with Admiral Bayley
1921
Box 5, Folder 16 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - Washington investigation
circa 1921
Box 5, Folder 17 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I
circa 1917-1918
Box 5, Folder 18 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, Admiralty House (Queenstown, Ireland)
1917 May
Box 5, Folder 19 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, Army-Navy baseball games
1918
Box 22, Folder 2 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, Inter-Allied Conference
1918 Sep 14
Box 22, Folder 3 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, London
1917
Box 22, Folder 4 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, return to Newport
1919 Apr
Box 5, Folder 20 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, ships escorting President Wilson to Brest, France
1918 Dec 13
Box 22, Folder 5 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - World War I, visit by Admiral Sims and Princess Louisa at St. John's Boys School, Ealing, England
Contents Note: Adm. Sims and the Princess raised both an American flag and the Union Jack to recognize the joint Anglo-American program to train aviation mechanics.
circa 1917
Box 22, Folder 6 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - U.S. Naval War College
circa 1917-1922
Box 5, Folder 21 Photographs: William S. Sims's career - U.S.S. Minnesota
circa 1910
Box 6, Folder 1-2 Photographs: William S. Sims, Jr. photograph albums
Contents Note: Two photograph albums compiled by William S. Sims, Jr. which include snapshots and clippings detailing his experiences at the Weaver School (Middletown, R.I.), St. George's School (Newport, R.I.), and South Pond Cabins (Fitzwilliam, N.H.).
1920-1926
Box 7, Folder 1-2 Photographs: Sowden family home, Port Hope, Canada
1983, 1994 Sep 7
Box 7, Folder 3 Photographs: Submarines at Harwich
Contents Note: Official British navy photographs
1918 Nov 24
Box 7, Folder 4 Photographs: Surrender of the German fleet
Contents Note: Official British navy photographs
1918 Nov 21
Box 7, Folder 5 Photographs: Lillian M. (Thompson) Tennant
Contents Note: She was Adm. Sims's private secretary during the war
1945-1947 and undated
Box 7, Folder 6 Photographs: United States Naval Academy, class of 1880
circa 1880
Box 7, Folder 7-9 Photographs: United States Naval Academy, class of 1880 student portraits
Contents Note: 62 individual photographs of members of the class of 1880. The majority are identified on the verso of the photograph.
circa 1880
Box 0, Folder 9 Photographs: U.S.S. Constellation (reproduction)
undated
Box 0, Folder 10 Photographs: U.S.S. Minnesota (BB-22) crew and officers
1909
Box 0, Folder 11 Photographs: U.S.S. Mohican
Contents Note: Image of four sailors on deck.
1888
Box 7, Folder 10 Photographs: U.S.S. Admiral W.S. Sims (AP-127) launch
1945 Jun 4
Box 7, Folder 11 Photographs: U.S.S. Sims (DD-409)
1939 Jul 6
Box 8, Folder 1 Photographs: U.S.S. Sims (DE-154) christening and commissioning
1943 Apr 24
Box 8, Folder 2 Photographs: U.S.S. Swatara and U.S.S. Tennessee
undated
Box 8, Folder 3 Photographs: U.S.S. W.S. Sims (DE-1059)
circa 1964
Box 8, Folder 4 Photographs: Warships at harbor
undated
Box 0, Folder 12 Photographs: World War I
Contents Note: Includes images of an injured French soldier, a gathering of the American Officers Club in London, and a poster: "What the Navy is doing," showing Sims with Rear Admiral McKean and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1917
Box 8, Folder 5 Photographs: World War I - U.S. Naval Base Cardiff; Marines vs. Blue Jackets rugby game
1918 Nov
Box 22, Folder 7 Publications: Crossword puzzle book and related correspondence
Contents Note: Correspondence and crossword puzzles written by Sims and his son, William S. Sims, Jr. They had puzzles published in New York and Boston papers when crossword puzzles were first becoming popular.
1924-1925
Box 8, Folder 6 Publications: Exhibition of war portraits, the National Art Committee
1921
Box 8, Folder 7 Publications: Mail and censorship regulations for U.S. Naval Forces operating in European waters (approved by William S. Sims)
1918 Jun 1
Box 8, Folder 8 Publications: Military Order of the World War National Bulletin
1936 Oct, Nov
Box 8, Folder 9 Publications: The Naval Academy Association of New York, vol. 3 no. 4
Contents Note: Includes a letter from Mrs. Sims
1937 May
Box 8, Folder 10 Publications: Report of the speeches at the Independence Day Dinner, The American Society in London (copy)
1918 Jul 4
Box 8, Folder 11 Publications: A Welcome to all American Soldiers and Sailors by Ian Hay
1918
Box 8, Folder 12 Transcriptions: Hitchcock family letters
1897 Jul 11-1898 Feb 9
Box 8, Folder 13 Transcriptions: Hitchcock family letters sent during stays in France and Russia
1897 Jul 27-1898 Oct 2
Box 8, Folder 14 Transcriptions: Margaret Collier Hitchcock letters sent from Hong Kong
Contents Note: Transcriptions by Anne Sims Morison in October 1980.
1869-1870
Box 8, Folder 15 Transcriptions: Anne Sims Morison, News Bulletin from Peterborough
1938 Sep 29-1939 Aug 16
Box 8, Folder 16 Transcriptions: William S. Sims's dictations to William S. Sims, Jr. (incomplete)
undated
Box 8, Folder 17-19 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters
1876 Jun 25-1885 Apr 31
Box 9, Folder 1-7 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters
1885 May 13-1893 Dec 21
Box 10, Folder 1-7 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters
1894 Jan 5-1898 Aug 7
Box 11, Folder 1-9 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters
1901 Feb 28-1909 Oct 22
Box 12, Folder 1-6 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters
1909 Oct 23-1915 Sep 20
Box 13, Folder 1 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters
1916 May 1-1918 Sep 2
Box 13, Folder 2 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters to Louisa, his sister
1916-1925
Box 13, Folder 3 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters, Alphabetical file, index
Box 13, Folder 4-12 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters, Alphabetical file, A-Ni
Box 14, Folder 1-9 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters, Alphabetical file, Pa-Ya
Box 14, Folder 10 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters, Alphabetical file, Personal
Box 14, Folder 11 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters sent to Washington
1893-1925
Box 15, Folder 1-14 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters used by Anne H. Sims, A-O
1893-1934
Box 16, Folder 1-6 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters used by Anne H. Sims, P-W
1901-1926
Box 16, Folder 7 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters used by Anne H. Sims, duplicates
1909-1919
Box 16, Folder 8-14 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters with annotations
1906 Apr 14-1910 Feb 28
Box 17, Folder 1-12 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters with annotations
1910 Mar 1-1917 Nov 15
Box 18, Folder 1-13 Transcriptions: William S. Sims letters with annotations
1917 Nov 22-1936 Oct 8
Box 19, Folder 1 Writings: Anecdotes of William S. Sims by William S. Sims, Jr. (copy)
1984 Dec 18
Box 19, Folder 2 Writings: A brief summary of the United States naval activities in European waters with outline of the organization of Admiral Sims's headquarters (copy)
1918 Aug 3
Box 19, Folder 3 Writings: Captain Tracey B. Kittredge, "A comparative analysis of problems and methods of coalition action in two world wars"
1956 Sep
Box 19, Folder 4 Writings: Memorandum upon economy in food consumption
Contents Note: Includes a bulleting and handwritten note by William S. Sims.
circa 1918
Box 19, Folder 5 Writings: Anne Sims Morison, "Notes on MSS Collection"
Contents Note: Regarding the papers of Ethan A. Hitchcock.
1980
Box 19, Folder 6 Writings: Anne Sims Morison, "Sojourn in St. Petersburg, 1897-1899" on the Hitchcock family's experience in Russia
1980 Apr 17, 1982 Nov 2
Box 19, Folder 7 Writings: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's praise of Admiral Sims (copies)
1940 May 15
Box 19, Folder 8 Writings: Secretary Von L. Meyer and the Reorganization of the [Navy] Department (copy)
circa 1909
Box 19, Folder 9 Writings: Anne H. Sims, reminiscences of father, Ethan A. Hitchcock
1957 Sep 19
Box 19, Folder 10 Writings: William S. Sims, address to USNA students
undated
Box 19, Folder 11 Writings: William S. Sims, "A letter to the dragon"
Contents Note: Responding to an editorial on a Tuck Shop.
circa 1927-1928
Box 19, Folder 12 Writings: William S. Sims, "Military character"
1917 Mar
Box 19, Folder 13 Writings: William S. Sims, "Navy Air Policy," draft
1925 Oct 14
Box 19, Folder 14 Writings: William S. Sims, poems
Contents Note: Includes poems Sims wrote for his son, William S. Sims, Jr.
1922, 1930-1934 and undated
Box 19, Folder 15 Writings: William S. Sims, satirical nursing rhymes
circa 1918
Box 19, Folder 16 Writings: William S. Sims, "The Sloop Garden"
undated
Box 19, Folder 17 Writings: William S. Sims, Thanksgiving day message
1918 Nov 28
Box 19, Folder 18 Writings: William S. Sims, Jr. during World War II
1942-1946
Box 22, Folder 8 Writings: William S. Sims, Jr. during World War II
1944 Aug 11