Caspar F. Goodrich Collection
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Abstract
The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered while an instructor at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, extracts from the diary of his grandfather Captain James Goodrich, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Spanish-American War.
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The collection is arranged in five series:
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- Series I. Correspondence
- Series II. Naval War College lectures and lecture notes
- Series III. Writings
- Series IV. James Goodrich journal transcripts
- Series V. Bound volumes
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered while a lecturer at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, and extracts from the diary of his grandfather, Captain James Goodrich.
The Goodrich Collection forms Series 21 of the Naval History Society Collection, comprising 53 individual collections named for famous naval figures and ships, as well as the records of the Naval History Society itself, and donated to the New-York Historical Society by the Naval History Society in 1925.
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Access Restrictions
Open to qualified researchers.
Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to twenty exposures of stable, unbound material per day. (Researchers may not accrue unused copy amounts from previous days.)
Use Restrictions
Permission to quote from this collection in a publication must be requested and granted in writing. Send permission requests, citing the name of the collection from which you wish to quote, to
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The New-York Historical Society
Two West 77th Street
New York, NY 10024
The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials. Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication without permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as NHSC-Goodrich, The New-York Historical Society.
Provenance
Donated to the New-York Historical Society in 1936 by the Naval History Society.