Correspondence, journal, notebook, orders to duty, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primaraily to Taylor's naval career. Documents Taylor's service as commander in chief of the U.S. Navy Asiatic Fleet, the Japanese expansion into China and the invasion of Shanghai in 1932, and life in East Asia. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Ewing E. Booth, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Nelson T. Johnson, Frank Ross McCoy, William Veazie Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Harrison Standley, and Taylor's brother John R.M. Taylor.