Chiefly letters to Stephen Bleecker Luce and H.C. Taylor during their terms as president of the U.S. Naval War College. Subjects include appropriations, curriculum, lecturers, and a proposal for a school with post-graduate courses for naval officers. Correspondents include Charles C. Cornwell, A.T. Mahan, Thomas Perry, David D. Porter, Francis M. Ramsay, and William Ledyard Rodgers.