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Correspondence, largely with John Shaw Billings, relating to research done at the New York Public Library by American naval strategist and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan. Some letters include brief discussions of naval history. Also included are notes and numerous drafts of diagrams depicting naval battles with annotations from Mahan to the draughtsman, ostensibly created for his book Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 less