box 1, folder 1
Newport Navalog biographical profile 2192765
1967-07
box 1, folder 2
"Apprenticeship Memories Revived -or- 4 Years in the U.S.N." bound manuscript 2192767
1889-1890
Scope and Contents
An account of Buenzle's training aboard the Portsmouth in the Caribbean. Includes souvenir postcards of Jamaica, two large
albumen prints of St. Thomas, and newspaper clippings from the Newport Sentinel of letters Buenzle wrote to the paper.
box 1, folder 3
"That Mutiny of Ours" bound typescript 2192769
c.1940s
Scope and Contents
A narrative of the 1842 alleged mutiny aboard the U.S.S. Somers in which three sailors were hanged without a legal trial.
box 1, folder 4
"One Hundred Years Ago" typescript re: U.S.S. Somers incident 2192771
1942-09-10
box 1, folder 5
Bluejacket: An Autobiography 2192773
1986
Scope and Contents
Reprint by the Naval Institute Press in their Classics of Naval Literature series. Originally published by W.W. Norton in
1939.
box 1, folder 6
"Old Navy Men" typescript 2192775
circa 1940s
box 1, folder 7
reprints, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 2192777
1940, 1942
box 1, folder 8
"Here Comes A Sailor" Chapter XIII excerpt about his brief interaction with future King George V of England 2192779
box 1, folder 9
"Naval Casualties in Peacetime" typescript [published copy in scrapbook] 2192781
box 1, folder 10
"Three Days in the Rice Fields of China" manuscript 2192783
Scope and Contents
After five years of service, in 1893 Buenzle left the Navy and lived in Shanghai. He became an officer in the Chinese military
during the Sino-Japanese War, and "Three Days..." is a brief account of this experience.
box 1, folder 11
untitled speech transcript, U.S. Veterans' Home, Napa, with clipping about event 2192785
1939
box 2, folder 1
small notebook with addresses and accounts ; small unidentified Chinese book with illustrations 2192787
box 2, folder 2
correspondence to King George V with form reply from King's Personal Secretary 2192789
1935-09
box 2, folder 3
correspondence re: Somers incident manuscript 2192791
1944-1946
box 2, folder 4
scrapbook of approximately 80 silver gelatin prints including images of Naval training in Guantanamo Bay and other images
in and around Havana, Cuba
2192793
1898
M1983.ref1000.1
Existence and Location of Copies
This scrapbook has been digitized by Stanford and is available for research.
box 2, folder 5
correspondence re: Spanish-American War with souvenir pieces of flag removed from Spanish vessel 2192795
1940-02-20
box 2, folder 6
bulletins, correspondence, memoranda and notes re: U.S.S. New York and Spanish-American War 2192797
1898
Scope and Contents
Field notes, "order of battle" memoranda, William T. Sampson communication, and other documents.
box 2, folder 7
miscellaneous Navy correspondence, notes and other documents, including Buenzle's enlistment record 2192799
1894-1912
box 2, folder 8
The Pelican, U.S.S. Louisiana newsletter 2192801
1906-07
box 2, folder 9
Williwa, U.S.S. Pybus newsletters [8] 2192803
1943
box 2, folder 10
notes re: U.S.S. Portsmouth 2192805
box 2, folder 11
handwritten excerpt of review of Bluejacket 2192807
1944-06-30
box 2, folder 12
unidentified Chinese manuscript- 3 leaves 2192809
c.1890s
box 2, folder 13, box 2, folder 14
box 4, folder 1-6, box 5, box 3, folder 1-7
scrapbook of several hundred annotated silver prints 2192813
c.1880-1939
Scope and Contents
Large scrapbook with decorated wooden cover, featuring the Buenzle family and residences in Newport, Rhode Island, Los Gatos,
California, and elsewhere, as well as newspaper clippings of articles by or about Buenzle (many with no source or date). Boxes
3 and 4 contain loose pages, and Box 5 contains the enclosure.
flat-box 6
Piece of the flag under which the Spanish Cruiser Cristobal Colon surrendered to the American fleet on July third, 1898. Framed,
in glass.
