Robert Orville Carver First World War correspondence

This collection contains correspondence from ENG2/C Robert Orville Carver, USN to his mother and sister during the First World War while aboard the USS Mount Vernon. Also included are documents and other materials such as various naval orders, documents informing the family of his death, newspaper clippings, and one small photograph. Added 5/4/2021: one book, "The Bluejacket's Manual, United States Navy, 1917."

ENG 2 Carver wrote letters and some postcards to his mother Ada and his sister Ruth, covering a period from July 1917 to February 1918. There is also one folder containing photocopies of a letter fragment and a newsclipping naming him among the dead aboard the U.S.S. Mount Vernon, as well as a handwritten story about the torpedo attack that hit the ship.

This collection also contains a small photograph and documents and material relating to ENG 2 Carver's death on September 5, 1945. This includes naval orders, newspaper clippings, and documents informing his family of his passing.

The Bluejacket's Manual is the fifth edition, revised November 1916 by Lieutenant Norman R. Van Der Veer, United States Navy, and is an authorized edition of Franklin Printing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. Carver wrote his initials on the bottom edge of the book block and his name on the inside of the front cover along with the date "4/19/18." (Flat File D: Drawer 2)