Charles Lee Lewis Papers, 1918-1962 (approximate): Finding Aid

Articles, 1918-1945 Box 1

Off-prints of Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute articles written by Lewis. The articles focus on such topics as the literature and art of the sea, Byzantine military campaigns, the history of human flight in literature, the sinking and survivors of U.S.S. Helena, and the history of American naval involvement in the Mediterranean and Asia.

Arranged chronologically.

Manuscripts, 1946-1962 (approximate) Boxes 1-3

Unpublished manuscripts authored by Lewis. The works include a biography of Commodore Thomas Macdonough, two novels, a treatise on the nature of Christianity, and a two-volume anthology of notable and obscure poems about famous naval battles, entitled Sea Poems: Naval Battles. Included with the manuscripts are several illustrations for the biography of Macdonough, as well as their accompanying cover letters. With the exception of the Macdonough biography, the majority of the works are presumed to have been written following Lewis's retirement from the Naval Academy in 1951.

Volume One of Sea Poems includes "Menelaus Captures a Penteconter" by Euripides, "The Grecian Fleet in Port at Aulis Ready for the Voyage to Troy" by Euripides, "The Battle of Salamis" by Aeschylus, "The Battle of Salamis" from "Persae" by Timotheus, "Trojan Attack on the Greek Fleet" from the Iliad, "The Battle of Actium" from the Aeneid, "Cleopatra" and "The Victory at Actium" from the Odes and Epodes by Horace, "The Sea Fight at Marseilles" from De Bello Civili by Lucan, "The Battle of Actium" from Legend of Good Women by Chaucer, "Near Actium: Antony's Camp" from Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare, "The Saga of King Olaf" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Fleet of King Canute" from the "Togdrapa" and "Battle in Hafersfjord" by Snorre Sturlason, "The Sea-fight at Sluys" by Laurence Minot, "The Fight at Malago," "Lepanto" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, "Song of the Prow-gilders" by Victor Hugo, "King Christian: A National Song of Denmark" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Armada" by Thomas Babington Macaulay, "The Armada 1588:1888" by Algernon Charles Swimburne, "The Spanish Armada" from Drake: An English Epic by Alfred Noyes, "The Invincible Armada" by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, "An Excellent Song on the Winning of Cales by the English" by Thomas Deloney, "The Taking of Cartagena" by Thomas Greepe, "A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth of the Spanish Armada" by Austin Dobson, "The Defeat of the Armada" by William Warner, "An Epigram upon the sovereign of the Seas Lying in the Docks at Woolwich" by Thomas Heywood, "A Farewell to the Most Famous Generals, Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, Knights" by George Peele, "Sir Francis Drake" by Thomas d'Urfey, "God Save Elizabeth" by Francis Turner Palgrave, "On the Victory Obtained by Admiral Blake" by Andrew Marvell, "To the King on His Navy" by Edmund Waller, "The Epitaph Acrostick on Robert Blake" by George Harrison, "De Ruyter's Raid" by Andrew Marvell, "Of a War with Spain and Fight at Sea" by Edmund Waller, "The Royal Victory," "Monk and Rupert Engage De Ruyter" by John Dryden, "England's Triumph and Holland's Downfall: of The Second Royal Victory," "Holland Turned to Tinder: or England's Third Great Royal Victory," "An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honourable Robert Blake," "The Valiant Seaman's Congratulation to His Sacred Majesty King Charles II," "The Dutch Damnified," "A Song of the Duke's Late Glorious Success over the Dutch," "Hawke" and "The Death of Admiral Blake" by Henry Newbolt, "Robert Blake" by Frederic E. Weatherly, "Torringtonia," "To All You Ladies" by Charles Sackville, "Admiral Russell's Scowering the French Fleet," "The Death of Admiral Benbow," "Brave News from Admiral Vernon," "On the Loss of the Royal George" by William Cowper, "Admiral Hosier's Ghost" by Richard Glover, "Neptune's Resignation" by J. Wignell, "Tit for Tat: A Sea Kick for a Land Cuff," "A Rueful Story, Admiral Byng's Glory, or Who Run Away First," "Admiral Byng and Brave West," "Rule Britannia" by James Thomson, "The Arethusa" by Prince Hoare, "Thurot," "The Boasting of Sir Peter Parker" by Clinton Scollard, "The Cruise of the Fair American," "On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle" by Philip Freneau, "Paul Jones," "The Yankee Man-of-War," "Paul Jones - A New Song," "The Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis" and "Song on Captain Barney's Victory over the Ship General Monk" by Philip Freneau, "The South Carolina," "The Yankee Privateer" by Arthur Hale, "The Prize of the Margaretta" by Will Carleton, "Mugford's Victory" by John W. Chadwick, "On the New American Frigate Alliance" by Philip Freneau, "Paul Jones's Victory," "Captain Jones's Invitation" and "On the Late Royal Sloop-of-War General Monk" by Philip Freneau, "Admiral Keppel Triumphant," "Hood's Conquest over the Count de Grasse," "Admiral Rodney's Triumph on the 12th of April," "A New Song on Parker the Delegate," "A New Song on the Sea Engagement Fought the First of June," "A New Song in Praise of Admiral Duncan" by J. Prat, "The Surrender of Cornwallis," "Truxtun's Victory," "The Constellation and L'Insurgente," "The Siege of Tripoli," "On the Launching of the Frigate Constitution" by Philip Freneau, "The Launch: A Federal Song," "Truxton's Victory," "The Boston Frigate's Engagement with the French Corvette Le Berceau," "Sterret's Sea Fight," "Admiral Keppel Triumphant: or Monsieur in the Suds," "The Brave Tars of Old England," "The Chapter of Admirals," "The Dutch Defeated," "A New Sea Song," "Hawke's Engagement," "The Royal Triumph," "Naval Victories," "Song of the Sea Fight" by John Dryden, "A Song in Praise of Admiral Duncan," "The Battle of the Nile," "Casabianca" by Felicia Hemans, "Copenhagen" by Thomas Campbell, "A New Song on Lord Nelson's Victory at Copenhagen," "Admirals All" by Henry Newbolt, and "Action off Copenhagen."

Volume Two of Sea Poems includes "Trafalgar," "Trafalgar" from The Battle of Trafalgar: A Poem in Six Cantos, "The Battle of Trafalgar," "The Last Three from Trafalgar" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Nelson's Glorious Victory at Trafalgar," "The Night of Trafalgar" by Thomas Hardy, "Nelson's Glorious Victory," "The Death of Nelson," "Death of Nelson" by Martin Bladen Hawke, "Epitaph" by R. Bland, "Northumberland" by Henry Newbolt, "The Fighting Temeraire" by Henry Newbolt, "The Brave Old Temeraire" by J. Duff, "The Arrival of Nelson's Corpse" and "The Death of Nelson" by Charles Dibdin the Elder, "The Death of Nelson" by S. J. Arnold, "Trafalgar" by F. T. Palgrave, "The Quarter-Gunner's Yarn" by Henry Newbolt, "Lines to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, G.C.B." by L.E.L., "Lines" from Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, "A New Song Composed on the Death of Lord Nelson," "Admiral Nelson," "The Old 'Superb'" by Henry Newbolt, "Ulm and Trafalgar" by George Canning, "Songs of Trafalgar" by J. W. Croker, "The Hundredth Year" by Henry Newbolt, "Nelson's Year (1905)" by Alfred Noyes, "Trafalgar Day" by A. C. Swinburne, "Rogers and Bingham," "Rodgers & Victory: Tit for Tat," "The American Constitution Frigate's Engagement with the British Frigate Guerriere," "Song: A Yankee song for the amusement of the crews of his Britannic majesty's ships Phoebe and Cherub," "On the Capture of the Guerriere" by Philip Freneau, "The Constitution and the Guerriere," "Halifax Station," "Our Navy," "Firstfruits in 1812" by Wallace Rice, "Bainbridge's Victory," "Glorious Naval Victory" by James Campbell, "The Frigate Constitution," "Old Ironsides" from The Book of the Navy by John Frost, "The Constitution's Last Fight" by James Jeffrey Roche, "In Memory of James Lawrence, Esquire" by Philip Freneau, "Chesapeake and Shannon," "Battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake," "Shannon and Chesapeake," "The Battle of Lake Erie" by Philip Freneau, "Defeat and Victory" by Wallace Rice, "The Shannon and the Chesapeake" by Thomas Trace Bouve, "The Shannon and Chesapeake," "Perry's Victory - A Song," "On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry" by John G. C. Brainard, "Perry's Victory," "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie" by James Gates Percival, "The Battle of Erie," "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: or We Will Box It Out," "The Peacock Stung by the Hornet," "Wasp Stinging Frolick," "Enterprise and Boxer," "The Wasp's Frolic," "The Ocean Fight," "The Hornet: or Victory No. 5" by Samuel Woodworth, "Sailor's Elegy on the Fate of the Wasp," "The Lost War-Sloop" by Edna Dean Proctor, "The Two Proud Sisters of the Sea" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Jack Creamer" by James Jeffrey Roche, "Decatur's Victory," "A New Song, Called the Endymion's Triumph," "The Battle of Valparaiso," "On the Capture of the U.S. Frigate Essex" by Philip Freneau, "Song" for the galley-slave on board the Phoebe, "The Battle of Plattsburg Bay" by Clinton Scollard, "Brilliant Naval Victory on Lake Champlain," "The Battle of Plattsburg," "The Battle of Lake Champlain" by Philip Freneau, "Siege of Plattsburgh" by Micajah Hawkins, "On Board the 'Saratoga'," "The Blue Hen's Chickens" by Arthur Guiterman, "The Uncourteous Knight, and the Courteous Lady," "The Fight of the Armstrong Privateer" by James Jeffrey Roche, "The Armstrong at Fayal" by Wallace Rice, "Reid at Fayal" by John Williamson Palmer, "The General Armstrong," "On the Loss of the Privateer Brigantine General Armstrong" by Philip Freneau, "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key, "Fort McHenry," "Ye Parliament of England," "Sea and Land Victories" from The Naval Songster, "Yankee Thunders," "Yankee Chronology" by William Dunlap, "On the British Blockade and Expected Attack on New York, 1814" by Philip Freneau, "Cash in Hand," "The Warship of 1812," "Stanzas on the Battle of Navarino" by Thomas Campbell, "The Battle of Navarino," "The Stone Fleet: an Old Sailor's Lament" and "Dupont's Round Fight" from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville, "At Port Royal - 1861" by John G. Whittier, "The Port Royal Dance" by R. S. Burk, "Bombardment of Forts Walker and Beauregard" by Isaac MacClellan, "The Sinking of the Cumberland: Hearts of Oak - an Epitaph, March 8, 1862" by Henry H. Brownell, "How the Cumberland Went Down" by William T. Meredith, "The Cumberland" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Cumberland's Crew" by George R. Willis, "The Cumberland" from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville, "On Board the 'Cumberland'" by George H. Boker, "The Turtle," "A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight," "In the Turret," and "The Temeraire" from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville, "Foote: A Lay of Island No. Ten," "The River Fight" by Henry Howard Brownell, "The Varuna" by George H. Boker, "The New Ballad of Lord Lovell," "The Battle of Charleston Harbor" by Paul Hamilton Hayne, "The Loyal Fisher," "New Orleans Won Back: A Lay for Our Sailors" by Robert Lowell, "The Battle of New Orleans of 1862" by Surgeon Robert T. Maccoun, "The Yankee Tars at New Orleans," "Running the Batteries" by Herman Melville, "The Kearsarge and the Alabama," "Through Fire in Mobile Bay" by T. C. Harbaugh, "The Bay Fight" by Henry Howard Brownell, and "The Battle of the Bay" from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville.

Arranged alphabetically by title.