Philip Putnam Chase papers, 1888-1965 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, military papers, and diaries of Philip Putnam Chase, lawyer and professor of history at Harvard College. Most of the letters are from Chase's Harvard classmate Marlborough Churchill, a career army officer who commanded artillery forces in World War I. Other correspondents include Harvard faculty members and President Charles William Eliot. Chase served in Battery A of the Light Artillery, Massachusetts Militia, in the early 1900s, enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserve and commanded the U.S.S. Malay in anti-submarine service during World War I, and again served in the Coast Guard Reserve during World War II. A logbook of Coast Guard vessel 1001 is included