NAVY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON

[Nov 1918]

M-29-HLB

My dear Governor:

The Navy Department desires to make permanent the operation of the Naval Air Station recently established on a part of the property known as Camp Glenn, in the vicinity of Morehead City, N.C.

As it is the policy of the Department to establish permanent stations only upon property which it owns or holds under a long term lease, it seems proper at this time to refer to your letter of August 23, 1918, in which you tendered the “full and free use of Camp Glenn” to the Navy Department.

In view of the above, it is requested that the Department be advised whether there are any objections to proceeding with negotiations, through the proper channels, leading to the purchase or lease of the above named property.

An early reply is requested.

Yours very truly,

Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy.

Governor T. W. Bickett,
Raleigh, N.C.