06708cpcaa2201057 a 4500 mm 75033670 DLC 20260227111616.0 cr ||||||||||| 750508|||||||||||| eng mm 75033670 ms 71001385 DLC dacs DLC DLC S lcmd Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944 (bulk 1807-1872). 10,060 items. 72 containers plus 3 oversize. 36 microfilm reels. 18.4 linear feet. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, newspapers, printed matter, maps, drawings, photographs, and other papers. Includes letters from Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States and commenting on American, British, and European art; correspondence and other papers relating to his invention of the telegraph, law suits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have invented the telegraph; diaries (chiefly 1829-1831) recording his travels in Italy and elsewhere in Europe and his observations on art and architecture; and papers of Ludwig Clausing (also known as Lewis or Louis), a German immigrant to the United States whom Morse befriended. Other topics include abolitionism, Anti-Catholicism, the nativist movement, and the science of photography. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Washington Allston, J. G. Chapman, DeWitt Clinton, Thomas Cole, John S. Cogdell, James Fenimore Cooper, Ezra Cornell, Louis Daguerre, Jeremiah Evarts, Cyrus Field, Horatio Greenough, Thomas Smith Grimké, Joseph Henry, Amos Kendall, Charles B. King, Marquis de Lafayette, Charles Robert Leslie, Jedidiah Morse, Lucretia Pickering Walker Morse, Sidney E. Morse, Richard Rush, William H. Seward, Francis O. J. Smith, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West, and William Wilberforce. Selected correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, scrapbooks, printed matter, maps, drawings, and other miscellaneous materials also available through the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm edition available for general and family correspondence (containers 1-53); letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, and scrapbooks (containers 58-62); and printed material (containers 69-70), no. 16,372. Microfilm edition of additional family letters (container 75) available, no. 6,295A. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1944 and 1975. Some photographs and silhouettes transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Telegraph cable transferred to Smithsonian Institution. Artist and inventor. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 Correspondence. Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 Correspondence. Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 Correspondence. Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 Correspondence. Cogdell, John S. (John Stevens), 1778-1847 Correspondence. Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 Correspondence. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Correspondence. Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874 Correspondence. Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 Correspondence. Evarts, Jeremiah, 1781-1831 Correspondence. Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 Correspondence. Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852 Correspondence. Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 Correspondence. Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Correspondence. Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869 Correspondence. King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862 Correspondence. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 Correspondence. Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 Correspondence. Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 Correspondence. Morse, Lucretia Pickering Walker, -1825 Correspondence. Morse, Sidney E. (Sidney Edwards), 1794-1871 Correspondence. Rush, Richard, 1780-1859 Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Correspondence. Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 Correspondence. West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 Correspondence. Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833 Correspondence. Abolitionists United States. Anti-Catholicism. Architecture Europe. Architecture Italy. Art Study and teaching Great Britain 19th century. Art, American. Art, British. Art, Italian. Art, European. Germans United States. Immigrants United States. Nativism. Patents law and legislation. Photography. Portrait painting, American 19th century. Slavery United States. Telegraph History. Telegraph Patents. Europe Description and travel. Great Britain Description and travel. Italy Description and travel. United States History War of 1812. Artists. itoamc Inventors. itoamc Clausing, Ludwig, 1809?-1834. Ludwig Clausing papers. Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919. The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000013 Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010.3 39357 39357