Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1872 creator mixed material monographic eng 10,060 72 3 36 18.4 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. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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 marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 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 Inventors Clausing, Ludwig, 1809?-1834 mm 75033670 hdl:loc.mss/collmss.ms000013 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 750508 20260227111616.0 mm 75033670