TY  - GEN
AU  - Morse,Samuel Finley Breese
AU  - Clausing,Ludwig
TI  - Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers,
KW  - Agassiz, Louis,
KW  - Allston, Washington,
KW  - Chapman, J. G.
KW  - Clinton, DeWitt,
KW  - Cogdell, John S.
KW  - Cole, Thomas,
KW  - Cooper, James Fenimore,
KW  - Cornell, Ezra,
KW  - Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé,
KW  - Evarts, Jeremiah,
KW  - Field, Cyrus W.
KW  - Greenough, Horatio,
KW  - Grimké, Thomas Smith,
KW  - Henry, Joseph,
KW  - Kendall, Amos,
KW  - King, Charles Bird,
KW  - Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,
KW  - Leslie, Charles Robert,
KW  - Morse, Jedidiah,
KW  - Morse, Lucretia Pickering Walker,
KW  - Morse, Sidney E.
KW  - Rush, Richard,
KW  - Seward, William Henry,
KW  - Stuart, Gilbert,
KW  - West, Benjamin,
KW  - Wilberforce, William,
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - United States
KW  - Anti-Catholicism
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Europe
KW  - Italy
KW  - Art
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Art, American
KW  - Art, British
KW  - Art, Italian
KW  - Art, European
KW  - Germans
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Nativism
KW  - Patents law and legislation
KW  - Photography
KW  - Portrait painting, American
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Telegraph
KW  - History
KW  - Patents
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - War of 1812
KW  - Artists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Inventors
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000013
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010.3
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