Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944 (bulk 1807-1872).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 10,060 items; 72 containers plus 3 oversize; 36 microfilm reels; 18.4 linear feetSubject(s): - 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
- Inventors
- 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.
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
There are no comments on this title.