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100 1 _aMorse, Samuel Finley Breese,
_d1791-1872.
245 0 0 _aSamuel Finley Breese Morse papers,
_f1793-1944
_g(bulk 1807-1872).
300 _a10,060
_fitems.
300 _a72
_fcontainers plus
_a3
_foversize.
300 _a36
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a18.4
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
506 _aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 _aFamily 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.
520 8 _aCorrespondents 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.
530 _aSelected correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, scrapbooks, printed matter, maps, drawings, and other miscellaneous materials also available through the Library of Congress Web site.
530 _aMicrofilm edition available for general and family correspondence (containers 1-53); letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, and scrapbooks (containers 58-62); and printed material (containers 69-70),
_dno. 16,372.
530 _aMicrofilm edition of additional family letters (container 75) available,
_dno. 6,295A.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1944 and 1975.
544 _3Some photographs and silhouettes
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
544 _3Telegraph cable
_etransferred to
_aSmithsonian Institution.
545 0 _aArtist and inventor.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010
600 1 0 _aAgassiz, Louis,
_d1807-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAllston, Washington,
_d1779-1843
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChapman, J. G.
_q(John Gadsby),
_d1808-1889
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClinton, DeWitt,
_d1769-1828
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCogdell, John S.
_q(John Stevens),
_d1778-1847
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCole, Thomas,
_d1801-1848
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCooper, James Fenimore,
_d1789-1851
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCornell, Ezra,
_d1807-1874
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDaguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé,
_d1787-1851
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEvarts, Jeremiah,
_d1781-1831
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aField, Cyrus W.
_q(Cyrus West),
_d1819-1892
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGreenough, Horatio,
_d1805-1852
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrimké, Thomas Smith,
_d1786-1834
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHenry, Joseph,
_d1797-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKendall, Amos,
_d1789-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKing, Charles Bird,
_d1785-1862
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,
_cmarquis de,
_d1757-1834
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLeslie, Charles Robert,
_d1794-1859
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMorse, Jedidiah,
_d1761-1826
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMorse, Lucretia Pickering Walker,
_d-1825
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMorse, Sidney E.
_q(Sidney Edwards),
_d1794-1871
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRush, Richard,
_d1780-1859
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSeward, William Henry,
_d1801-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aStuart, Gilbert,
_d1755-1828
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWest, Benjamin,
_d1738-1820
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilberforce, William,
_d1759-1833
_vCorrespondence.
650 0 _aAbolitionists
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAnti-Catholicism.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zEurope.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zItaly.
650 0 _aArt
_xStudy and teaching
_zGreat Britain
_y19th century.
650 0 _aArt, American.
650 0 _aArt, British.
650 0 _aArt, Italian.
650 0 _aArt, European.
650 0 _aGermans
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aImmigrants
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aNativism.
650 0 _aPatents law and legislation.
650 0 _aPhotography.
650 0 _aPortrait painting, American
_y19th century.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTelegraph
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTelegraph
_xPatents.
651 0 _aEurope
_zDescription and travel.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_zDescription and travel.
651 0 _aItaly
_zDescription and travel.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yWar of 1812.
656 7 _aArtists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aInventors.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aClausing, Ludwig,
_d1809?-1834.
_tLudwig Clausing papers.
740 0 _aSamuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919.
856 4 1 _3The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress.
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000013
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010.3
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