Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers

LC control no.	mm 75033670
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. » More like this
Main title	Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944 (bulk 1807-1872).
Related names	Clausing, Ludwig, 1809?-1834. Ludwig Clausing papers. » More like this
Related titles	Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919.
Description	10,060 items. 72 containers plus 3 oversize. 36 microfilm reels. 18.4 linear feet.
Access advisory	Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Biography/History note	Artist and inventor.
Summary	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.
Notes	Some photographs and silhouettes: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Telegraph cable: transferred to Smithsonian Institution. Collection material in English. MSS33670
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010>
Acquisition source	Gift, Edward Lind Morse and Leila Livingston Morse, 1916-1944. Purchase and gift, 1922-1995.
Additional formats	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.
Subjects	Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873--Correspondence. » More like this Allston, Washington, 1779-1843--Correspondence. » More like this Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889--Correspondence. » More like this Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828--Correspondence. » More like this Cogdell, John S. (John Stevens), 1778-1847--Correspondence. » More like this Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848--Correspondence. » More like this Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Correspondence. » More like this Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874--Correspondence. » More like this Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851--Correspondence. » More like this Evarts, Jeremiah, 1781-1831--Correspondence. » More like this Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892--Correspondence. » More like this Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852--Correspondence. » More like this Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834--Correspondence. » More like this Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878--Correspondence. » More like this Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869--Correspondence. » More like this King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862--Correspondence. » More like this Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Correspondence. » More like this Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859--Correspondence. » More like this Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826--Correspondence. » More like this Morse, Lucretia Pickering Walker, d. 1825--Correspondence. » More like this Morse, Sidney E. (Sidney Edwards), 1794-1871--Correspondence. » More like this Rush, Richard, 1780-1859--Correspondence. » More like this Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872--Correspondence. » More like this Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828--Correspondence. » More like this West, Benjamin, 1738-1820--Correspondence. » More like this Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833--Correspondence. » More like this Abolitionists--United States. » More like this Anti-Catholicism. » More like this Architecture--Europe. » More like this Architecture--Italy. » More like this Art--Study and teaching--Great Britain--19th century. » More like this Art, American. » More like this Art, British. » More like this Art, Italian. » More like this Art, European. » More like this Germans--United States. » More like this Immigrants--United States. » More like this Nativism. » More like this Patents law and legislation. » More like this Photography. » More like this Portrait painting, American--19th century. » More like this Slavery--United States. » More like this Telegraph--History. » More like this Telegraph--Patents. » More like this Europe--Description and travel. » More like this Great Britain--Description and travel. » More like this Italy--Description and travel. » More like this United States--History--War of 1812. » More like this Artists. Inventors.
Local shelving no.	0447M Oversize 0114M Oversize 1:9 Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 22,879) Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,610) Microfilm 16,372-35N-35P-35P Microfilm 6,295A-1N-1P
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
Links	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>