Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944

Collection Summary

Title	Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944
Inclusive Dates	1793-1944
Bulk Dates	1807-1872
ID No.	MSS33670
Creator	Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
Extent	10,070 items
Extent	74 containers plus 3 oversize
Extent	18.6 linear feet
Extent	36 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75033670
Summary	Artist and inventor. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers. Includes letters from Samuel Finley Breese 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; correspondence and other papers relating to Morse's invention of the telegraph, lawsuits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have invented the telegraph.
Online Content	Selected items from the papers of Samuel Finley Breese Morse are available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000013. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available.