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John Torrey Morse Papers

1857-1935

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Collection Summary

Biographical Sketch

Collection Description

Acquisition Information

Organization

Detailed Description of the Collection

Select Index to Major Correspondents

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Collection Summary

Creator:Morse, John Torrey, 1840-1937
Title:John Torrey Morse papers
Dates:1857-1935
Physical Description:3 boxes and 2 volumes
Call Number:Ms. N-563
Repository:Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org
Abstract:

This collection consists of the papers of editor and author John T. Morse, including correspondence from prominent scholars, writers, historians, and politicians about literary matters and scholarship, in particular the writing of biographies for the American Statesmen series, edited by Morse.

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Biographical Sketch

John Torrey Morse (1840-1937) was a lawyer, editor, and author. He served as co-editor of the International Review and editor of the American Statesmen series.

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Collection Description

This collection consists of the papers of John T. Morse, including correspondence from prominent scholars, writers, historians, and politicians about literary matters and scholarship, in particular the writing of biographies for the American Statesmen series. Correspondence with life-long friends and colleagues, including Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) and Thomas S. Perry, contains references to politics, World War I, and personal matters. The collection also includes scrapbooks of Morse's magazine articles, reviews, and essays published in the Boston Daily Advertiser (1868-1877) and other publications. Additional correspondents include James F. Rhodes, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles F. Adams (1835-1915), Henry Adams, Carl Schurz, Moorfield Storey, Albert J. Beveridge, William R. Thayer, and Lord Charnwood (1864-1945), with single letters from Booker T. Washington, A. B. Hart, and Samuel E. Morison. (For a list of the major correspondents, see the index.)

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Acquisition Information

Gift of Charlotte Morse (Dec. 1950, Jan. 1951) and Augustus Loring (Apr. 1968).

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Organization of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series:

I. Correspondence, 1859-1935
II. Writings, 1857-1930

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Detailed Description of the Collection

BoxFolderVolumeContents
I. Correspondence, 1859-1935
NOTE: See the Select Index of Major Correspondents for dates of letters by specific individuals.
Box 1Folder 1Undated
Box 1Folder 2-191859-1917
Box 2Folder 1-141918-1935
II. Writings, 1857-1930
Box 2Folder 15-16Loose articles and reviews, 1882-1930
Box 3Bound articles and reviews, 1857-1898
Vol. 1Scrapbook of articles, reviews, and essays by Morse published in the Boston Daily Advertiser and other publications, 1868-1871
Vol. 2Scrapbook of articles, reviews, and essays by Morse published in the Boston Daily Advertiser and other publications, as well as reviews of his work, 1872-1887

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Select Index to Major Correspondents

Listed below are the major correspondents represented in Series I of this collection, followed by the dates (and some subjects) of their correspondence. The column on the left indicates the box in which each particular item is located.

BoxContents
Adams, Charles Francis (1835-1915)
Box 1Letter (Kansas City) about making changes on Adams' manuscript, Wed. 15 [no month or year]
Box 1Letter (Lincoln, Mass.) about proof sheets and mutual friends, Sat. 4 Feb. [no year]
Box 1Letter (Boston) declining to write a biography of Daniel Webster, 6 May 1881
Box 1Letter (Boston) about writing an appendix on Adams' grandfather, 11 May 1881
Box 1Letter (Boston) sending galleys, 20 Oct. 1899
Box 1Letter (Boston) requesting a meeting, 30 Oct. 1899
Box 1Letter (Boston) about corrections and the publishers, 1 Dec. 1899
Box 1Letter (Boston) about responses to Adams' book on his father Charles Francis Adams, 8 May 1900
Box 1Letter (South Lincoln, Mass.) complimenting Morse on his ability to write biographical memoirs, in particular his recent one of Henry Lee, Sun. 9 [no month] 1906
Box 1Letter (Boston) about their portraits published in a recent catalog, 18 Oct. 1912
Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) agreeing to write a biography for the American Statesmen series, 9 Apr. 1881
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) with recommendations for writers of biographies for American Statesmen, 27 Apr. 1881
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about a writer for a biography of Daniel Webster and a "Congress of rejected members," 2 Mar. 1882
Box 1Letter (Beverly Farms, Mass.) asking to be released from his offer to write a biography of Aaron Burr, 6 Oct. 1882
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about getting a biographer for Patrick Henry and about Adams' book on John Randolph, 19 Nov. 1882
Box 1Letter (Beverly Farms, Mass.) about Adams' book on Aaron Burr, 26 Sep. 1883
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Frederic Bancroft and John Hay as possible authors of a biography of William Seward, 5 July 1890
Agassiz, Alexander (1835-1910)
Box 125 Apr. 1905
Arnold, Isaac Newton (1815-1884)
Box 13 Dec. 1883
Box 110 Dec. 1883
Bancroft, Frederic (1860-1945)
Box 130 Nov. 1889
Box 123 Jan. 1890
Box 131 Jan. 1890
Box 120 Apr. 1912
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah (1862-1927)
Box 21 June 1922
Box 221 Aug. 1924
Box 214 Sep. 1924
Box 221 Oct. 1924
Box 211 Nov. 1924
Box 230 Mar. 1925
Box 223 June 1925
Box 224 July 1925
Box 220 Aug. 1925
Box 230 Sep. 1925
Box 25 Oct. 1925
Box 213 Oct. 1925
Box 221 Oct. 1925
Box 215 Jan. 1926
Box 22 Feb. 1926
Box 226 May 1926
Box 216 June 1926
Box 214 July 1926
Box 210 Aug. 1926
Box 231 Aug. 1926
Box 224 Sep. 1926
Box 218 Oct. 1926
Box 212 Nov. 1926
Box 24 Jan. 1927
Box 227 Jan. 1927
Box 210 Feb. 1927
Box 222 Mar. 1927
Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron (1864-1945)
Box 226 Feb. 1918
Box 228 Feb. 1918
Box 23 Mar. 1918
Box 29 June 1918
Box 224 June 1918
Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Box 223 Mar. 1925
Emerson, Edward Waldo (1844-1930)
Box 112 Aug. 1907
Box 210 Jan. 1918
Fiske, John (1842-1901)
Box 129 Sep. 1883
Box 119 Nov. 1883
Box 11 July 1884
Box 123 Dec. 1884
Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831-1908)
Box 16 Apr. 1881
Box 113 Sep. 1893
Box 119 Jan. 1898
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence (1831-1902)
Box 1undated
Grant, Robert (1852-1940)
Box 29 Nov. 1930
Hackett, Frank Warren (1841-1926)
Box 11 Nov. 1910
Hart, Albert Bushnell (1854-1943)
Box 131 Jan. 1895
Hay, John (1838-1905)
Box 110 June 1890
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)
Box 113 Nov. 1895
Box 12 May 1896
Box 112 May 1896
Box 120 June 1899
Hosmer, James Kendall (1834-1927)
Box 127 Sep. 1885
Box 118 Oct. 1885
Box 122 Jan. 1887
Box 113 May 1891
Jay, John (1817-1894)
Box 125 Feb. 1889
Julian, George Washington (1817-1899)
Box 112 Nov. 1889
Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)
Box 1Letter (Nahant) regretting that Lodge has been unable to work on the Daniel Webster volume due to the beginning of a new campaign, 29 June [no year]
Box 1Letter (Boston) about Lodge's book on Alexander Hamilton being ready for press, 16 Jan. 1882
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Lodge's biography of George Washington, 20 Feb. 1889
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about revisions of Lodge's biography of George Washington, 25 Feb. 1889
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about a letter from Houghton Mifflin regarding Lodge's book on George Washington and about personal news, 26 Feb. 1889
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about revisions of Lodge's book on George Washington, 6 May 1889
Box 1Postcard (Washington, D.C.) about proof corrections, 10 May 1889
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Morse's book on Abraham Lincoln, 29 Apr. 1893
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Morse's book on Abraham Lincoln, 3 May 1893
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) suggesting Thomas Brackett Reed to write a biography of William R. H. Fessenden, 9 Sep. 1893
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) wondering if Morse received a previous letter, 20 Sep. 1893
Box 1Letter complimenting Morse on his biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 21 May 1896
Box 1Letter (Nahant) about Lodge's comments regarding Morse's book on Oliver Wendell Holmes, 4 July 1896
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the proposal to establish a lectureship in government at Harvard in honor of E. L. Godkin, 24 Feb. 1903
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the proposal to establish a lectureship in government at Harvard in honor of E. L. Godkin and about recent presidential appointments, 28 Feb. 1903
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) thanking Morse for his kind words in a previous letter, 8 July 1904
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) thanking Morse for photographs and regarding the progress of the campaign, 24 Aug. 1904
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) thanking Morse for his letter and a quote, 15 Sep. 1905
Box 1Letter (Nahant) asking for a donation for the state committee for the current campaign, 20 Oct. 1906
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) thanking Morse for his compliments on a recent interview and regarding states' rights, 12 Feb. 1907
Box 1Letter (Boston) thanking Morse for trying to visit twice and for Morse's sympathy on the death of Lodge's sister Lillie Lodge James, 15 May 1908
Box 1Letter (Boston) thanking Morse for his care and thought after the death of Lodge's sister Lillie, 3 June 1908
Box 1Letter (Boston) thanking Morse for his sympathy at the death of Lodge's son George Cabot Lodge, 31 Aug. 1909
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) thanking Morse for his support and regarding his recent re-election, 23 Jan. 1911
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about a personal favor done for Morse and about Lodge's article on the Burr/Hamilton feud, 6 Sep. 1911
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Roosevelt's proposed constitutional changes, the strike in Lawrence, and Lodge's recent speech in the Senate, 1 Mar. 1912
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Roosevelt, Wilson, and Taft as candidates and asking for a donation to maintain the Republican legislature in Massachusetts, 11 Oct. 1912
Box 1Letter (Nahant) about Massachusetts politics, 14 Oct. 1914
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about William H. Taft, other political news, and Charles F. Adams' recent book, 2 Mar. 1914
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the Mexican situation and John Lothrop Motley, 17 Mar. 1914
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Lodge's recent proposal for a bill to protect American ships from German capture, 28 Jan. 1915
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) thanking Morse for his support in Lodge's work against Woodrow Wilson, 4 Jan. 1916
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis for the Supreme Court and nominations for president, 16 Feb. 1916
Box 1Letter (Nahant) asking for a subscription to the national committee in a bid to defeat Woodrow Wilson for president, 31 Aug. 1916
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about current political news and the upcoming election, 5 Sep. 1916
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about President Wilson and his handling of the war and politics, 9 Jan. 1917
Box 1Letter (Nahant) about personal reminiscences and sorrow over the loss of family members, 23 Oct. 1917
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about U.S. and world politics, 7 Feb. 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about politics, the president, and the Fuel Administration, 19 Feb. 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about land ownership in Nahant, 8 May 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the present military situation, 16 May 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the situation in Europe, 3 June 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about German propaganda, 15 June 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the religious aspects of the war and the domestic economy, 26 June 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about demands for a treaty with Germany and the domestic economy, 11 Sep. 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about an unconditional surrender vs. compromise peace to end the war, 14 Oct. 1918
Box 2Letter (Nahant) thanking Morse for his help and regarding politics, 31 Oct. 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the situation abroad and the League of Nations, 25 Dec. 1918
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the situation abroad and the League of Nations, 20 Feb. 1919
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the League of Nations and Italy, 2 May 1919
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the League of Nations, 7 June 1919
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Wilson and the League of Nations, 18 Aug. 1919
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about nominations for president and the League of Nations, 2 Dec. 1919
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the defeat of Woodrow Wilson's plan for the League of Nations, Lodge's health, and personal matters, 23 Mar. 1920
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the proper pronunciation and spelling of a word in Shakespeare's Hamlet, 5 Apr. 1920
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about the proper pronunciation and spelling of a word in Shakespeare's Hamlet and political news, 24 Apr. 1920
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about President Harding's appointments, Lodge taking himself out of the running for secretary of state, politics, and Charles Dickens, 26 Jan. 1921
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about George B. McClellan Harvey as ambassador to Great Britain and about President Harding, 7 Apr. 1921
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Joe Grew and his position in Denmark, 11 Apr. 1921
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Joe Grew, George B. McClellan Harvey, and England, 20 Apr. 1921
Box 2Letter (Washington, D.C.) about a position for Van Ingen, Germany, and England's indebtedness, 5 May 1921
Box 2Letter about Lodge's hopes for the conference and Boston politics, 5 Dec. 1921
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (1856-1943)
Box 226 Dec. 1932
Lowell, Edward Jackson (1845-1894)
Box 119 July 1893
Lowell, John (1824-1897)
Box 113 May 1896
McCall, Samuel Walker (1851-1923)
Box 15 Oct. 1898
Box 13 Dec. 1898
Box 17 Jan. 1899
Box 115 Jan. 1899
Box 119 Jan. 1899
Box 17 Dec. 1901
Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829-1914)
Box 12 May 1896
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1887-1976)
Box 28 Feb. 1935
Morse, John Torrey (1840-1937)
NOTE: Listed here are Morse's letters to Thomas Sergeant Perry only.
Box 111 June 1914
Box 122 June 1914
Box 15 July 1914
Box 18 July 1914
Box 113 July 1914
Box 116 July 1914
Box 11 Aug. 1914
Box 13 Aug. 1914
Box 119 Aug. 1914
Box 123 Aug. 1914
Box 124 Aug. 1914
Box 129 Aug. 1914
Box 17 Sep. 1914
Box 18 Sep. 1914
Box 14 Oct. 1914
Box 16 Oct. 1914
Box 119 Oct. 1914
Box 120 June 1915
Box 115 July 1915
Box 118 July 1915
Box 121 July 1915
Box 128 July 1915
Box 130 July 1915
Box 15 Aug. 1915
Box 19 Aug. 1915
Box 115 Aug. 1915
Box 129 Aug. 1915
Box 16 Sep. 1915
Box 111 Sep. 1915
Box 123 Sep. 1915
Box 12 Oct. 1915
Box 113 June 1916
Box 12 July 1916
Box 19 July 1916
Box 117 July 1916
Box 130 July 1916
Box 16 Aug. 1916
Box 113 Aug. 1916
Box 115 Aug. 1916
Box 127 Aug. 1916
Box 12 Sep. 1916
Box 15 Sep. 1916
Box 114 Sep. 1916
Box 118 Sep. 1916
Box 124 Sep. 1916
Box 13 Oct. 1916
Box 19 Oct. 1916
Box 114 Oct. 1916
Box 116 Oct. 1916
Box 120 Oct. 1916
Box 118 June 1917
Box 125 June 1917
Box 18 July 1917 [2 letters]
Box 112 July 1917
Box 19 Aug. 1917
Box 112 Aug. 1917
Box 116 Aug. 1917
Box 119 Aug. 1917
Box 125 Aug. 1917
Box 12 Sep. 1917
Box 17 Sep. 1917
Box 117 Sep. 1917
Box 121 Sep. 1917
Box 230 June 1918
Box 221 July 1918
Box 223 Aug. 1918
Box 231 Aug. 1918
Box 28 Sep. 1918
Box 213 Sep. 1918
Box 218 Sep. 1918
Box 222 Sep. 1918
Box 225 Sep. 1918
Box 226 Sep. 1918
Box 26 Oct. 1918
Box 214 Oct. 1918
Box 223 Nov. 1918
Box 229 Dec. 1922
Box 27 Jan. 1923
Box 215 Jan. 1923
Box 220 Jan. 1923
Box 223 Jan. 1923
Box 29 Feb. 1923
Box 211 Feb. 1923
Box 216 Feb. 1923
Box 223 Feb. 1923
Box 23 Mar. 1923
Box 25 Mar. 1923
Box 29 Mar. 1923
Box 216 Aug. 1927
Page, Walter Hines (1855-1918)
Box 123 Feb. 1898
Perry, Bliss (1860-1954)
Box 213 Mar. 1930
Perry, Thomas Sergeant (1845-1928)
NOTE: Listed here are John Torrey Morse's letters to Perry only.
Box 111 June 1914
Box 122 June 1914
Box 15 July 1914
Box 18 July 1914
Box 113 July 1914
Box 116 July 1914
Box 11 Aug. 1914
Box 13 Aug. 1914
Box 119 Aug. 1914
Box 123 Aug. 1914
Box 124 Aug. 1914
Box 129 Aug. 1914
Box 17 Sep. 1914
Box 18 Sep. 1914
Box 14 Oct. 1914
Box 16 Oct. 1914
Box 119 Oct. 1914
Box 120 June 1915
Box 115 July 1915
Box 118 July 1915
Box 121 July 1915
Box 128 July 1915
Box 130 July 1915
Box 15 Aug. 1915
Box 19 Aug. 1915
Box 115 Aug. 1915
Box 129 Aug. 1915
Box 16 Sep. 1915
Box 111 Sep. 1915
Box 123 Sep. 1915
Box 12 Oct. 1915
Box 113 June 1916
Box 12 July 1916
Box 19 July 1916
Box 117 July 1916
Box 130 July 1916
Box 16 Aug. 1916
Box 113 Aug. 1916
Box 115 Aug. 1916
Box 127 Aug. 1916
Box 12 Sep. 1916
Box 15 Sep. 1916
Box 114 Sep. 1916
Box 118 Sep. 1916
Box 124 Sep. 1916
Box 13 Oct. 1916
Box 19 Oct. 1916
Box 114 Oct. 1916
Box 116 Oct. 1916
Box 120 Oct. 1916
Box 118 June 1917
Box 125 June 1917
Box 18 July 1917 [2 letters]
Box 112 July 1917
Box 19 Aug. 1917
Box 112 Aug. 1917
Box 116 Aug. 1917
Box 119 Aug. 1917
Box 125 Aug. 1917
Box 12 Sep. 1917
Box 17 Sep. 1917
Box 117 Sep. 1917
Box 121 Sep. 1917
Box 230 June 1918
Box 221 July 1918
Box 223 Aug. 1918
Box 231 Aug. 1918
Box 28 Sep. 1918
Box 213 Sep. 1918
Box 218 Sep. 1918
Box 222 Sep. 1918
Box 225 Sep. 1918
Box 226 Sep. 1918
Box 26 Oct. 1918
Box 214 Oct. 1918
Box 223 Nov. 1918
Box 229 Dec. 1922
Box 27 Jan. 1923
Box 215 Jan. 1923
Box 220 Jan. 1923
Box 223 Jan. 1923
Box 29 Feb. 1923
Box 211 Feb. 1923
Box 216 Feb. 1923
Box 223 Feb. 1923
Box 23 Mar. 1923
Box 25 Mar. 1923
Box 29 Mar. 1923
Box 216 Aug. 1927
Pierce, Edward Lillie (1829-1897)
Box 11 Nov. 1892
Box 13 Nov. 1892
Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927)
Box 1undated
Box 16 May 1893
Box 121 May 1893
Box 130 May 1893
Box 117 Mar. 1903
Box 116 Nov. 1904
Box 15 Jan. 1907
Box 121 June 1908
Box 15 May 1909
Box 110 May 1909
Box 17 Nov. 1911
Box 16 Jan. 1912
Box 122 May 1912
Box 120 Dec. 1914
Box 126 May 1915
Box 112 Feb. 1916
Box 119 Feb. 1916
Box 122 Mar. 1916
Box 116 Apr. 1916
Box 111 June 1916
Box 112 Aug. 1916
Box 121 Aug. 1916
Box 114 Jan. 1917
Box 21 Jan. 1918
Box 225 Jan. 1918
Box 231 Jan. 1918
Box 22 Mar. 1918
Box 229 Aug. 1918
Box 230 Oct. 1918
Box 22 Nov. 1918
Box 25 Jan. 1919
Box 25 Apr. 1919
Box 210 Feb. 1920
Box 225 June 1920
Box 215 July 1920
Box 221 July 1920
Box 213 Nov. 1920
Box 225 Nov. 1921
Box 226 Dec. 1921
Box 219 May 1922
Box 215 July 1922
Box 215 Mar. 1923
Box 211 Aug. 1923
Box 228 Oct. 1923
Box 226 Nov. 1924
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
Box 1Letter (Elkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota) about Roosevelt's work on the biography of Thomas Hart Benton, 7 July 1886
Box 1Letter (Elkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota) about Roosevelt's biography of Thomas Hart Benton being sent to the publisher, 9 Aug. 1886
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) about criticisms of Roosevelt's previous works and his work on Gouverneur Morris, 29 May 1887
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) asking if there will be biographies of John Jay and Benjamin Franklin in Morse's American Statesmen series, 7 June 1887
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) about Roosevelt's work on Morris and with suggestions for biographies of American statesmen, including John Jay, 22 June 1887
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) asking if there will be a biography of John Jay and, if not, offering to include a sketch in the biography of Gouverneur Morris, 28 June 1887
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) explaining how John Jay will be treated in Roosevelt's biography of Gouverneur Morris, 10 July 1887
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) about Roosevelt's completed biography of Gouverneur Morris, 11 Sep. 1887
Box 1Letter (Sagamore Hill) about Morse's corrections and revisions of Roosevelt's biography of Gouverneur Morris, 3 Nov. 1887
Box 1Letter (Medora, Dakota) about Morse's corrections and revisions of Roosevelt's biography of Gouverneur Morris, 28 Nov. 1887
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Roosevelt's visit to Henry Cabot Lodge and the preface for his book on Gouverneur Morris, 28 Jan. 1888
Box 1Letter (New York) about the galleys of Roosevelt's book on Gouverneur Morris, its preface, and the series as a whole, 2 Feb. 1888
Box 1Letter (New York) declining the opportunity to write a biography of Benjamin Franklin, 18 Mar. 1888
Box 1Letter (New York) encouraging Morse to include a biography of Benjamin Franklin in his series, 22 Mar. 1888
Box 1Letter (Washington, D.C.) about Whipple as a candidate for the Navy Department and about a preface for his biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart Benton, Jan. 1898
Schouler, James (1839-1920)
Box 11 Nov. 1916
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906)
Box 118 Mar. 1881
Box 123 Aug. 1881
Box 19 Jan. 1883
Box 17 Jan. 1885
Box 130 Apr. 1885
Box 121 May 1885
Box 128 Sep. 1885
Box 111 Oct. 1885
Box 117 Oct. 1885
Box 129 Jan. 1886
Box 129 June 1886
Box 112 Aug. 1886
Box 129 Aug. 1886
Box 16 Oct. 1886
Box 118 Oct. 1886
Box 123 Oct. 1886
Box 19 Nov. 1886
Box 113 Nov. 1886
Box 114 Nov. 1886
Box 119 Nov. 1886
Box 127 Dec. 1886
Box 13 Jan. 1887
Box 14 Jan. 1887
Box 110 Jan. 1887
Box 113 Jan. 1887
Box 114 Jan. 1887
Box 116 Jan. 1887
Box 117 Jan. 1887
Box 131 Jan. 1887
Box 110 Feb. 1887
Box 112 Feb. 1887
Box 118 Feb. 1887
Box 121 Feb. 1887
Box 122 Feb. 1887
Box 114 Mar. 1887
Box 119 Apr. 1887
Box 125 Apr. 1887
Box 127 Apr. 1887
Box 11 May 1887
Box 112 May 1887
Box 114 June 1888
Box 13 July 1888
Box 130 Sep. 1889
Sedgwick, Ellery (1872-1960)
Box 126 Mar. 1913
Box 131 Mar. 1913
Box 11916
Box 215 Nov. 1920
Seward, Frederick William (1830-1915)
Box 129 Dec. 1883
Shepard, Edward Morse (1850-1911)
Box 12 Apr. 1887
Box 15 Apr. 1887
Box 118 July 1887
Box 13 Oct. 1887
Box 112 Nov. 1887
Box 16 Dec. 1887
Box 119 Dec. 1887
Box 123 Jan. 1888
Box 124 Jan. 1888
Box 12 Apr. 1888
Box 117 June 1888
Stanwood, Edward (1841-1923)
Box 14 May 1893
Storey, Moorfield (1845-1929)
Box 1undated
Box 111 May 1899
Box 127 Nov. 1899
Box 19 Dec. 1899
Box 112 Dec. 1899
Box 18 Aug. 1900
Box 111 Aug. 1900
Box 118 Aug. 1900
Box 111 Aug. 1905
Sumner, William Graham (1840-1910)
Box 12 Aug. 1881
Box 114 Mar. 1882
Box 121 Mar. 1882
Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1857-1944)
Box 113 Sep. 1896
Thayer, William Roscoe (1859-1923)
Box 118 June 1905
Box 116 July 1905
Box 123 Aug. 1905
Box 130 June 1911
Box 18 July 1911
Box 19 Oct. 1911
Box 18 Jan. 1912
Box 119 Aug. 1913
Box 124 Sep. 1914
Box 113 Apr. 1915
Box 117 Dec. 1917
Box 28 Nov. 1918
Box 211 Nov. 1919
Tyler, Moses Coit (1835-1900)
Box 122 Jan. 1886
Box 123 Mar. 1887
Van Holst, Hermann (1841-1904)
Box 18 Dec. 1881
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Box 17 Dec. 1907
White, Richard Grant (1821-1885)
Box 17 Dec. 1882
Box 120 Sep. 1883
Box 121 Oct. 1883

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Preferred Citation

John Torrey Morse papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915.
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927.
Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron, 1864-1945.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant, 1845-1928.
Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.
Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929.
Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.

Subjects:
Authors, American.
Biographers.
Historians.
Politicians--United States--Biography.
Scrapbooks--1868-1877.
United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

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