Meiji Japan

The Edward Sylvester Morse Papers (ca. 1858-1925, 40 cubic feet) were given to the Peabody Museum in 1926 and consist of 99 boxes of personal and professional papers including diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, manuscripts, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks, and teaching materials. The Phillips Library prepared a listing of the Morse collection comprising a biography, a scope and content note, a brief bibliography and a list of contents; the scope and content note is reproduced here. The Papers document the contributions made by Morse to the areas of malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history. The arrangement of the collection consists of fifteen series: Correspondence; Diaries; Scrapbooks; Natural History; Archaeology Field Work; Ethnology; Japanese Pottery; Lectures; Publications; Inventions; Materials Collected by Morse; Financial Records; Noise Abatement; Biographical and Personal; and Miscellaneous.