America, Asia and the Pacific: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection
from the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Unique manuscript material relating to Edward S Morse (1838-1925), much of which documents life in Japan before its Westernization. The collection is divided into twelve main series: Correspondence; Diaries; Scrapbooks; Natural History; Archaeology Field Work; Ethnology; Japanese Pottery; Lectures; Publications; Inventions; Materials Collected by Morse; and Financial Records.

Access: IP

ERC: Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn
Dates: 9.15.08 – 10.15.08