Collection related to Dorothy G. Wayman's 1942 biography of Edward Sylvester Morse, 1854-1964 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Physical Description:30 folders in 1 box

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:181160057

Notes:

Includes typescript copies of Morse's letters to John Mead Gould of Portland, Maine, and Jeffries Wyman; a typescript copy of Morse's European-travel journal; typescript English translations of Japanese journal articles about Morse and Japanese zoology and culture, which Morse greatly influenced; the Japanese journals containing the original articles; and other Japanese materials collected by Dorothy G. Wayman

Folder 1. Summary list of materials, compiled by D.G. Wayman -- 2. Index cards for articles and publications, compiled by Naohide Yatsu for D.G. Wayman -- 3. List of Morse-related microfilm at Harvard University, May 1964 -- 4. Typescript copies of letters from Morse to John Mead Gould, 1854-1878 -- 5. Typescript copies of letters from Morse to Gould, 1878-1925 -- 6. Carbon copies of selected letters from folders 4 and 5, 1860-1925 -- 7. Morse's correspondence with and miscellanea of Jeffries Wyman, 1867-1872 -- 8. Typescript copy of Morse's journal of European travels, 1883-1889 -- 9. Typescript: "Dr. Morse and Miss Chapin" by Naokata Yamazaki, 1922 -- 10. Typescript: "Dr. Morse in his declining years" by K. Mizuno, 1926 -- 11. Typescripts: "On hearing of the death of Professor Morse" by Matajiro Yokoyama, 1926; and "The late Dr. Morse" by Chiyomatsu Ishikawa, 1926; also, the Japanese periodical containing the original versions, Kwagaku-Tisiki, v. 6, no. 2, 1926 -- 12. Typescript: "Professor Morse" by Chiyomatsu Ishikawa, 1929; also, 2 carbon copies, each of which has 3 additional leaves -- 13. Typescript: "'Japan day by day, ' posthumous work of Dr. Morse, to be translated into Japanese and published"; also, Kwagaku-Tisiki, v. 9, no. 11, 1929, which contains the Japanese original -- [continued]

Folder 14. Articles: "Professor Edward Sylvester Morse" by Chiyomatsu Ishikawa; and "Denkmal beim Muschelhaufen Ohmori zum Gedachtnis an Prof. Edward S. Morse" by Furst Kashiwa Ohyama; both in Sonderabdruck aus der Zeitschrift fur Praehistorie, 1930, which also has other Morse items -- 15. Typescript: "The children and grand-children of the late professor Edward S. Morse, benefactor in the fields of biology and zoology" by Tsunejiro Miyaoka, 1935 -- 16. Typescript: "Dr. Morse in the closing years of his life and my dead father" by Kin'ichi Ishikawa; also Kwagaku-Tisiki, v. 15. no. 10, 1935, containing the original -- 17. Typescripts: "Memories of my conversation with Dr. Morse one night" by Shigeto Hozumi; and "Fragmentary notes" by Kono Yasui; also Kwagaku-Tisiki, v. 15, no. 12, [ca. 1935], which contains the originals -- 18. Typescript: "Memories of Dr. E.S. Morse, who helped build 'Scientific Japan'" [unattributed] -- 19. Typescript: "The history of the Department of Zoology of the Science College, Tokyo, Imperial University" probably by Naohide Yatsu; also carbon copy and published version in a Japanese offprint or reprint -- 20. Autograph manuscripts: "History of the Morse Memorial Society" (1 leaf) and "Prof. M's footprints left to Japan" (1 leaf), both by Naohide Yatsu -- [continued]

Folder 21. Japanese newspaper article: Interview of Dorothy Wayman -- 22. Typescript (untitled) about history of Japanese educational system -- 23. Serial articles by Morse's student Kiichi Miyake -- 24. Japanese serial, with Japanese typescript pertaining to Morse -- 25-26. Miscellaneous Japanese publications -- 27. Japanese brochures and postcards -- 28-29. Japanese braille publications -- 30. Photostat of rare map of Tokyo, Japan, dated 1883, reproduced in 1939