University Press 1835, 1855) Paul J. Staiti, Samuel F. B. Morse (Cambridge 1989). Lauretta Dimmick, Mythic Proportion: Bertel Thorvaldsen's Influence in America, Thorvaldsen: l'ambiente, l'influsso, il mito, ed. P. Kragelund and M. Nykjær, Rome 1991 (Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, Supplementum 18.), pp. 169–191. Samuel I. Prime, Life of S. F. B. Morse (New York, 1875) E. L. Morse (editor), his son, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, his Letters and Journals (two volumes, Boston, 1914) Andrew Wheen, DOT-DASH TO DOT.COM: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet (Springer, 2011) pp. 3–29 James D. Reid, The Telegraph in America: Its Founders, Promoters and Noted Men New York: Arno Press, 1974. Robert Luther Thompson, Wiring A Continent, The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States 1832–1866 Princeton University Press, 1947. External links Art and the empire city: New York, 1825–1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Morse (see index) Speech of Morse given at the National Academy of Design, 1840, regarding the daguerreotype Reminiscence by Morse regarding the early days of the daguerreotype Samuel Finley Brown Morse Papers, 1911–1969 (call number JL016; 42.5 linear ft.) are housed in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University Libraries Locust Grove (official site) Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library 1791 births 1872 deaths People from Charlestown, Boston 19th-century American painters 19th-century male artists American male painters American Civil War industrialists American people of English descent 19th-century American inventors Artists from Boston Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery American expatriates in France Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Commanders by Number of the Order of Isabella the Catholic American proslavery activists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the American Antiquarian Society Creators of writing systems Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog Knights of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Members of the American Philosophical Society Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Order of the Tower and Sword New York University faculty Phillips Academy alumni Yale College alumni American conspiracy theorists Critics of the Catholic Church American portrait painters Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty