SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON
                           A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS
                 IN THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION COLLECTION
                          OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
                              Bradley E. Gernand

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress


                            Washington, D.C.  1995



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      The papers of Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976), naval
officer and historian, were deposited in the Library of Congress
by the Naval Historical Foundation in 1994 and converted to gift
in 1998.

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Samuel Eliot Morison is governed by the Copyright Law of the
United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).


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                    Linear feet of shelf space occupied:  3
                    Approximate number of items:         75



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                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE


      The papers of Samuel Eliot Morison span the years 1939-1972,
with the bulk of the material dated between 1942 and 1956. 
Journals kept during World War II and updated afterward relate to
the oceanic theaters of the war.  Some entries were written
during battles, and others record interviews with W. H. P.
Blandy, Andrew B. Cunningham, Royal E. Ingersoll, Harry Kelly,
Douglas MacArthur, Henry S. Moore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Raymond
A. Spruance, Harold R. Stark, Richmond K. Turner, and other
prominent wartime personalities.  Specific topics include the
battles of Casablanca, Guadalcanal, Kombangara, and Pearl Harbor
and operations Dragoon, Galvanic, Neptune, Overlord, and Torch. 
Notebooks compiled during Morison's research for his books are
arranged alphabetically by book title.  The journals are arranged
numerically by journal number.



                                CONTAINER LIST


Container Nos.   Contents

Box 1            Research notebooks
                    _The Caribbean as Columbus Saw It,_ ca. 1964,
                       _European Discovery of America_, ca. 1971,
                       and _Samuel De Champlain: Father of New
                       France_, ca. 1972
                    _Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848): the Urbane
                       Federalists_, ca. 1969 (2 folders)
                    _John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography_,
                       ca. 1959 (2 folders)

Box 2               _Old Bruin: Commodore Matthew C. Perry_,
                       ca. 1967 (4 folders)

Box 3            Journals
                    No. 1, Navigation book, _Buck_ (destroyer),
                       _Guinevere_ (unclassified miscellaneous
                       auxiliary), _Brooklyn_ (light cruiser),
                       _Washington_ (battleship), _Baltimore_ (heavy
                       cruiser), 1942-1943
                    No. 2, Outward passage in _Buck_ (destroyer) and
                       stay in British Isles, 30 June-17 July 1942
                    No. 3, _Brooklyn_ (light cruiser); Battle of
                       Casablanca, 12 Oct.-8 Nov. 1942

Box 4               No. 4, Battle of Casablanca, 8 Nov. 1942
                    No. 5, Diary; interviews re _Cole_ (destroyer)
                       and _Dallas_ (destroyer), 8-11 Nov. 1942
                    No. 6, _Brooklyn _(light cruiser); Torch
                       Operation, Oct.-Nov. 1942
                    No. 7, _Brooklyn_ (light cruiser); diary;
                       African expedition; events after 8 Nov. 1942
                    No. 8, Torch Operation, n.d.
                    No. 9, Diary, 1 Jan.-17 Oct. 1943
                    No. 10, Torch Operation; AFAF, 2-6 Mar. 1943
                    No. 11, Interviews with Franklin D. Roosevelt  
                       (pages 25-35, 95), 15 May-25 Sept. 1942
                    No. 12 (Pacific III), Espiritu Santo Island, New
                       Hebrides, Tulagi Island, Guadalcanal;
                       _Honolulu_ (light cruiser),
                       20 Apr.-10 May 1943

Box 5               No. 13 (Pacific IV), SoWestPac; AirSoPac;
                       Brisbane, Australia; amphibious operations
                       and air raids on Tulagi Island; central
                       Solomon Islands operations; Aleutian Islands;
                       Gilbert Islands; Marshall Islands, June
                       1942-Apr. 1944
                    No. 14 (Pacific V), Japanese information in
                       1943, Guadalcanal; _McCawley_ (transport);
                       interviews with Lieutenant-Colonel Griffith
                       of First Marine Raider Battalion, Tulagi
                       Island, and Harry Kelly and Richmond Kelly
                       Turner, ca. 1943
                    No. 15 (Pacific VI), Guadalcanal and central
                       Solomon Islands, May-July 1943
                    No. 16 (Pacific VII), Australasia; Milner Bay,
                       New Guinea, ca. 1943
                    No. 17 (Pacific VIII), Battle of Kombangara,
                       July 1943
                    No. 18 (Pacific IX), aboard _St. Louis_ (light
                       cruiser) and _Baltimore_ (heavy cruiser);
                       Pearl Harbor; Komandorski, ca. 1943
                    No. 19 (Pacific X); Pearl Harbor; Guadalcanal
                       and Palau, Oct.-Nov. 1943
                    No. 20 (Pacific XI), _Baltimore_ (heavy
                       cruiser); Galvanic, Nov. 1943
                    No. 21 (Pacific XII), 1943, Sept. 1942-Dec. 1943
                    No. 22 (Pacific XIII), Galvanic; Marshall
                       Islands raid; wit and wisdom of Ralph Parker,
                       ca. 1943

Box 6               No. 23, Antisubmarine warfare, Hooligan Navy,
                       ca. 1942
                    No. 24, Antisubmarine warfare, Murmansk, Russia,
                       1942
                    No. 25, Antisubmarine warfare, summary of enemy
                       activities in western Atlantic, July 1942
                       collusive sinkings; Battle of Casco Bay
                       (22 June 1942), June-July 1942
                    No. 26, Antisubmarine warfare, air attacks on
                       submarines, ca. 1942
                    No. 27, Antisubmarine warfare, organization of
                       Boston, Mass., anti-submarine warfare unit at
                       150 Causeway; war diary for June 1942,
                       ca. 1942
                    No. 28, Antisubmarine warfare, Boston, Mass.,
                       anti-submarine warfare unit; conversations
                       with Wilder D. Baker, ca. Aug. 1942
                    No. 29, Antisubmarine warfare, new methods,
                       gadgets, and procedures, 1942
                    No. 30, Antisubmarine warfare, accounts of
                       attacks of submarines and sinkings by surface
                       ships, 1942
                    No. 31, Antisubmarine warfare, data from First
                       Naval District reports, 1942
                    No. 32, Antisubmarine warfare, air attacks on
                       submarines, 1942
                    No. 33, Antisubmarine warfare, preliminary
                       report of Killer Hunt for enemy submarines,
                       10-14 June 1942
                    No. 34, Antisubmarine warfare, conversations,
                       Sept. 1942
                    No. 35, Antisubmarine warfare, summaries,
                       ca. 1942
                    No. 36, Antisubmarine warfare, convoys, ca. 1942
                    No. 37 (1944 Pacific 1), Gilbert Islands;
                       Galvanic; Marshall Islands; Savo Island, 1944
                    No. 38 (1944 Pacific 2), Pearl Harbor; Gilbert
                       Islands; Marshall Islands, 1944
                    No. 39 (1944 Pacific 3), _Montpelier_ (light
                       cruiser); Munda; Bougainville Island; start
                       of Saipan operations; Kwajalein Island, 1944
                    No. 40 (1944 Pacific 4), _Honolulu_ (light
                       cruiser) during Saipan operation;
                       Guadalcanal; Kula Gulf; Solomon Islands, 1944
                    No. 41 (1944 Pacific 5), Saipan operations;
                       story of Phelps (destroyer), 1944
                    No. 42 (1944 Atlantic 1), _Joseph E. Campbell_
                       (escortship); London, England; operation
                       Overlord, Nov.-Dec. 1944
                    No. 43 (1944 Atlantic 2), London, England;
                       Naples, Italy, Dec. 1944-Jan. 1945
                    No. 44 (1944 Atlantic 4), France,
                       Dec. 1944-Jan. 1945; May 1956
                    No. 45, Interview with Royal E. Ingersoll;
                       Battle of the Atlantic, ca. 1944
                    No. 46 (Gray Book), running estimate and summary
                       covering 7 Dec. 1941-31 May 1942 by Captain
                       Steele, ca. 1944

Box 7               No. 47, Joint Chiefs of Staff records; Marianas,
                       8 May 1943-22 June 1944
                    No. 48, Navigation notes, _Montpelier _(light
                       cruiser),_ Honolulu_ (light cruiser);
                       _Yorktown_ (aircraft carrier) action report;
                       Marianas operations
                    No. 49, Okinawa and Ryukyu operations,
                       14 Mar.-June 1945
                    No. 50 (1 Pacific 1945), western sea
                       frontier/Pearl Harbor/Ulithi/Ryukyu
                       operation, 1 Mar.-1 Apr. 1945
                    No. 51 (2 Pacific 1945), Ryukyu operation,
                       1-10 Apr. 1945
                    No. 52 (3 Pacific 1945), Ryukyu operation,     
                       11 Apr.-5 May 1945
                    No. 53 (4 Pacific 1945), Iwo Jima, ca. Apr. 1945
                    No. 54 (5 Pacific 1945), Okinawa, Apr. 1945
                    No. 55 (6 Pacific 1945), interview with W. H. P.
                       Blandy re Iwo Jima and Okinawa, 1 Jan. 1945
                    No. 56, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1945-June 1947

Box 8               No. 57, General wartime operations, ca. 1946
                    No. 58, Notes and final editions and corrections
                       to vol. 1 re Battle of the Atlantic, ca. 1946
                    No. 59 (Notebook 1), Washington, D.C., 1946
                    No. 60 (Notebook 2), Panama, Newport, R.I.,
                       Washington, D.C., re fleet exercises nos. 1
                       and 2 at Calebra (1934-1936) and Guam (1941);
                       Lieutenant General Crittenberger on Italian
                       campaign; Mrs. John F. Shafroth on Ernest J.
                       King; Midway; bombardment of Marcus Island;
                       last breakfast with Raymond Spruance,
                       1946-1947
                    No. 61, Notes and final editions and corrections
                       to vol. 8 re New Guinea and the Marianas,
                       Mar.-Aug. 1944; vol. 12 re Leyte, June
                       1944-Jan. 1945; vol. 13 re liberation of
                       Philippines, Luzon, Mindanao, and the
                       Visayas, 1944-1945, ca. 1952-1953
                    No. 62, Notes and final editions and corrections
                       to vol. 9 re Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio,
                       Italy, Jan. 1943-June 1944; notes on trip in
                       1953; interview with Andrew B. Cunningham of
                       the Royal Navy, 1953
                    No. 63 (Notebook 1), notes and final editions
                       and corrections to vol. 10 re end of the
                       Battle of the Atlantic, May 1945; interviews
                       on antisubmarine warfare with John P. W. Vest
                       and Jack Slessor, 1954
                    No. 64 (Notebook 2), notes and final editions
                       and corrections to vol. 10 re end of the
                       Battle of the Atlantic, May 1943-May 1945;
                       interviews with Dr. Salagar, Konteradmiral
                       Godt (Admiral Doneitz's operations officer),
                       Sir Henry Moore of the Royal Navy, Marshall
                       R. Greer, and Harold R. (Betty) Stark
                       manuscript, 1955
                    No. 65 (Notebook 1), operations Neptune and
                       Overlord, 1956
                    No. 66 (Notebook 2), operations Neptune and
                       Dragoon, 1956
                    No. 67, Notes and final editions and corrections
                       to vol. 12 re Leyte, June 1944-Jan. 1945;
                       vol. 13 re 1959 notes concerning liberation
                       of the Philippines, Luzon, Mindanao, and the
                       Visayas, 1944-1945; and vol. 14 re victory in
                       the Pacific, 1945, 1957
                    No. 68, Pensacola, Fla., and Lake Success, and
                       1950 notes at Pearl Harbor, Japan, and
                       Hiroshima, 1949-1950
                    No. 69, Tokyo book re interviews with Douglas
                       MacArthur, Admiral Toyoda, Toshikazu Kase
                       (member of Japanese foreign office), and Rear
                       Admiral Deyo re Yamato, 1950
                    No. 70, Visits to Jamaica, N.Y., and Columbus,
                       Ohio; Harry Truman, 1958-1960


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