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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