Edwin Wilson Morse

His fellow-members were apt to run across Edwin Wilson Morse in the Century Library, of whose quiet and homelike atmosphere he was always fond, even before he became a member of the Board of Management and the very efficient chairman of its committee on literature. The work appealed to him and it was done, as he did all his work, with a quiet grasp of the situation and very little waste of nervous energy. Morse entered journalism as soon as he left college. Beginning with the New York Tribune in the city and musical departments, he subsequently became the New York correspondent of the Boston Evening Transcript, then musical editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser, and afterwards for many years was associated in important editorial work with the Scribner publishing house. Of even temperament and well-trained mind, he had at his command a wealth of knowledge acquired through his experience, and it was said that the “copy” from his desk was the most perfectly prepared of all that was received in the composing room. Wishing to carry out long-considered plans for original work, he eventially [sic] resigned from his editorial position and devoted himself to writing several works of history and biography which exhibited his qualities of accuracy and clearness of expression. An intimate friend of musical critics and literary men, he was in later years in constant attendance at the Century.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1925 Century Association Yearbook