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Morse traveled the world, stopping in particular in London and Paris among other locations, on his way back to the US from Japan in 1882-1883, during which time he saw many other Western collections of Japanese ceramics, thinking his own collection superior, and refusing offers to sell individual pieces from his collection, as he wished to keep it intact. He traveled to Europe again in 1887, as a perk of his position as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting again with numerous collectors and dealers, buying items with what little funds he had to fill in gaps in his collection.

Morse traveled the world, stopping in particular in London and Paris among other locations, on his way back to the US from Japan in 1882-1883, during which time he saw many other Western collections of Japanese ceramics, thinking his own collection superior, and refusing offers to sell individual pieces from his collection, as he wished to keep it intact. He traveled to Europe again in 1887, as a perk of his position as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting again with numerous collectors and dealers, buying items with what little funds he had to fill in gaps in his collection.

During both of his stays in Japan, Morse took extremely extensive notes and journals, the latter alone numbering as many as 3500 pages, from which selections were chosen and published - in two volumes of roughly 450 pages each - under the title ''Japan Day by Day'' in 1917. Morse also published a book entitled ''Japanese Homes and their Surroundings'' in 1885.

During his three stays in Japan, Morse took extremely extensive notes and journals, the latter alone numbering as many as 3500 pages, from which selections were chosen and published - in two volumes of roughly 450 pages each - under the title ''Japan Day by Day'' in 1917. Morse also published a book entitled ''Japanese Homes and their Surroundings'' in 1885.

For a number of years, the Museum of Fine Arts could not raise the money to purchase Morse's collection, and Morse could not afford to simply donate it. Finally, after fundraising efforts led by [[Denman Waldo Ross]] and others, in 1890-1892, the Museum purchased the collection of roughly 5,000 ceramic objects for $76,000. Morse was named Keeper of Japanese Pottery and was paid a small stipend (a gesture in light of the fact that the Museum did not pay the full $100,000 at which the collection was valued at the time); in 1901, after ten years of work, the Museum published a catalogue of the collection, written/compiled by Morse. Meanwhile, Morse's collection of roughly 30,000 Japanese objects of everyday material culture became the core of the Japanese collections at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

For a number of years, the Museum of Fine Arts could not raise the money to purchase Morse's collection, and Morse could not afford to simply donate it. Finally, after fundraising efforts led by [[Denman Waldo Ross]] and others, in 1890-1892, the Museum purchased the collection of roughly 5,000 ceramic objects for $76,000. Morse was named Keeper of Japanese Pottery and was paid a small stipend (a gesture in light of the fact that the Museum did not pay the full $100,000 at which the collection was valued at the time); in 1901, after ten years of work, the Museum published a catalogue of the collection, written/compiled by Morse. Meanwhile, Morse's collection of roughly 30,000 Japanese objects of everyday material culture became the core of the Japanese collections at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.