Samuel F.B. Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph
A two-volume edition of Samuel F. B. Morse's letters and journals, edited by his son Edward Lind Morse and published by Houghton Mifflin in Boston in 1914 for general readers and telegraph historians. Halftone plates reproduce Morse's oil portraits — dark-ground bust studies, oval formats, sitters in black coats and white stocks — plus diagrams of early telegraph apparatus.














