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 (1914)
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872, Morse, Edward Lind, 1857- · Boston Houghton Mifflin · leaf 294
iss, not understood asmeaning more than usual; the tears and sad farewellsof father, mother, wife, sister, family, friends; the des-olateness of every room as the parting glance is thrownon each familiar object, and farewell, farewell seemedwritten on the very walls, — all these things bear uponmy… … LUCRETIA PICKERING WALKER, WIFE OF S. F. B. MORSE, AND TWO CHILDREN Painted by Morse ROUGH JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON 255 hours ride in a luxurious Pullman, but was fraught withmany discomforts, delays, and even dangers. As an example of this I shall quote the first part ofa letter written by Morse from…
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