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 310
in the purest love, and dailystrengthening by all the motives which the ties of natureand, more especially, of religion, furnish. I found in dear Lucretia everything I could wish.Such ardor of affection, so uniform, so unaffected, Inever saw nor read of but in her. My fear with regardto the measure… … STUDY FOR PORTRAIT OF LAFAYETTENow in New York Public Library HIS ATTACHMENT TO HIS WIFE 269 greatest danger, and to be saved from this idolatry wasoften the subject of my earnest prayers. If I had desired anything in my dear Lucretia dif-ferent from what she was, it would have been that shehad…
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