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 32
s sounds almost prophetic in the light of futuredays. The following letter from the Reverend Mr. Wells isquaint and characteristic of the times: — My dear little Boy, — As a small testimony ofmy respect and obligation to your excellent Parentsand of my love to you, I send you with this six… … PHILLIPS, ANDOVER 8 and, by the time you grow up to be a Man, they willunder Papas wise management increase to double theirpresent number. With wishing you may never be inwant of such playthings and yet never too fond of them,I remain your affectionate friend, Wm. Wells. Medford, July 2, 1793.…
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