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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 416

An illustration from 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, leaf 416
sses of all ages and sexes are here thrownin together to a depth of, perhaps, twenty feet, withoutcoffins, in heaps, most of them perfectly naked, and leftto corrupt in a mass, like the offal from a slaughter house.So disgusting a spectacle I never witnessed. There werein sight about twenty bodies,… … DE WITT CLINTONPainted by Morse. Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ITALIAN BEGGARS 369 offence, so I forbear. We were glad to turn away andretrace our steps to our carriage. Never, I believe, inany country, Christian or pagan, is there an instance ofsuch total want of respect for the…

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