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 322
it.There are about one hundred acres. I pay for it $17,500. I am almost afraid to tell you of its beauties and ad-vantages. It is just such a place as in England could notbe purchased for double the number of pounds sterling.Its capabilities, as the landscape gardeners would say,are unequalled.… … LOCUST GROVE 281 north; the Hudson with its varieties of river craft,steamboats of all kinds, sloops, etc., constantly showinga varied scene. I will not enlarge. I am congratulated by all in hav-ing made an excellent purchase, and I find a mostdelightful neighborhood. Within a few miles…
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