Samuel F.B. Morse; his letters and journals (1914)
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872, Morse, Edward Lind, 1857- · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 312
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 ill 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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