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 418
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 CLIXTO:SPainted 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…
Telegraph
Internet Archive · New York Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
