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 30
fixed idea had, however, taken rootin Morses brain and obsessed him. He withdrew fromthe cabin and paced the deck, revolving in his mindthe various means by which the object sought could beattained. Soon his ideas were so far focused that hesought to give them expression on paper, and he drewfrom… … N. G 0 FIRST CONCEPTION OF TELEGRAPH 7 always carried with him, and rapidly jotted down insketches and words the ideas as they rushed from hisbrain. This original sketch-book was burned in a mys-terious fire which, some years later, during one of themany telegraph suits, destroyed many valuable…
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