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2g Dec 1833, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Fits: SFB to James Fenimore Cooper (typed transcript), 21 Feb 1833, M6. He decided not/ Beggar: SFB to DeWitt Bloodgood, 2g Dec 1833, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Perhaps to begin/ Property: George Clarke to SFB, g Aug 1834, M6. Morse’s domestic situation/ Unnatural: RM to SM, 19 Jul 1854, Y. The bequests provided $4500 for each child. Morse visited Susan/ Surprise: Susan Morse to SFB, 13 Oct 1834, M6. Haste: SFB to Susan Morse, 26 Sep 1836, M6. Morse still felt/ Wounds: SFB to P. Van Rensselaer (copy), 20 Jun 1835, M6. Forbidden: SFB to “Dear friend Mary,” 28 Apr 1837, M6. Fawn: SFB to Catherine Pattison, 22 Oct 1836, M6. Destiny: Catherine Pattison to SFB, 24 May 1837, M6. Morse found a more/ Laughed: Cooper, Letters and Journals, III, 228–29 Morse’s experience/ Invaded: Commercial Advertiser, 27 Apr 1833. Morse tried to show/ Antidote: SFB, unsigned article in Journal of’ Commerce, 14 Jan 1836. Morse’s encounter/ Communicants: N-YO, 2g Jun 1833. On anti-Catholicism see Billington. Morse deplored/ Outrage: SFB, Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States (1835), 182–83. The Pope, Morse/ Superadded: SFB, Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States (1835), 10. On the Leopold Foundation see Blied. At stake for America/ Support: Snyder, 382. Morse’s Foreign/ Unconsciously: SFB to A. S. Willington (draft), 13 Apr 1835, M6. Persuasion: SFB to J. R. Poinsett, 2 Jun 1835, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Morse soon began/ Document: SFB, The Proscribed German Student (1836), 19. Some of Clausing’s fellow/ On the Clausing war see 1836–37 items from the New Era and Brooklyn Advocate in SFB scrapbook, WU. A sort of male/ Overflows: M34, fr. 684 (MS version of the Confessions). America, in Morse’s/ Filthy: SFB, Foreign Conspiracy, 178. The discussion of immigration and nativism draws on Hershkowitz, Leonard, Pessen, and Scisco. Morse’s visceral/ Stomach: Strong, g4. Ocean: Hone, I, 209 Among the national/ Firebrand: SFB to the Marquis de Lafayette, 6 Aug 1833, Cornell University Library. On Garrison and O’Connell see Mayer, 161. Although the nativist groups professed to oppose all foreign influence, they singled out Irish Catholics especially, who in the 1830s made up about a third of all immigrants. See Knobel. In addition to his influential/ Insolence: SFB scrapbook, p. 23, WU. Ignorant: N-YO, 27 Dec 1834. In the spring of 1836/ Sacrifice: Mabee, 170. Morse quickly got/ Designing: Mabee, 171. Morse’s explanation/ Fellow: Cooper, Letters and Journals, III, 220. The beating Morse/ Outrage: unidentified newspaper clipping, 11 Mar 1837, SFB scrapbook, WU. Morse’s shift/ Fix: Cooper, Letters and Journals, V, 213. Powers: Allston, 364. Embody: Gree-nough, 179 But in addition/ Dagger: Allston, 428. On the later development of history painting see Burnham and Giese. But however behind/ Devoted: SFB to Senator Samuel Southard, 7 Mar 1834, Princeton University Library. But the signs/ Eminence: Cooper, Letters and Journals, III, 81. On the rotunda paintings see also Fryd, 42–61. For Morse, the decision/ Progress: Journal of Commerce, 21 Feb 1837. But Morse felt humiliated/ Offence: SFB to Washington Allston (draft), 21 Mar 1837, M6. On Adams’ dislike of JM see SFB to Senator Dix (draft), 7 Dec 1846, M10. Rejected beyond hope/ Key Stone: Thomas Cole to SFB, 14 Mar 1837, M6. But Morse felt battered/ Ill: Cooper, Letters and Journals, III, 259. Authorization: M33, fr. 638. See also clipping headed “Weary of Life,” Vail scrapbook, V. Morse’s near-collapse/ Noble: SFB to Washington Allston (draft), 21 Mar 1837, M6. See also Cummings, 144 ff. His depression lifting/ Constitution: see document of 17 Mar 1837, M6.

SEVEN: HIGH ATTRIBUTE OF UBIQUITY

In operation, then/ The account of SFB’s 1837 telegraph is based on many different sources, but chiefly the draft of the caveat he prepared in Oct 1837. See M6, fr. 373 ff. However crude/ Alluded: Journal of Commerce, 27 Apr 1837. Whatever dismay Morse/ Graphy: M33, fr. 366. On the Chappe system see Holzmann