Fame: see SFB to FOJS (copy), 28 Jan 183g, S. Chamberlain apparently also demonstrated SFB’s telegraph at the Royal Museum of Physics in Florence. But Morse was beginning/ Go-ahead: SFB to FOJS (copy), 28 Jan 183g, S. Supplant: SFB to FOJS, 13 Feb 183g, S. This depended, however/ Pretended: see N-YO, 2 Feb 1839 Deserve: SFB to Charles Jackson, 13 Feb 183g, M6. Far from retracting/ Pained: Mil, fr. 307–308. In reopening/ Tide: P, p. 389 Advertisements: SFB to FOJS, 13 Feb 183g, S. Toward the end of/ Author: SFB to FOJS, 21 Jan 183g, S. Meyendorff’s Czar/ Liberal: SFB, memo of interview with Baron Meyendorff, g Mar 183g, M7. Morse immediately booked/ Energies: SFB to FOJS, 22 Feb 183g, S. Daguerre’s invention competed/ Wonders: SFB to FOJS (copy), 2 Feb and 2 Mar 183g, S. On Daguerre see Gernsheim and Gernsheim. Morse was startled/ Delineation: P, pp. 400–402. Probably a few days/ Delay: ELM, II, 126. Morse was reluctant/ On the events that follow see SFB’s MS “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE:S “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE: “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE::FB’s MS “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE:S “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE: “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE::B’s MS “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE:S “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,” Y NINE: “History of proceedings in England to procure a Patent for my Telegraph,”
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Having been gone/ Nominal: ELM, II, 114. Farthing: SFB to FOJS, 16 Apr 183g, S. Morse wrote Henry/ Obviate: Joseph Henry to SFB, 6 May 183g, M7. On Henry see Coulson and Moyer. Morse expected to hear/ Czar: P, p. 400. While streamlining/ Suspense: SFB to Baron Meyendorff (draft), 31 Jul 183g, M7. The news finally/ Rejected: C. B. Amyot to SFB (copy), 11 Jun 183g, M18. Nothing: SFB to George Vail, 20 Aug 183g, V. Morse decided to/ Wisdom: SFB to AV, 4 Nov 183g, V-NYHS. Morse had kept/ Remarkable: see the various early texts on the Web site of The Daguerrian Society, . Defense: P, p. 407. Morse set to work/ Beat: Wood, 111. On the various claims of priority see 1871 letter from SFB in Philadelphia Photographer g, no. g7 (Jan 1872): 3–4; SFB to Fuller Walker, 14 Aug 1871, M31; Welling, 8 ff. At first Morse used/ Indifferent: Gernsheim and Gern-sheim, 129 On Daguerre’s procedures see Foresta and Wood. During January and February/ See SFB, “Memoranda of Daguerreotype,” M33. Morse was joined/ Accordance: P, p. 404. On Draper see Fleming. Morse and Draper/ Likenesses: N-YO, 18 Apr 1840; cf. Gouraud in Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot, 26 Mar 1840. Open: Philadelphia Photographerg, no. g7 (Jan 1872): 3–4. See also SFB to Edward L. Wilson, 18 Nov 1871, M31. Whoever did what/ Valuable: Welling, 21. How long Morse/ Sanguine: SM to RM, 2g Jan 1841, Y. Outdoor: SFB to W W Horsford, 20 Nov 1840, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In this letter SFB describes his lenses as “2 large achromatic 4 inches diameter, a plano convex, a double convex each 4 inches and a large double convex, 6 inches in diameter.” Morse worked hard/ Tied: P, pp. 425–26. Introducer: Mathew Brady to SFB, 15 Feb 1855, M17. Like all of Morse’s/ Daub: New-Yorker, 14 Dec 183g, 205. Ghost: Welling, 8. Morse disputed such/ See Root, 3go–g2. No honor, however/ On the SFB-Gouraud blowup recounted in this and the next four paragraphs see New York Evening Star, 2hj–2gFeb 1840; New York American, 24 Jun 1840; Journal of’Commerce, 2 and 8 Jul 1840; Abel Rendu to [unidentified attaché], 22 Jul 1840, M7; SFB to Abel Rendu, 27 Oct 1840, M7; SFB to Nathan Hale, [ca. Oct 1840], M7; and newspaper clippings in the Morse scrapbook, WU, 50 ff. Morse happened to meet/ Cautious: SFB to SM, 26Jun 1841, NEWYORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. GOVERNOR WILLIAM/ CONCERTED: