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Jun 1864, M26. Standing: SFB to “Rev. Dr. Hamill,” 4 Oct 1865, M28. Joy: SFB to Charles Morse, 17 Mar 1866, M28. Esteem: SFB to Charles Lind (copy), 5 Nov 1865, M28. It may have been/ Eyes: SFB to Nathaniel Jocelyn (copy), 20 Jan 1864, M28. Revived: SFB to “Messrs Durand, Ingham & others,” [Mar 1861], M29. Morse’s duties/ Heart: SFB to Daniel Huntington (copy), 26 Dec 1864, M28. Scarcely ten days/ See McKay, 199–201. Spending the summer/ Illiterate: See various letters of SFB in 1863–64, M28 and M29. Brains: SFB to William Goodrich, g Jul 1863, Jacob Eliot Family Papers, Yale University Library. Morse backed McClellan/ Devotion: SFB to A. G. Jennings (copy), 10 Aug 1864, M28. He looked ahead/ Dead: SFB to Edward Lind (copy), 19 Aug 1864, M28. Sealed: SFB to RM (copy), 7 Nov 1864, M28. Throne: SFB to RM (copy), 2g Oct 1864, M28. As the election/ Immortal: N.Y. Express, 5 Nov 1864. Mass: ELM, II, 430–31. The hoopla/ Augur: SFB to [unidentified] (copy), 3 Dec 1864, M28. Enemy: SFB to Charles L. Chaplain, 15 Dec 1864, M28. Morse grieved for/ Applauding: SFB to E. S. Salisbury, 11 Aug 1865, M21. But as Morse soon/ Dark: SFB to Mrs. C. W. Griswold, 22 Sep 1866, M21. Pupils: SFB to RM (copy), 6 Jun 1865, M28. Avoided: SFB to Charles Lind (copy), 25 Nov 1865, M28. A week or so/ Adding: SFB to H. L. Davis (copy), 11 May 1866, M28.

EIGHTEEN: VISIONS OF RECEDING GLORY

It refreshed Morse/ Portrait: SFB to Edward Lind, i Nov 1863, M29. Gewgaws: SFB to his brothers (draft), 18 Jul 1832, M6. The Abrahamic/ Weaned: SFB to RM (copy), 29 Apr 1864, M28. Morse had always/Centre: ELM, II, 454. Cleanest: SFB to John Thompson (copy), 4 Oct 1866, M30. Morse lent himself/ Comfort: SFB to SM (copy), 1 Oct 1866, M30. Morse enjoyed playing/ Evil: SFB to C. W. Griswold (copy), 8 Mar 1867, M30. Using the world/ Peaceable: SFB to Susan Morse (copy), 4 Feb 1867, M30. Indebted: SFB to “Cousin Mother,” [Jan 1867], M30. From Paris, Morse/ Nerves: SFB to Cyrus Field, 12 Mar 1867, M30. Excluded: SFB to SM, 4 Oct 1866, M25. As Morse had planned/ Powers: SFB to SM, 1 Dec 1867, XM. Morse took particular/ Branch: SFB to SM, 16 Aug 1866, XM. Despite the seductions/ Irons: SFB to SM (copy), 27 May 1867, M30. Much other time/ Slander: SFB to SM (copy), 31 Jul 1867, M30. Conclusion: M23, fr. 150. Infamous: see SFB’s annotations in his copy of the History of the Invention of the Electric Telegraph. Abridged from the Works of Lawrence Turnbull, M.D. (1853), Library of Congress. Morse labored to set/ Hands: SFB to Charles Morse (copy), 11 Jul 1868, M30. SFB conceded, however, that Steinheil invented a genuine telegraph—that is, an electromagnetic recording device—in 1836, independent of himself. The two men had stayed friendly over the years. Morse had plenty/ Spot: SFB to SM, 8 Jun 1867, M26. Epitome: ELM, II, 453. Lies: Mattelart, 123. On the Exposition see also Burchell, 123–38, and Levenstein, 90–91. Press reaction/ Supplant: M33, fr. 473. King: Moniteur, 5 Jun 1867. Cry: M22, fr. 243. Excellent photographs of several European adaptations of SFB’s apparatus appear in Bergen. Morse attended the award/ Original: SFB to Sidney Morse, Jr. (copy), 18 Jun 1867, M30. Some Hughes telegraphs were in service in France. Getting started on/ Load: SFB to SM, 31 Jul 1867, Library of Congress. Morse did return/ Exile: SFB to H. G. Ludlow (copy), 30 Mar 1867, M30. Steady: SFB to “Dear Mother” (copy), 27 Feb 1868, M30. Never: ELM, II, 464. Although more than a quarter/ Proof: M33, fr. 474. Emperor: N.Y. Herald, 18 Nov 1870. On SFB’s telegraph in China see Baark, 80 ff., and Headrick, 57. Morse’s globe-circling/ Express: Horace Baker to SFB, 27 Mar 1871, M23. Four months later/ Mental: RM to Richard C. Morse, 25 Sep 1856, Clements Library, University of Michigan. Valley: SFB to SM, 26 Sep 1868, M26. The political situation/ Prison: SFB to “Col. Leslie,” 2 Nov 1868, M30. Even occasions/ Affairs: N.Y. Times, 30 Dec 1868. See also the many newspaper clippings about the event in M34. But the regal blowout/ On Western Union and the government see Thompson and Lindley. Morse’s recollections/