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Decoy: N.Y. Herald, 30 Dec 1868 and 1 Jan 1869. Bennett argued that the telegraph was too powerful an instrument to be wielded by a monopoly, which could use it to rule the press and the country’s business in general. Whether Morse understood/ Advantage: SFB to AK, 19 Mar 1866, M28. Basket: SFB to SM, 25 Jan 1867, M30. Morse’s hefty report/ Task: SFB to W P. Blake (copy), 4 Feb 1869, M31. Disputed: SFB to RM (copy), 25 Mar 1867, M30. Morse’s claim, however/ Truth: SFB to A. S. Manton, 7 Apr 1862, M29. Opinion: SFB to David Burbank, 30 Mar 1860, M27. System: SFB to Denison Cheseboro, 22 Aug 185g, M27. Sound: SFB to Edwin F Reynolds, 22 Mar 1860, M27. Morse completed/ Implies: W. P. Blake to SFB, 5 Aug 1869, M23. Radical: W P. Blake to SFB, 21 Aug 1869, M23. Morse conceded/ Weakly: SFB to W P. Blake (draft), 8 Aug 1869, M23. Father: SFB to AK (draft), 16 Sep 1868, M30. In August, having/ Filthy: SFB to Arthur Morse (copy), 7 Apr 1867, M30. Rowdies: SFB to J. R. Leslie, 10 Sep 1868, M30. That August, Arthur/ Depressed: SFB to SM (copy), 14 Aug 1869, M31. Anxiety: SFB to William Morse (copy), 31 Dec 1869, M31. Secret: SFB to the Linds (copy), 17 Jan 1870, M31. Morse worried that/ Rinks: SFB to William Morse (copy), g Nov 1869, M31. Grief: SFB to William Morse (copy), 21 Feb 1870, M31. Strong: SFB to Adele Roch (copy), 17 Jul 1870, M31. In November 1869/ Marriage: Shoptaugh, 381. Kendall had been/ Skill: SFB to William Stickney (copy), 12 Nov 1869, M31. The record/ Arm: SFB to John Thompson, 3 Mar 1871, M23. Morse tried to keep/ Rouze: SFB to J. Scudder, 8 Jul 1868, NYU Archives, Bobst Library, New York University. Sunburnt: SFB to Arthur Morse (copy), 26 Jun 1868, M30; SFB to S. B. Bostwick, 22 Jan 1870, M31. For many years/ Venerable: M34, fr. 308. Manifested: SFB to the Linds (copy), 21 Jan 1871, M31. Western Union got/ Globe: ELM, II, 484. Bryant at first had been unwilling to speak, resentful of Morse’s Copperhead politics during the Civil War. Responses to Morse’s/ On the two statue ceremonies see accounts in ELM; Hearth and Home, 1 Jul 1871; Journal of the Telegraph, 15 Jun 1871; P; and Leila Morse Rummel, TS “Souvenirs of Samuel F. B. Morse,” Archives of American Art. From the beginning of commercial service, the industry had employed a few women as operators. Their number increased greatly during the Civil War, when they replaced male operators who entered the military. By 1870 there were some 350 women operators, about 4 percent of the total. See Jepsen. The tribute left Morse/ Strange: SFB to the Linds (copy), 14 Jun 1871, M31. Filled: Amanda Vail to John Horn, 6 Aug 1871, V-NYHS. Amanda Vail confronted/ See Amanda Vail’s MS account of her visit, 12 Jun 1871, V-NYHS, and the TS copy of her “My interview with Professor Morse,” V In two of Morse’s/ Projected: see F. O. J. Smith, History Getting Right on the Invention of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph [n.d.], 3. Frauds: HOR to L. W. Case, 12 Feb and g Nov 1872, V-NYHS. During the war HOR also edited a collection of antislavery tracts. Fog Smith needed/ Heartless: Gaffney, 488. Divided: FOJS to Amanda Vail, 2g Aug 1870, V-NYHS. Sordid: FOJS to L. W Case, 2 Oct 1871, V-NYHS. Vail was not through/ Gross: FOJS to L. W. Case, 18 Oct 1871, V-NYHS. Pedestal: FOJS, History Getting Right, 5. The results of this/ Spirit: SFB to Adiel Sharwood (copy), 3 Jan 1872, M31. Began: unidentified newspaper clipping headed “Professor Morse’s Funeral,” Box 16, Y It was in this/ Invented: M34, fr. 171. Spite: SFB to Leonard Gale, 25 Jan 1872, M31. Killed: Henry Rogers to Amanda Vail, 4 Apr 1873, V Guilty: FOJS to Amanda Vail, ígJul 1872, V-NYHS. In February/Vile: SFB to Aspinwall Hodge (copy), 26 Feb 1872, M31. See Great Industries, 1238–46. Case again and again/ See the correspondence between SFB and Case, M23. February brought another/ Retracted: M34, fr. 173. During the same few/ Welfare: SFB to Howard Parmele (copy), 29 Jan 1872, M31. Liquor: SFB to William Morse (copy), 28 Feb 1872, M31. Ill and besieged/ Screw: SFB to Charles Morse (copy), 11 Jul 1868, M30. Now, having given/Anxiety: