The magazine of American history with notes and queries . apparently, of how, the next Sunday, they would impoverish the catalogueof names, by calling him Samuel Finley Breese Morse. The first andgeminal strand of an invention is the brain of the inventor; a part of 128 THE EARLY NEW YORK POST-OFFICE which it is, and out of which it comes, as the web of the spider issues fromitself. When I met Prof. Morse in Paris, in 1858, a commission of the dif-ferent governments was discussing what testimonial they should give propositions were rejected ; when he suggested, simply the sav-ing o
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . apparently, of how, the next Sunday, they would impoverish the catalogueof names, by calling him Samuel Finley Breese Morse. The first andgeminal strand of an invention is the brain of the inventor; a part of 128 THE EARLY NEW YORK POST-OFFICE which it is, and out of which it comes, as the web of the spider issues fromitself. When I met Prof. Morse in Paris, in 1858, a commission of the dif-ferent governments was discussing what testimonial they should give propositions were rejected ; when he suggested, simply the sav-ing of one year over the old post-road system of government adjourned for a fortnight to get the figures ; and then said it wastoo much, no government would give it, and gave him instead 400,000francs. He said to me, he did not expect to die rich, they kept him soconstantly in law ; and indeed, when he returned, his company claimedand (I believe) sued him for its share of the testimonial. Those who handle that massive tome, Websters Dictionaryâ
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