. Samuel Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. rtant connection with theinvention of the telegraph. On the same site now standsthe Morse Building, a pioneer sky-scraper now sadlydwarfed by its gigantic neighbors. The year 1823 was one of mingled discouragement andhope. Compelled to absent himself from home for longperiods in search of work, always hoping that in someplace he would find enough to do to warrant his bring-ing
. Samuel Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. rtant connection with theinvention of the telegraph. On the same site now standsthe Morse Building, a pioneer sky-scraper now sadlydwarfed by its gigantic neighbors. The year 1823 was one of mingled discouragement andhope. Compelled to absent himself from home for longperiods in search of work, always hoping that in someplace he would find enough to do to warrant his bring-ing his family and making for them a permanent home,his letters reflect his varying moods, but always withthe underlying conviction that Providence will yet orderall things for the best. The letters of the young wife arepathetic in their expressions of loneliness during the ab-sence of her husband, and yet of forced cheerfulness andsubmission to the will of God. On the 17th of March, 1823, another child was born,a son, who was named for his maternal grandfather,Charles Walker. The child was at first very delicate,and this added to the anxieties of the fond mother andfather, but he soon outgrew his childish
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