MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE (1791-1872). Autograph letter signed ("Sam:F:B:Morse") to Catherine Pattison, New York, 9 July 1837. 3 pages, 4to, 252 x 205 mm. (10 x 7.7/8 in.), address panel on p.4, small fold separations. THE TELEGRAPH "IS NEARLY READY TO BE PUT IN OPERATION" Morse apologizes for his delay in writing, due, he confesses, to "anxieties respecting my picture [painting], the study in hours of recreation to perfect my Telegraph, (which is nearly ready to be put in operation)," and "extraordinary cares of a family nature which the state of the times has created," This has compelled him to forego writing, even to his children (Morse was a widower). But he is confident of Catherine's indulgence for "I never found in you the least particle of that uncomfortable suspicion which...loses a friend from the unfounded fear that he may already be lost...You are precisely what I supposed you to be, when I first saw you, the same guileless, confiding, lovely girl..." He writes of his planned "sketching tour in the Land of the Pilgrims, to collect the materials historical & picturesuqe for my large picture," asks if she will visit Saratoga, and mentions a wedding he attended even though, he adds, "I find my company and my pleasure in my books and studies..."
MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE (1791-1872). Autograph letter signed ("Sam:F:B:Morse") to Catherine Pattison, New York, 9 July 1837. 3 pages, 4to, 252 x 205 mm. (10 x 7.7/8 in.), address panel on p.4, small fold separations. THE TELEGRAPH "IS NEARLY READY TO BE PUT IN OPERATION" Morse apologizes for his delay in writing, due, he confesses, to "anxieties respecting my picture [painting], the study in hours of recreation to perfect my Telegraph, (which is nearly ready to be put in operation)," and "extraordinary cares of a family nature which the state of the times has created," This has compelled him to forego writing, even to his children (Morse was a widower). But he is confident of Catherine's indulgence for "I never found in you the least particle of that uncomfortable suspicion which...loses a friend from the unfounded fear that he may already be lost...You are precisely what I supposed you to be, when I first saw you, the same guileless, confiding, lovely girl..." He writes of his planned "sketching tour in the Land of the Pilgrims, to collect the materials historical & picturesuqe for my large picture," asks if she will visit Saratoga, and mentions a wedding he attended even though, he adds, "I find my company and my pleasure in my books and studies..."
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