Original manuscript, controversy with Charles D. Jackson regarding the...
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Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850
Once the potential suggested by Morse's 1844 success began to be realized, other rival systems soon would emerge, naturally claiming to provide better and faster communication. This poster advertises a forthcom... More
Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850
Once the potential suggested by Morse's 1844 success began to be realized, other rival systems soon would emerge, naturally claiming to provide better and faster communication. This poster advertises a forthcom... More
Bound clippings on the telegraph---1842-1861
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Bound volume---2 July 1793-2 December 1807
"I now write you again to inform you that Mama had a baby, but it was born dead & has just been buried, now you have three brothers & three sisters in heaven and I hope you & I will meet them there at our death... More
Bound volume---10 June-21 October 1844
With remarkable foresight, Morse, already keenly aware of the potential for misuse of the new communication medium, writes to his assistant in Washington. Only months after the telegraph has begun operation, Mo... More
Bound volume---10 June-21 October 1844
With remarkable foresight, Morse, already keenly aware of the potential for misuse of the new communication medium, writes to his assistant in Washington. Only months after the telegraph has begun operation, Mo... More
Bound volume---9 December 1823-9 February 1828
Morse's first wife, Lucretia, died suddenly at the young age of twenty-five on February 7, 1825. Morse was away in Washington, D.C., taking up a commission to paint the Marquis de Lafayette's portrait. His fath... More
Bound volume---9 December 1823-9 February 1828
Morse's first wife, Lucretia, died suddenly at the young age of twenty-five on February 7, 1825. Morse was away in Washington, D.C., taking up a commission to paint the Marquis de Lafayette's portrait. His fath... More
Letterbook---26 November 1863-22 July 1865
"I still have an Artist's heart, while deprived by long disuse of an artist's skill," Morse writes wistfully in this letter to his friend, Daniel Huntington, president of the National Academy of Design. Reminis... More
Bound volume---2 July 1793-2 December 1807
"I now write you again to inform you that Mama had a baby, but it was born dead & has just been buried, now you have three brothers & three sisters in heaven and I hope you & I will meet them there at our death... More
Bound volume---20 June 1842-12 September 1843
By 1842, funding from the U.S. Congress was essential if the now-impoverished Morse was to be able to build and prove his telegraph system. On February 23, 1843, his bill for appropriated funding passed in the ... More
Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850
Once the potential suggested by Morse's 1844 success began to be realized, other rival systems soon would emerge, naturally claiming to provide better and faster communication. This poster advertises a forthcom... More
Original manuscript, Confessions of a French Catholic Priest---1837
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Bound volume---28 November 1835-18 April 1838
During his work on the telegraph, Morse needed political help to obtain support from Congress as much as he required technical and financial assistance, and this formal agreement allowed him to achieve all thre... More
Reports
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Original manuscript, Confessions of a French Catholic Priest---1837
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