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"I must here say that for weeks in Paris I had been engaged in negotiation with the Russian Counselor of State, the Baron Alexander de Meyendorff, arranging measures for putting the telegraph in operation in Russia. The terms of a contract had been mutually agreed upon, and all was concluded but the signature of the Emperor to legalize it.
Earl of Lincoln. Baron de Meyendorff. Russian contract. Return to London. Exhibition at the Earl of Lincoln's. Letter from secretary of Lord Campbell, Attorney-General. Coronation of Queen Victoria. Letters to daughter. Birth of the Count of Paris. Exhibition before the Institute of France. Arago; Baron Humboldt. Negotiations with the Government and Saint-Germain Railway. Reminiscences of Dr.
Before quoting from that letter, however, I shall give the following sentences from one to Baron Meyendorff, of March 18, 1840: "I have, since I returned to the United States, made several important improvements, which I regret my limited time will not permit me to describe or send you.... I have so changed the form of the apparatus, and condensed it into so small a compass, that you would scarcely know it for the same instrument which you saw in Paris."
An English gentleman, supping one night at the Russian ambassador's, complimented him upon his excellent ham. 'There's a member of our diplomatic corps here, replied Meyendorff, 'who supplies us all with hams from Yorkshire, of which county he is a native. Ward visited England.
Modern, vol. iii. p. 346. I am here assuming that the Magyars are not of the Turkish stock; vid. Gibbon and Pritchard. Vol. v. p. 248. P. 127, ed. 1817. Travels in Syria, vol. i. p. 369, ed. 1787. Hor. Epist. ii 1, 155. Supr. p. 26. Montesquieu. Murray. Caldecott's Baber. Vid. Quarterly Review, vol. lii. p. 396-7. Univ. Hist. mod. vol. v. p. 262, etc. Ibid. vol. iv. p. 353. Meyendorff. Moorcroft.
In this state of things I was hourly dreading to hear from the Russian Minister, and devising how I should save myself and the enterprise without implicating my associates in a charge of neglect; and as it has most fortunately happened for us all, the 10th of May has passed without the receipt of the promised advices, and I took advantage of this, and by the Liverpool steamer of the 18th wrote to the Baron Meyendorff, and to M. Amyot, that it was impossible to fulfill the engagement this season, since I had not received the promised advices in time to prepare."
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