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But don't bring any of Anson Morse's gang back in it with you. I've seen enough of them." "I'll not dad!" cried Tom as he trundled his motor-cycle out of the gate and into the country road that led to the village of Shopton, where he lived, and to Lanton, where the auction was to be held. The young inventor had not gone far before he turned back, leaving his machine standing on the side path.
It had been assigned to Inman, but, that artist having recently died, Morse's friends, artists and others, sent a petition to Congress urging the appointment of Morse in his place. Referring to this in a letter to his brother Sidney, dated March 28, he says: "In regard to the rotunda picture I learn that my friends are quite zealous, and it is not improbable that it may be given me to execute.
Henry was an extremely sensitive man and he paid no attention to Vail's letter, and sent only a curt acknowledgment of the receipt of Morse's.
Van Schaick's letter was written also in New York, on December 14, 1814: "To those passages of Dr. Morse's letter respecting his son, to which you have directed my attention, I hasten to reply without any form, because it will gratify me to relieve the anxiety of the parents of my friend. His religious and moral character is unexceptionally good.
A prophecy, shrewd in some particulars but rather faulty in others, of the influence of this new art upon painting, is contained in the following extracts from a letter of Morse's to his friend and master Washington Allston: "I had hoped to have seen you long ere this, but my many avocations have kept me constantly employed from morning till night.
The quantity required and the terms of payment are the inducement to offer it to thee at the exceeding low price here stated, which thou wilt please keep to thyself undivulged to other person, etc., etc." As iron tubing would not have answered Morse's purpose, this decorous solicitation was declined with thanks.
The grandfather of Morse was a member of the Colonial and State Legislatures, and his father, Jedediah Morse, D.D., was a well-known divine of his day, and the author of Morse's AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY, as well as a compiler of a UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER. His mother was Elizabeth Ann Breeze, apparently of Welsh extraction, and the grand-daughter of Samuel Finley, a distinguished President of the Princeton College.
A sudden swift passion shook her as his kisses lived warm again upon her face. That letter she would not write. But as she made this decision for the hundredth time that day, Morse's words recurred to her. Would she rather have Bobbie dead? Yes, if she were dead too. But life was so hard to part with! She was so strong. How many times she had prayed of late to die!
I have offered Morse's and proposed experiments. I am determined to stay for some time, to give them a chance of making up their minds."
Morse presides at Fourth of July dinner. Proposes toast to Lafayette. Letter to New York "Observer" on Fenimore Cooper. Also on pride in American citizenship. Works with Lafayette in behalf of Poles. Letter from Lafayette. Morse visits London before sailing for home. Sits to Leslie for head of Sterne Morse's life almost equally divided into two periods, artistic and scientific.
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