BIB_ID
303483
Accession number
MA 901.4
Creator
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Display Date
1857 Oct. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters and a document by Samuel Finley Breese Morse. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record (MA 901) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from John Mullaly in 1905.
Summary
Referring him to that week's Observer, in which his controversy with Mr. Bright is played out; discussing his concern in the management of certain Chief Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph "on this side of the water," noting that "the great enterprize of uniting the whole world in Telegraphic bonds has always been one near my heart." Mentioning Cyrus Field.
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