“At all the custom-houses and in all the railroad depots I found my name a passport.  My luggage was passed with only the form of an examination, and although I had taken second-class tickets for my party of four, yet the inspectors put us into first-class carriages and gave orders to the conductors to put no one in with us without our permission.  I cannot enumerate all the attentions we have received.

“At Hamburg we were delighted, not only with its splendor and cleanliness, but having made known to Mrs. Lind (widow of Edward’s brother Henry) that we were in Hamburg, we received the most hearty welcome, passed the day at her house and rode out in the environs.  At dinner a few friends were invited to meet us.  Mr. Overman, a distant connection of the Linds, was very anxious for me to stay a few days, hinting that, if I would consent, the authorities and dignitaries of Hamburg would show me some mark of respect, for my name was well known to them.  I was obliged to decline as I am anxious to be in St. Petersburg before the Emperor is engaged in his coronation preparations.”

While in Denmark Morse was granted a private interview with the king at his castle of Frederiksborg, whither he was accompanied by Captain Raasloff:—­

“After a few minutes the captain was called into the presence of the king, and in a few minutes more I was requested to go into the audience-chamber and was introduced by the captain to Frederick VII, King of Denmark.  The king received me standing and very courteously.  He is a man of middle stature, thick-set, and resembles more in the features of his face the busts and pictures of Christian IV than those of any of his predecessors, judging as I did from the numerous busts and portraits of the Kings of Denmark which adorn the city palace and the Castle of Frederiksborg.  The king expressed his pleasure at seeing the inventor of the Telegraph, and regretted he could not speak English as he wished to ask me many questions.  He thanked me, he said, for the beautiful instrument I had sent him; told me that a telegraph line was now in progress from the castle to his royal residence in Copenhagen; that when it was completed he had decided on using my instrument, which I had given him, in his own private apartments.  He then spoke of the invention as a most wonderful achievement, and wished me to inform him how I came to invent it.  I accordingly in a few words gave him the early history of it, to which he listened most attentively and thanked me, expressing himself highly gratified.  After a few minutes more of conversation of the same character, the king shook me warmly by the hand and we took our leave....