wartime travel regulations (1811), 36
  condition of laboring classes, 36
  treatment of travellers, 37-39
  critical condition (1811), effect of American embargo, 39, 56, 57, 63
  dining hour, 40
  attitude toward art, 46
  unpopularity of Regent, crisis (1812), 67, 70, 71
  assassination of Perceval, 71
  Spanish victories (1813), 110
  severe winter (1813), 123
  economic depression (1815), 175
  Liverpool (1829), 302, 303
  stage-coach journey to London, 306-308
  peasantry, villages, 306
  Canterbury cathedral, church service, 310-312
  Dover, 313
  M. on social manners, 348
  refusal of patent to M., 2, 93-99, 124, 126
  coronation of Victoria, 100, 101
  use of M.’s telegraph, 367
  no share in gratuity to M., 393
  M. on, and Civil War, 420
  See also London, Napoleonic Wars, Neutral trade, War of 1812. 
English Channel, steamers (1829), 1, 314
  (1845), 2, 250
Erie, Lake, battle, 1, 151
Esterhasy, Prince, M. on, at Peterhoff (1856), 2, 358
Evarts, Jeremiah, to M. (1812) on avoiding politics, 1, 86
Evarts, W.M., at banquet to M., 2, 472
Evers, John, and origin of Academy of Design, 1, 280
Experimental line, bill for, in Congress, 2, 189-201
  route, 204
  M.’s assistants, 204-206, 210, 214
  wires, failure of underground, substitution of overhead, 205, 208-210,
    214-216
  trouble with Smith, 206, 207, 212, 213, 218
  progress, 219
  operation during construction, 219-221
  completion, “What hath God wrought” message, 221-224
  reports of Democratic Convention, 224-226
  cost of construction, 227
  incidents of utility, 227, 228
Fairman, Gideon, and study of live figure, 1, 101
Faraday, Michael, and Atlantic cable, 2, 343
Farewell message to telegraph, ceremony of sending M.’s, 2, 485-491
Farmer, M.G., and duplex telegraph, 2, 189
Farragut, D.G., and banquet to M., 2, 468
Faxton, T.S., from M. (1847) on salaries, 2, 274
Federalists, celebration of Fourth at Charlestown (1805), 1, 7
  British opinion (1812), 81
  See also War of 1812. 
Ferguson, ——­, travel with M. (1831), 1, 395, 402
Ferris, C.G., and telegraph, 2, 177, 186, 189
Field, ——­, pupil of M., 1, 258
Field, C.W., and consolidation of telegraph companies, 2, 341
  organisation of Atlantic cable company, 341-343
  from M. (1856) on experiments for cable, 348, 366
  Kendall’s distrust, 372
  and M.’s retirement from cable company, 385, 386
  from M. (1867) on a visit, success of cable, 450, 451
  banquet to M., 467, 469
  from M. (1871) on neutralizing telegraph, 497
  at M.’s funeral, 511
  at memorial service, 516
Field, D.D., and Atlantic cable, 2, 343
  at banquet to M., 473