on painting of House of Representatives, 240, 241
    (1823) on experiences at Albany, 245
    on failure at New York, Mexican mission, 251
    (1824) on Journey to Washington, 255
    on failure of mission, 256
    success at New York, 257
    (1825) on same, Lafayette portrait, Washington experiences, 259-265
Morse, R.C., birth, 1, 2
  at Phillips Andover, 5
  at Yale, 21, 22, 26
  to M. (1813) on war views, 118
  studies theology, 142
  different career, 142
  and brothers, 142, 2, 269, 388
  at Savannah (1818), 1, 220, 223
  goes to frontier with father (1820), 228
  New York Observer, 244
  from S.E.  Morse (1826) on M. at New York, 275
  marriage, 288, 298
  on M.’s talk on telegraph (1832), 2, 17
  assists M. financially, 25
  and Poughkeepsie place, 281
  from M. (1857) on withdrawal from cable company, 384
  and Civil War, 416
  monument to father, 421, 422
  from M. (1864) on supporting Lincoln, 429-432
  M. on death, 466
  For other letters from M. See Morse, S.E. 
Morse, S.E., birth, 1, 2
  at Phillips Andover, 5
  at Yale, 16, 21, 22
  plans for career, 66
  as misogynist, 99
  studies law, 142, 223
  different career, 142
  and brothers, 142, 2, 269, 388
  Boston Recorder, 1, 208
  invention of pump, 211
  New York Observer, 244
  to father (1823) on M. at New York, 251
  to R.C.  Morse (1825) on same, 275
  on M.’s talk on telegraph (1832), 2, 17, 18
  assists M. financially, 25, 185
  in Europe (1845), 249, 269
  (1856), 349
  as tortoise to M.’s hare, 388, 389
  and Civil War, 416
  monument to father, 421, 422
  M. and death, 496
  Letters to M:
    (1813) on family interest, 1, 61
    (1813) on poet and painter, 99, 117
  From M:
    (1805) on religion, 5
    (1812) on an execution, progress, West, Van Rensselaer, 72
    (1828) on near accident, 293
    (1830) on Paris, letters for newspaper, 317
    (1831) on meeting with Prince Radziwill, 386
    on Greenough, Lafayette, Polish revolt, Paris mob, 407
    on painting of Louvre, cholera in Paris, Lafayette on American
      finances, 422
    on Louvre painting, Cooper’s character, American principles and
      European criticism, 426
    (1837) on illness, Vail portraits, telegraph, 2, 72
    on exhibition of telegraph, 73
    (1839) on projects in France, discouragement, 113
    on daguerreotype, 129
    (1843) on telegraph bill in Congress, 190-193, 195
    (1843-44) on construction of experimental line, trials, Fisher,
      Smith, 210-213, 216, 218
    (1844) on success, reports of Democratic Convention, Smith, 228, 229,
      233
    on foreign inquiries, Congress and purchase, 243, 244