(1845) on France and telegraph, 255
    (1846) on painting for Capitol, 268
    on accident, 268
    on progress of telegraph, Mexican War, Infringements, printing
      telegraph, 269
    (1847) on rivals, litigation, 275, 276, 282
    on Smith, 280
    on Poughkeepsie home, 280-282
    (1848) on litigation, home, 283, 296
    on engagement, 289
    (1849) on Jackson’s claim, newspaper hostility, 305
    (1856) on social and telegraph affairs in England, 349
    on experiences and honors on Continent, 351
    (1857) on telegraphic affairs, slavery, 389
    (1858) on family party in Europe, 397
    (1859) on death of Vail, 400
    on workings of Providence in his case, 403
    on telegraph in Porto Rico, proposed Spanish cable, 404
    (1867) on report of electrical exhibition at Paris, 454, 457, 460,
      464
    on fetes, 455
    on plans for winter, Italy, Church and State, American politics, 457
    on old age, 461
    (1869) on breaking leg, 481
Morse, S.E., Jr., from M. (1862) on monument to father, 2, 421
Morse, S.F.B.,
  early years, domestic life, and characteristics:
    birth, 1, 1
    parents, 1
    schooling, 3-8
    religious and moral attitude, 5, 18, 120, 212, 213, 296-298, 401, 438,
      2, 128, 160
    parental solicitude as to character, 1, 6-8, 11, 113, 121, 149, 154,
      158-163, 166, 182
    attitude toward parents, 9, 129, 133, 135, 142, 152
    travel to New Haven (1805), 9, 10
    start at Yale, room, 10
    expenses and debts at college, 10, 16, 17, 20
    drops a class, 11
    parental admonitions against college extravagances, 11, 12
    tenacity, 11
    desire for relaxation at college, 14
    routine there, 15
    on Montaigne’s Essays, 16
    desire to travel, 18
    interest in electrical experiments at college, 18
    portraits painted at college, 19, 20
    question of career, desires to become artist, apprenticed to
      bookseller, 21-24, 26
    continued interest in art, 24-26, 30
    art career decided upon, attitude and sacrifices of parents, 26, 29,
      31, 32, 82, 85, 116, 155
    college love affair, 28-30, 112
    on smuggling cigars, 45, 46
    on lotteries, 46, 2, 180, 181
    and theatres, 1, 72, 77, 78, 374-376, 399
    sincerity, 84
    interest in public affairs, 93
    frankness, enjoyment of controversy, 93
    reading, 102
    and coat of arms, 110, 2, 258
    appearance (1814), 1, 123
    writes a farce (1814), 129, 130
    and brothers, 142, 2, 269, 388
    industry, 1, 161, 162
    and Lucy Russell, 180
    buoyancy, 200, 235, 256, 284
    love affair and engagement, 202-210
    and fiancee, 212, 214
    on Universalists, 213