Passion Sunday at Rome (1830), 1, 343
Patent of telegraph, caveat, 2, 69
  specification, 89
  application in England, refusal, 92-98
  proposal of special act of Parliament, 95, 124, 126
  French, 103, 132
  issued in United States, 157
  for printing telegraph, 271
  infringements, 257, 271-273, 276, 277, 282-294, 316, 322
  extension of M.’s, 258, 322-326, 346, 347, 370
Patron, M. seeks (1814), 1, 134, 142, 155
Patterson, J.W., at memorial services to M., 2, 515
Patterson, R.M., and exhibition of telegraph, 2, 79, 80
Payne, J.H., Mrs. Morse on character, 1, 118
Peace, M. on telegraph and promotion, 2, 345, 462, 497
Peale, Rembrandt, and study of live figure, 2, 101
  and portrait of Lafayette, 261
  and origin of Academy of Design, 280
Peel, Lady Emily, at Peterhoff (1856), 2, 358
Peel, Sir Robert, at Peterhoff (1856), 2, 362
Pell, Capt. ——­, of the Sully (1832), 2, 3
  on conception of telegraph, 12
Perceval, Spencer, and American crisis (1812), 1, 67, 70
  assassination, 71
Perry, H.J., and proposed Spanish cable, 2, 405
Perry, M.C., to M. (1852) on telegraph instruments for Japanese
    expedition, 2, 317
Persiani, ——­, soiree, 1, 347
Peter, Saint, image in St. Peter’s at Rome, 1, 340
  feast day at Rome, 361
Peterhoff, M. on presentation to czar at, 2, 356-363
Philadelphia, West on, as future art centre, 1, 73
  exhibition of telegraph (1838), 2, 80
Phillips, Mrs. ——­, transatlantic voyage (1815), 1, 188
Phillips Andover Academy, M. at, 1, 3
Phillipsborn, ——­ von, and M. at Berlin, 2, 461, 482
  on telegraph and battle of Koeniggraetz, 463
Photography, M.’s early experiments, 1, 421, 2, 129
  See also Daguerreotype. 
Pickett, B.M., Morse statue, 2, 482
Pisa, M. at (1830), 2, 335
  Leaning Tower, 336
Pius VIII, at ceremonies in old age, 1, 339, 346, 363
  death, 376
Platoff, ——­, at London (1814), 1, 146, 147
Plattsburg, battle, 1, 150, 151
Poems by M. 1, 273, 2, 494-496
Poet, and painter, 1, 110, 117
Poinsett, J.R., and Art Academy at Charleston, 1, 235, 236
  and proposed Mexican minion (1823), 252, 253
Poland, revolt (1830), 1, 386-389
  Lafayette on revolt, 408, 431
  Paris and revolt, mob (1831), 409-411
  M.’s active interest, 430
Polk, J.K., presidential nomination reported by telegraph, 2, 224, 225
Pope, F.L., on Morse alphabet, 2, 76
Popes. See Gregory, Pius. 
Porteus, Beilby, from Jedediah Morse (1806) on disestablishment in
    Virginia, 1, 13
Porto Rico, M.’s visit (1858), 2, 399-400, 404, 406
  first telegraph line, 404