In writing of his negotiations with the Russian Government he mentions M. Amyot, “who has proposed also an Electric Telegraph, but upon seeing mine he could not restrain his gratification, and with his whole soul he is at work to forward it with all who have influence.  He is the right-hand man of the Baron Meyendorf, and he is exerting all his power to have the Russian Government adopt my Telegraph....  He is really a noble-minded man.  The baron told me he had a large soul, and I find he has.  I have no claim on him and yet he seems to take as much interest in my invention as if it were his own.  How different a conduct from Jackson’s!...  Every day is clearing away all the difficulties that prevent its adoption; the only difficulty that remains, it is universally said, is the protection of the wires from malevolent attack, and this can be prevented by proper police and secret and deep interment.  I have no doubt of its universal adoption; it may take time but it is certain.”

“Paris, March 2, 1839. By my last letter I informed you of the more favorable prospects of the telegraphic enterprise.  These prospects still continue, and I shall return with the gratifying reflection that, after all my anxieties, and labors, and privations, and your and my other associates’ expenditures and risks, we are all in a fair way of reaping the fruits of our toil.  The political troubles of France have been a hindrance hitherto to the attention of the Government to the Telegraph, but in the mean time I have gradually pushed forward the invention into the notice of the most influential individuals of France.  I had Colonel Lasalle, aide-de-camp to the king, and his lady to see the Telegraph a few days ago.  He promised that, without fail, it should be mentioned to the king.  You will be surprised to learn, after all the promises hitherto made by the Prefect of the Seine, Count Remberteau, and by various other officers of the Government, and after General Cass’s letter to the aide on service, four or five months since, requesting it might be brought to the notice of the king, that the king has not yet heard of it.  But so things go here.

“Such dereliction would destroy a man with us in a moment, but here there is a different standard (this, of course, entre nous)....  Among the numerous visitors that have thronged to see the Telegraph, there have been a great many of the principal English nobility.  Among them the Lord and Lady Aylmer, former Governor of Canada, Lord Elgin and son, the Celebrated preserver, not depredator (as he has been most slanderously called) of the Phidian Marbles.  Lord Elgin has been twice and expressed a great interest in the invention.  He brought with him yesterday the Earl of Lincoln, a young man of unassuming manners; he was delighted and gave me his card with a pressing invitation to call on him when I came to London.