Both became eminent in after life, though, curiously enough, neither in the law nor in the ministry.

But we shall have occasion to treat more specifically of this later on.

The three brothers were devotedly attached to each other to the very end of their long lives, and were mutually helpful as their lives now diverged and now came together again.
The next letter from Morse to his parents, written on June 15, 1814, gives a further account of the great people who were at that time in London:-- "I expected at this time to have been in Bristol with Mr.and Mrs.
Allston, who are now there, but the great fetes in honor of the peace, and the visit of the allied sovereigns, have kept me in London till all is over.

There are now in London upward of twenty foreign princes; also the great Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia.

A week ago yesterday they arrived in town, and, contrary to expectation, came in a very private manner.