[Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals by Samuel F. B. Morse]@TWC D-Link bookSamuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals CHAPTER XXV 15/27
The prospects of future benefit from the invention are good, but I shall not probably realize much, or even anything, immediately. "I saw by the papers, before I got your letter, that Congress had not passed the appropriation bill for the Telegraph.
On some accounts I regret it, but it is only delayed, and it will probably be passed early in the winter." Little did he think, in his cheerful optimism, that nearly five long years must elapse before Congress should awaken to its great opportunity. "You will be glad to learn, my dear daughter, that your father's health was never so good, and probably before this reaches you he will be on the ocean on his return.
I think of leaving Paris in a very few days.
I am only waiting to show the Telegraph to the King, from whom I expect a message hourly.
The birth of a prince occupies the whole attention just how of the royal family and the court.
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