CHAPTER XXVII.
APRIL 15, 1839--SEPTEMBER 30, 1840 Arrival in New York .-- Disappointment at finding nothing done by Congress or his associates .-- Letter to Professor Henry .-- Henry's reply .-- Correspondence with Daguerre .-- Experiments with Daguerreotypes.-Professor Draper .-- First group photograph of a college class .-- Failure of Russian contract .-- Mr.Chamberlain .-- Discouragement through lack of funds .-- No help from his associates .-- Improvements in telegraph made by Morse .-- Humorous letter.
Morse sailed from Europe on the Great Western on the 23d of March, 1889, and reached New York, after a Stormy passage, on the 15th of April.
Discouraged by his lack of success in establishing a line of telegraph in Europe on a paying basis, and yet encouraged by the enthusiasm shown by the scientists of the Old World, he hoped much from what he considered the superior enterprise of his own countrymen.

However, on this point he was doomed to bitter disappointment, and the next few years were destined to be the darkest through which he was to pass.
On the day after his arrival in New York he wrote to Mr.F.O.J.

Smith:-- "I take the first moment of rest from the fatigues of my boisterous voyage to apprise you of my arrival yesterday in the Great Western....

I am quite disappointed in finding nothing done by Congress, and nothing accomplished in the way of company.

I had hoped to find on my return some funds ready for prosecuting with vigor the enterprise, which I fear will suffer for the want.
"Think a moment of my situation.