I feel the pressure as well as others, and, having several pupils at the University, I must attend to them.

Nevertheless, I shall hold myself ready in case of need to go to Washington during the next session with it.

The one I was constructing is completed except the rotary batteries and the pen-and-ink apparatus, which I shall soon find time to add if required.
"Mr.Smith expects me in Portland, but I have not the means to visit him.
The telegraph of Wheatstone is going ahead in England, even with all its complications; so, I presume, is the one of Steinheil in Bavaria.

Whether ours is to be adopted depends on the Government or on a company, and the times are not favorable for the formation of a company.

Perhaps it is the part of wisdom to let the matter rest and watch for an opportunity when times look better, and which I hope will be soon." He gives freer vent to his disappointment in a letter to Mr.Smith, of November 20, 1839:-- "I feel the want of that sum which Congress ought to have appropriated two years ago to enable me to compete with my European rivals.