You are all so scattered that there is no consultation, and I am under the necessity of attending to duties which will give me the means of living.
"The reason of its not being in operation is not _the fault of the invention_, nor is it _my neglect_.

My faith is not only unshaken in its _eventual adoption throughout the world_, but it is confirmed by every new discovery in the science of electricity." While the future looked dark and the present was darker still, Morse maintained a cheerful exterior, and was still able to write to his friends in a light and airy vein.

The following letter, dated September 30, 1840, was to a Mr.Levering in Paris:-- "Some time since (I believe nearly a year ago) I wrote you to procure for me two lenses and some plates for the Daguerreotype process, but have never heard from you nor had any intimation that my letter was ever received.

After waiting some months, I procured both lenses and plates here.

Now, if I knew how to scold at you, wouldn't I scold.
"Well, I recollect a story of a captain who was overloaded by a great many ladies of his acquaintance with orders to procure them various articles in India, just as he was about to sail thither, all which he promised to fulfill.