By him it was given to his friend, the Reverend E.Goodrich Smith, and by the latter presented to Yale University, where it now rests in the Fine Arts Building.
So ended the year 1842, a decade since the first conception of the telegraph on board the Sully, and it found the inventor making his last stand for recognition from that Government to which he had been so loyal, and upon which he wished to bestow a priceless gift.

With the dawn of the new year, a year destined to mark an epoch in the history of civilization, his flagging spirits were revived, and he entered with zest on what proved to be his final and successful struggle.
It passes belief that with so many ocular demonstrations of the practicability of the Morse telegraph, and with the reports of the success of other telegraphs abroad, the popular mind, as reflected in its representatives in Congress, should have remained so incredulous.

Morse had been led to hope that his bill was going to pass by acclamation, but in this he was rudely disappointed.

Still he had many warm friends who believed in him and his invention.

First and foremost should be mentioned his classmate, Henry L.Ellsworth, the Commissioner of Patents, at whose hospitable home the inventor stayed during some of these anxious days, and who, with his family, cheered him with encouraging words and help.
Among the members of Congress who were energetic in support of the bill especially worthy of mention are--Kennedy, of Maryland; Mason, of Ohio; Wallace, of Indiana; Ferris and Boardman, of New York; Holmes, of South Carolina; and Aycrigg, of New Jersey.
The alternating moods of hope and despair, through which the inventor passed during the next few weeks, are best pictured forth by himself in brief extracts from letters to his brother Sidney:-- "_January 6, 1843._ I sent you a copy of the Report on the Telegraph a day or two since.