Shakespeare says: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' You are now fairly launched on what I hope will prove to you another Pactolus.

_I pede fausto!_ "This has been but a melancholy year to me.

I have been ill with one complaint or another nearly the whole time; the last disorder the erysipelas, but this has now nearly disappeared.

I hope this letter will meet you as well in health as I take it you are now in spirits." Morse lost no time in replying:-- "I thank you, my dear sir, for your congratulations in regard to my telegraphic enterprise.

I hope I shall not disappoint the expectations of my friends.