He was a good friend of Morse's and an enthusiastic advocate of his invention.

He carried with him a complete telegraphic outfit and lost no opportunity to bring it to the notice of the different governments visited by him, and his official position gave him the entree everywhere.

Writing from Vienna on October 7, he says:-- "There is no doubt Morse's telegraph is the best of that description I have yet seen, but the difficulty of introducing it is in this circumstance, that every scientific man invents a similar thing and, without having the practical experience and practical arrangement which make Morse's so preferable, they will experiment a few miles' distance only, and no doubt it works; but, when they come to put it up at a great distance, then they will find that their experience is not sufficient, and must come back ultimately to Morse's plan.

The Austrian Government is much occupied selecting out of many plans (of telegraphs) one for her railroads.

I have offered Morse's and proposed experiments.