House and his associates are making most strenuous efforts to interfere and embarrass me by playing on the ignorance of the public and the natural timidity of capitalists.

I shall probably have to lay the law on him and make an example before my patent is confirmed in the minds of the public.

It is the course, I am told, of every substantial patent.

It has to undergo the ordeal of one trial in the courts....
"Although I thus write, you need have no fears that my operations will be seriously affected by any schemes of common letter printing telegraphs.

I have just filed a caveat for one which I have invented, which as far transcends in simplicity and efficiency any previous plan for the purpose, as my telegraph system is superior to the old visual telegraphs.
I will have it in operation by the time you return." Apropos of the attacks made upon him by would-be infringers, the following from a letter of his legal counsel, Daniel Lord, Esq., dated January 12, 1847, may not come amiss: "It ought to be a source of great satisfaction to you to have your invention stolen and counterfeited.
Think what an acknowledgment it is, and what a tribute to its merits." Referring to this in a letter to Mr.Lord of a later date, Morse answers: "The plot thickens all around me; I think a _denouement_ not far off.