[Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals by Samuel F. B. Morse]@TWC D-Link bookSamuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals CHAPTER XXXIII 28/32
The licentiousness of the press needed the rebuke which you have given it, and it feels it too despite its awkward attempts to brave it out. "I will say nothing of your 'Home as Found.' I will use the frankness to say that I wish you had not written it....
When in Paris last I several times passed 59 Rue St.Dominique.The gate stood invitingly open and I looked in, but did not see my old friends although everything else was present.
I felt as one might suppose another to feel on rising from his grave after a lapse of a century." An attack from another and an old quarter is referred to in a letter to his brother Sidney of July 10, also another instance of the unfairness of the press:-- "Dr.Jackson had the audacity to appear at Louisville by _affidavit_ against me.
My _counter-affidavit_, with his original letters, contradicting _in toto_ his statement, put him _hors de combat_.
Mr. Kendall says he was 'completely used up.' ...
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