To this Mr.Raymond courteously replies on November 22, 1852: "The columns of the 'Times' are entirely at your service for the purpose you mention, or, indeed, for almost any other.

The writer of the article you allude to was Dr.
Bettner, of Philadelphia." Morse answers on November 30:-- "I regret finding you absent; I wished to have had a few moments' conversation with you in relation to the allusion I made to Professor Henry.

If possible I wish to avoid any course which might weaken the influence for good of such a man as Henry.

I will forbear exposure to the last moment, and, in view of my duty as a Christian at least, I will give him an opportunity to explain to me in private.

If he refuses, then I shall feel it my duty to show how unfairly he has conducted himself in allowing his testimony to be used to my detriment.
"I write in haste, and will merely add that, to consummate these views, I shall for the present delay the article I had requested you to insert in your columns, and allow the various misrepresentations to remain yet a little longer unexposed, at the same time thanking you cordially for your courteous accordance of my request." A slight set-back was encountered by Morse and his associates at this time by the denial of an injunction against F.O.J.Smith, and, in a letter to Mr.Kendall of December 4, the long-suffering inventor exclaims:-- "F.O.J.