After a liberal charter had been secured from the legislature of Newfoundland the following names were added to the list of incorporators: S.F.B.Morse, Robert W.Lowber, Wilson G.
Hunt, and John W.Brett.

Mr.Field then went to England and with characteristic energy soon enlisted the interest and capital of influential men, and the Atlantic Telegraph Company was organized to cooperate with the American company, and liberal pledges of assistance from the British Government were secured.

Similar pledges were obtained from the Congress of the United States, but, quite in line with former precedents, by a majority of only _one_ in the Senate.

Morse was appointed electrician of the American company and Faraday of the English company, and much technical correspondence followed between these two eminent scientists.
In the spring of 1855, Morse, in a letter to his friend and relative by marriage, Thomas R.Walker, of Utica, writes enthusiastically of the future: "Our _Atlantic line_ is in a fair way.

We have the governments and capitalists of Europe zealously and warmly engaged to carry it through.