But is it not also among the "Century of the Marquis of Worcester's Inventions" ?--as is possible; the scarce volume is not near me for reference.

Let the curious reader who can, turn to it and see.
Meanwhile, how strangely Addison and Strada have anticipated the dial-plate, and the needles, and the letters, and the short forms for common words, all so familiar to our telegraphists.

Verily there is nothing new under the sun.
* * * * * Extract from my Archive-book, No.8.Date October 15, 1856.
"I was again an electric guest, this time at the Great Albion dinner (Liverpool) to Mr.Morse, whom I had met at Erith and in America.

A day or two afterwards I sent him a letter of invitation to Albury, enclosing the sonnet below; and not knowing his London address I posted it to my brother Charles in London for him to read and forward.

Lucky enough that I did so, for Mr.Morse had just sailed for America: so Charles had both prose and poetry telegraphed to him in New York,--and the Company would not charge any money for it! This is perhaps the only time a sonnet ever travelled by telegraph, and certainly the only time it ever so travelled gratis." Here it is, for which I had a very complimentary and grateful note from "Samuel F.B.Morse, as an ardent admirer," &c.