isogynist, 99
studies law, 142, 223
different career, 142
and brothers, 142, ~2~, 269, 388
Boston _Recorder_, ~1~, 208
invention of pump, 211
New York _Observer_, 244
to father (1823) on M. at New York, 251
to R.C. Morse (1825) on same, 275
on M.'s talk on telegraph (1832), ~2~, 17, 18
assists M. financially, 25, 185
in Europe (1845), 249, 269
(1856), 349
as tortoise to M.'s hare, 388, 389
and Civil War, 416
monument to father, 421, 422
M. and death, 496
_Letters to M:_
(1813) on family interest, ~1~, 61
(1813) on poet and painter, 99, 117
_From M:_
(1805) on religion, 5
(1812) on an execution, progress, West, Van Rensselaer, 72
(1828) on near accident, 293
(1830) on Paris, letters for newspaper, 317
(1831) on meeting with Prince Radziwill, 386
on Greenough, Lafayette, Polish revolt, Paris mob, 407
on painting of Louvre, cholera in Paris, Lafayette on American
finances, 422
on Louvre painting, Cooper's character, American principles and
European criticism, 426
(1837) on illness, Vail portraits, telegraph, ~2~, 72
on exhibition of telegraph, 73
(1839) on projects in France, discouragement, 113
on daguerreotype, 129
(1843) on telegraph bill in Congress, 190-193, 195
(1843-44) on construction of experimental line, trials, Fisher,
Smith, 210-213, 216, 218
(1844) on success, reports of Democratic Convention, Smith, 228, 229,
233
on foreign inquiries, Congress and purchase, 243, 244
(1845) on France and telegraph, 255
(1846) on painting for Capitol, 268
on accident, 268
on progress of telegraph, Mexican War, Infringements, printing
telegraph, 269
(1847) on rivals, litigation, 275, 276, 282
on Smith, 280
on Poughkeepsie home, 280-282
(1848) on litigation, home, 283, 296
on engagement, 289
(1849) on Jackson's claim, newspaper hostility, 305
(1856) on social and telegraph affairs in England, 349
on experiences and honors on Continent, 351
(1857) on telegraphic affairs, slavery, 389
(1858) on family party in Europe, 397
(1859) on death of Vail, 400
on workings of Providence in his case, 403
on telegraph in Porto Rico, proposed Spanish cable, 404
(1867) on report of electrical exhibition at Paris, 454, 457, 460,
464
on fetes, 455
on plans for winter, Italy, Church and State, American po