Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
SCDIRB copy (barcode 39088020039509) is the gift of H.W. Lende, Jr. and has Lende accession number M-23.
SCDIRB copy has source: Mastronet Inc., Oak Park, IL, November 17, 2002.
SCDIRB copy is housed in an archival box together with other manuscripts from the H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection, filed in Dibner accession number order.
Summary:
Letter to Professor Silliman describing a successful test of Morse's telegraph system on 160 miles of wire.