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Rare Books
Samuel Finley Breese Morse : three letters written while he was inventing his electromagnetic telegraph
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Two of the letters are written to Congressman John B. Aycrigg. In these letters, Morse is talking about the telegraph and is requesting assistance in getting his brother Sidney Morse permission to use a map. These letters are dated 1843 and 1844. HM 79876-79877.
mssHM 79876-79878
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Manuscripts
New York. Written and signed by W. P. Jones by order of the President of the proposed American College in China.
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