I long for the time when I shall be able to travel with improvement to myself and society, and hope it will be in your power to assist me.
"I have a very ardent desire of travelling, but I consider that an education is indispensable to me and I mean to apply myself with all diligence for that purpose.

_Diligentia vinrit omnia_ is my maxim and I shall endeavor to follow it....

I shall be employed in the vacation in the Philosophical Chamber with Mr.Dwight, who is going to perform a number of experiments in _Electricity_." It is, of course, only a curious coincidence that these two sentences should have occurred in the same letter, but it was when travelling, many years afterwards, that the first idea of the electric telegraph found lodgment in his brain, and this certainly resulted in improvement to himself and society.
In February, 1809, he writes: "My studies are at present Optics in Philosophy, Dialling, Homer, beside disputing, composing, attending lectures etc.etc., all which I find very interesting and especially Mr.
Day's lectures who is now lecturing on _Electricity_." Young Morse's thoughts seem to have been gradually focusing on the two subjects to which he afterwards devoted his life, for in a letter of March 8, 1809, he says: "Mr.Day's lectures are very interesting.

They are upon Electricity.

He has given us some very fine experiments.