Serv't, JED.

MORSE.
In another letter of introduction, to whom I cannot say, as the address on the copy is lacking, the father says:-- "His parents had designed him for a different profession, but his inclination for the one he has chosen was so strong, and his talents for it, in the opinion of some good judges, so promising, that we thought it not proper to attempt to control his choice.
"In this country, young in the arts, there are few means of improvement.
These are to be found in their perfection only in older countries, and in none, perhaps, greater than in yours.

In compliance, therefore, with his earnest wishes and those of his friend and patron, Mr.Allston (with whom he goes to London), we have consented to make the sacrifice of feeling (not a small one), and a pecuniary exertion to the utmost of our ability, for the purpose of placing him under the best advantage of becoming eminent in his profession, in hope that he will consecrate his acquisitions to the glory of God and the best good of his fellow men." Morse arrived in New York on July 6, 1811, after a several days' journey from Charlestown which he describes as very terrible on account of the heat and dust.

People were dying from the heat in New York where the thermometer reached 98 deg.

in the shade.