Leslie and myself sleep in the same room and sleep armed with a pair of pistols and a sword and alarms at our doors and windows, so we are safe on that score....
"In my next I shall give you some account of politics here and as it respects America.

The Federalists are certainly wrong in very many things....
"P.S.

I wish you would keep my letter in which I enumerate all my friends, and when I say, 'Give my love to my friends,' imagine I write them all over, and distribute it out to all as you think I ought, always particularizing Miss Russell, my patroness, my brothers, relations, and Mr.Brown and Nancy [his old nurse].

This will save me time, ink, trouble, and paper." Concerning the portraits which Morse and Leslie were painting of each other, the following letter to Morse's mother, from a friend in Philadelphia and signed "R.W.

Snow," will be found interesting:-- MY DEAR FRIEND,--I have this moment received a letter from Miss Vaughan in London, dated February 20, 1812, and, knowing the passage below would be interesting to you, I transcribe it with pleasure, and add my very sincere wish that all your hopes may be realized.
"Dr.Morse's son is considered a young man of very promising talents by Mr.Allston and Mr.West and by those who have seen his paintings.