Among these witnesses were Daniel Huntington, Hon.

Hamilton Fish, and Commodore Shubrick; and several of these gentlemen asserted that, at that early period, Morse confidently predicted that Europe and America would eventually be united by an electric wire.
The letters written by Morse during these critical years have become hopelessly dispersed, and but few have come into my possession.

His brothers were both in New York, so that there was no necessity of writing to them, and the letters written to others cannot, at this late day, be traced.

As he also, unfortunately, did not keep a journal, I must depend on the testimony of others, and on his own recollections in later years for a chronicle of his struggles.

The pencil copy of a letter written to a friend in Albany, on August 27, 1837, has, however, survived, and the following sentences will, I think, be found interesting:-- "Thanks to you, my dear C----, for the concern you express in regard to my health.