I will conclude by saying, that I feel grateful for the generous confidence which Congress has thus far extended toward me and my enterprise; and I will cheerfully afford any further and more detailed information on the subject of the telegraph, when desired, and will be prepared to make and execute any desirable arrangements for the extension of it that Congress shall require.
With great respect, your obedient servant,
SAM. F. B. MORSE,
Superintendent of Electro Magnetic Telegraph.
To the Hon. McClintock Young,
Secretary of the Treasury ad interim.
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from Professor Morse, relative to the Magnetic Telegraph, Dec’r 23, 1844.
Treasury Department, December 17, 1844.
Sir: In compliance with the request made in your letter of this date, in behalf of the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives, for information from this department upon the subject of “Morse’s telegraph,” I have the honour respectfully to transmit herewith a communication from Professor Morse, dated the 12th instant, containing specific information in regard to that work.
I have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,