In his letter he said that he wished they could hear from each other in an instant.
"But three thousand miles are not passed over in an instant.
So we must wait four long weeks before we can hear from each other again."
Even then he longed for a telegraph.
In London he had the help of another great artist.
This was Benjamin West.
He, too, was an American.
Mr. Morse wished to become a student in the Royal Academy.
He had to make a drawing of Hercules.
Hercules, you know, was one of the heroes of early Greece.