Captain Anderson wrote from the Great Eastern at Sheerness on March 2d:
“I hope you are keeping well and not sacrificing your health for even the Atlantic cable.”
After referring to some slight complications, he adds:
“But this will all come right, as you so often say, and surely we shall live to laugh at it yet. At least you ought to have your day of triumph, as you have had your long years of struggle.”
March 5th, Captain Moriarty wrote from H.M.S. Fox:
“I am as sanguine as even yourself in the practicability and almost certainty of raising the present cable, and feel all the more interested in it in consequence of the incredulity of naval men and others.”
Mr. Field gave a dinner at the Buckingham Palace Hotel on April 5th; the American minister, Mr. Adams, sat on his right, and the Earl of Caithness on his left. The Morning Star, in speaking of the dinner, said: “Mr. Field, with almost inspired fervor, spoke of the certainty with which it would soon be possible to speak between England and America in a minute of time.”
“Rochdale, March 26, ’66.
“My dear Mr. Field,—I shall not be in London before the 9th April, and therefore shall not be able to dine with you on the 5th, which I much regret.
“If you could come down here on your way to Liverpool, I should be very glad to see you. I expect to be at home till the end of the week.