- GLC#
- GLC04503.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 August 1844
- Author/Creator
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
- Title
- to Edward P. Fry
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 29 cm, Width: 17 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Regrets that he cannot yet give Fry an answer to his request because he cannot get in touch with all the other proprietors. Sends a paper Fry requested (not present), and states he has made an improvement in the telegraph machinery which will allow him to write at least 25 characters a minute. Informs that he has just completed experiments on running telegraph lines across rivers. Addressed to Fry in Philadelphia.
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