
          I am gratified with what you
say in regard to the Morse reports and
will send you by mail a few copies
of the article in a separate form. I intend
to have the articles reprinted in better
style and [stereotyped?] for general description
but I have been waiting for
the appearance of Morse's reply. If this
should appear I will then publish
as an appendix any remark on his
pamphlet. If he chooses to let the
matter rest as it is I shall do nothing
more, but if he makes another attack
I shall then endeavour to place him
before the world in a true light; which
will I think be worse that the one in
which he now stands. I have been
furnished, almost Providentially, with evidence
to support my testimony as to the meeting
in the Patent Office which will tend to show
the willful and malicious manner in which
he has perverted the truth in order to destroy
my credibility as a witness. The only excuse
I can make for him in this matter is that 
        