166 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
it known to you, by the invention 
which I have just imparted, and which 
you will, through mere mortal, every¬ 
day, and common-place means, make 
known to the world, by the aid of 
to me hateful typography. I have 
absolved myself from the ban that 
kept me here imprisoned in this me¬ 
lancholy wildness. That your mission 
may be complete, and your office 
authentic, in the eyes of a suspicious 
and hardly-judging world, I now 
place in your hands the three all but 
sacred, cabalistic, and most efficient 
Vocabularies, by the means of which, 
though the tongue be mute, and the 
Cadmean art of written or printed 
