[Rarebooks] FS: TELEGRAPH: Samuel Morse Inscribes book to his cousin 9 days before marrying her STOP

[Charles Agvent]

  From our latest internet-only catalogue: Spring 2008 containing 77 
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  [MORSE,  Samuel  F.  B.]   TUPPER,  Martin  Farquhar.  PROVERBIAL
PHILOSOPHY:  A  BOOK OF THOUGHTS AND ARGUMENTS Signed by Samuel  Morse
to  his  cousin  a  week before he married her. New  York:  Wiley  and
Putnam  1847.  First  Edition.  Two parts bound in  one  small  octavo
volume  (5" x 7-3/8") in full black morocco; all edges gilt. INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED on the front flyleaf: "Miss Sarah Elizabeth  Griswold/from
her  affectionate  Cousin/Sam.  F. B. Morse/August  1st  1848."  Morse
married  his first wife, Lucretia Walker, on 29 September 1819 in  New
Hampshire;  she  died  in 1825 after the birth of their  third  child.
Morse  married  his second cousin, the deaf Sarah Elizabeth  Griswold,
twenty-six  years  his  junior, on 10 August 1848, or just  nine  days
after  inscribing  this  book. In addition to  being  an  accomplished
artist,  Morse  conceived  of the telegraph in  1832  and  developed a
working  model  by 1837, though interest was not great in it.  In  May
1844,  Morse  sent  his famous "What hath God wrought?"  message  from
Washington  to  Baltimore.  In  addition  Morse  published  the  first
American  description  of the daguerreotype in 1839 and became one  of
the  first  Americans  to make daguerreotypes in  the  United  States.
Light,  scattered  foxing;  extremities rubbed. Very  Good  or  better
                                                               $3500.00

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