Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...was to return. Accordingly the next day we started for Concord, and arrived on Friday evening safe home again. "Lucretia wishes to spend this week with her friends, so that I shall return (Providence permitting) on this day week, and reach home by Tuesday noon, probably to dinner. We are both well and send a great deal of love to you all. Mr. and Mrs. Walker wish me to present their best respects to you. We had delightful weather for travelling, and got home just in season to escape Saturday's rain." CHAPTER XI NOVEMBER 19, 1818-MARCH 31, 1821. Morse and his wife go to Charleston, South Carolina.-Hospitably entertained and many portraits painted.-Congratulates Allston on his election to the Royal Academy.-Receives commission to paint President Monroe.-Trouble in the parish at Charlestown.-Morse urges his parents to leave and come to Charleston.-Letters of John A. Alston.-Return to the North.-Birth of his first child.-Dr. Morse and his family decide to move to New Haven.-Morse goes to Washington.-Paints the President under difficulties.-Hospitalities.-Death of his grandfather.-Dr. Morse appointed Indian Commissioner.-Marriage of Morse's future mother-in-law. -Charleston again.-Continued success.-Letters to Mrs. Ball.- Liberality of Mr. Alston.-Spends the summer in New Haven.-Returns to Charleston, but meets with poor success.-Assists in founding Academy of Arts, which has but a short life.-Goes North again. The young couple decided to spend the winter in Charleston, South Carolina, where Morse had won a reputation the previous winter as an excellent portrait-painter, and where much good business awaited him. The following letter was written to his parents: - SCHOONER TONTINE, AT ANCHOR OFF CHARLESTON LIGHTHOUSE, THURSDAY, November 19, 1818, 5 o'clock P.M. We have arrived thus far on our voyage safely through the kind protection of Providence. We have had a very rough passage attended with many dangers...