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Wash. May 24th 1844

Dear Sidney,
Could you not put a few facts in relation to the Telegraph into a popular shape for the Journal of Commerce? for example
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The experiment of the Telegraph on Prof. Morse's system which has excited such deep interest throughout the country, and which has been in process of establishment under the patronage of the General Government, between Washington & Baltimore, we are pleased to [[strikethrough]] know [[\strikethrough]] learn has been. completely successful. On Friday the 24th inst. the first sentence was transmitted from Washington to Baltimore, and under the following circumstances; While engaged during the last session in urging a consideration of his invention [[\strikethrough]] whereby [[??]] [[\strikethrough]] before Congress [[\strikethrough]] during the last [[illegible]] [[\strikethrough]] Prof. Morse learned [[\strikethrough]] from [[\strikethrough]] the news of the final passage of the bill first from the daughter of the distinguished Commissioner of Patents; Prof. Morse in return for the highly grateful news promised that the first Sentence sent by the Telegraph from Washn. to Baltimore should be indited by her. In fulfilment of his promise, he transmitted the following sentence letter for letter in one minute, and the same sentence was again received [[strikethrough]] it don't Washington [[\strikethrough]] From Baltimore in another minute; "What hath God Wrought?" Nothing could have been [[\strikethrough]] [??] [[\strikethrough]] more appropriate than this devout exclamation at such an event, when an [[illegible]] which creates such wonder, and about which there has been so much scepticism, is [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[\strikethrough]], taken from the land of visions, and becomes a reality. - The Baltimore terminus was, for a single day (the 24th inst.) at the upper depot, about a mile out of the city, from whence the sentence was transmitted. On the 25th. it was removed to the lower depot, and the same sentence again transmitted. The Baltimore Patriot of the 25th.