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1155 Broadway 28th Dec '68 Dear Dan, That obstinate Erysipela throws me again upon my back, & I relinquish the last hope of going to the dinner in honor of Morse. I should enjoy so much to see him receive his well earned laurels, & regret that I cannot add the "mite" of my presence. Do you tell him however why I am not bodily there; & that I rejoice in spirit at his glory & hope many years will glaze it into still greater brilliancy! Tell him I regard his picture now at the academy as the finest piece of scientific art which has been produced here; & that it seems a singularly happy coincident that it should