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A piece of the wire which formed a part of that original telegraph line [[insert]] which ran [[/insert]] from Mount Clare Depot, Baltimore to the Capitol at Washington, [[insert]] and [[/insert]] over which the message "What hath God wrought", was sent, by Prof. Morse, May 24, 1844, has been presented by Mrs Amanda Vail, widow of Alfred Vail, the associate of Professor Morse, who received and deciphered that historic message at the Baltimore end of the line. The original telegraphic instrument by which the message was sent has been in the collection for sometime.