Dated “New York / Sept. 29 1865.” Single page, in ink, 4.75 x 7.5”, mounted on white card, 8 x 5.125”. Two slight, very light smudges at lower margin. Else VG, clean and entirely legible. Full 7-line text:

“With kind wishes for your/ success in life and/ happiness hereafter/ Y friend/ Sam^l F.B. Morse/ New York/ Sept. 29. 1865.”

Samuel F. B. Morse, 1791-1872, was an eminent portrait painter who became fascinated by the possibility of electric telegraphy in the 1820s and 30s, and who invented the single wire system that dominated the field, while inventing the famed “Morse Code.” His 1844 telegraphic line—“What hath God Wrought?”—transmitted from the Supreme Court building to the basement of the Capitol—has gone down in history. Superb autograph note, by one of America’ most noted inventors. In protective sleeve.  [jp]

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