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21. Prime, Life of Morse, 407-408.

22. Current scholarship questions whether a copy of Daguerre's manual could have even been aboard the British Queen, see Harmant, "Daguerre's Manuel," 79-83, and Wood, Arrival of the Daguerreotype, 1-2.

23. Welling, Photography in America, 9.

24. Ibid.; see also West to editor of the New York Times, 10 February 1883.

25. Morse to Root, 10 February 1855.

26. Samuel F. B. Morse to Edward Wilson, 18 November 1871, Morse Papers; see also, Lossing, "Professor Morse," 585.

27. As quoted in Mabee, American Leonardo, 229.

28. Ibid.

29. Morse to Root, 10 February 1855.

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