MORSE, SAMUEL F.B. Autograph letter signed ("Sam. F.B. Morse") to Mary Pattison, New York, 14 September 1836. 3 pages, 4to, integral address panel (seal hole). Morse, as promised, sends a transcript of a poem he had written a few years ago, in an album. It begins: "What is life but an Album fair, Outwardly deck'd with gilding rare, With many leaves of white within, Where virtue writes, but oft'ner sin," and closes: "From Sin's dark blots, and folly's stain, A purest volume shall remain, And rest, to Grace a splendid prize, In Heaven's alcoves in the skies." He notes that "the moral is better than the Poetry, you may destroy if you will the latter, but cherish the former." In a postscript Morse transcribes another poem entitled "Farewell."