Originaltext - Engelska - 'I wish in one instant I could tell you of my...

'I wish in one instant I could tell you of my safe arrival,but we are 3,000 miles apart and must wait four long weeks to hear from each other.'samuel morse was twenty when he wrote this sentence in a letter to his mother in 1811.he was in london,in UK,studying art.she was at charlestown,massachusetts home,in the US,where he had been born.Perhaps it was at the moment of writing the letter that young Morse first became aware of desire to bridge space with flying words.