Note 834 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Morse’s letter to Babcock, editor of the American Mercury, bore date of October 4, 1799. It drew no further response from Babcock than a private epistle, calling upon Morse to refute the statements which had appeared in the Mercury, and promising that then the editor’s “man” would be produced. Cf. American Mercury, Nov. 7, 1799.