Birthday Watch: April 27th

Samuel Morse, b.1791. Mr. Morse was a painter and an inventor, and he developed both the telegraph system in the United States and the Morse code that was used in sending telegraphic messages, the primary language of telegraphy in the world.

Journalist and writer Maurice Baring, b. 1874. Baring was a close friend of Hillaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton. Has anyone read ony of the following works by Baring?
Passing By (1921) novel
The Puppet Show of Memory (1922) autobiography
C (1924), novel
Cat’s Cradle (1925) novel
Daphne Adeane (1926) novel
The Coat Without Seam (1929) novel
Robert Peckham (1930) historical novel
Have You Anything to Declare? – collection of notes and quotes
In My End is My Beginning – novel & biography about Mary Stuart

Ludwig Bemelmans, b.1898 “In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines… the smallest one was Madeline.”

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