Morton's first farce, "My First Fit of the Gout", was produced in London in 1835. He was the author of several other one-act farces, including "My Husband's Ghost" (1836), "Chaos Is Come Again" (1838), "A Thumping Legacy" (1843), "Lend Me Five Shillings" (1846), "The Irish Tiger" (1846), "Done on Both Sides" (1847), "Who's My Husband?" (1847), "Going to the Derby" (1848), "Slasher and Crasher!" (1848), "Your Life's in Danger" (1848), "Where There's a Will There's a Way" (1849), "A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" (1849) "My Precious Betsy" (1850), "Sent to the Tower" (1850), "Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw" (1851), "The Woman I Adore!" (1852), "A Capital Match!" (1852), "Waiting for an Omnibus in the Lowther Arcade on a Rainy Day" (1854), "A Game of Romps" (1855), "How Stout You're Getting!" (1855), "The Rights and Wrongs of Women" (1856), "The Little Savage" (1858), "Wooing One's Wife" (1861), "Drawing Rooms, Second Floor, and Attics" (1864), "My Wife's Bonnet" (1865) and "A Day's Fishing" (1869).