To
William A. Moffett
per Telegraph Operator
15 June 1858 • Memphis, Tenn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00015)
per Telegraph Operator
15 June 1858 • Memphis, Tenn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00015)
illinois & mississippi telegraph company
caton lines.
St Louis June 16 185 8 by telegraph from Memphis 15 185 to W A Moffett 168 Locust st
caton lines.
St Louis June 16 185 8 by telegraph from Memphis 15 185 to W A Moffett 168 Locust st
Henrys recovery is very doubtful 1explanatory note
Samℓ Clements
canceled in pencil:
5 w Ⓐemendationa • 50 & 110 Col 2explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
Henry Clemens was severely injured in the explosion of three or four of the Pennsylvania’s boilers at about 6:00 a.m. on 13 June 1858. He was brought to Memphis, about sixty miles upriver, with many of the other victims.
2
That is, five words at $.50 each, plus $1.10, collect. The line was canceled, presumably as a form of receipt, upon delivery and payment.
Emendations and Textual Notes
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 1: 1853–1866. Edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael B. Frank, and Kenneth M. Sanderson. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1988
MS telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator and presumably received by William Moffett, Moffett Collection, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L1 , 80.
see Moffett Collection, p. 462.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.