per Telegraph Operator
6 January 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 00853)
blank no. 1.
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the western union telegraph company.
no.
75
the rules of this company require that all messages
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received for transmission shall be written on the
message blanks of the com-
pany, under and subject to the conditions
printed thereon, which conditions
have been agreed to by the sender of
the following message.
g. h. mumford, sec. t. t. eckert, gen. supt., new york. william orton, prest.
dated, Hartford 6 rec’d at 145 broadway,
to Whitelaw Reid Jan 6th. 1873.
Editor – Tribune –
Have mailed second & concluding paper1explanatory note
Mark Twain
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References
- United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 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 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).
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The Whitelaw Reid Papers (part of the Papers of the Reid Family) were donated to DLC between 1953 and 1957 by Helen Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.