per Telegraph Operator
11 September 1880 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: CtHMTH, UCCL 01830)
Boilerplate telegram header omitted
the american union telegraph company is not to be liable for damages arising from any failure to transmit or deliver, or from any error in the transmission or delivery of, an unrepeated telegram, beyond the amount received for sending the same. but, to guard against errors, the company will repeat back any telegram, for an extra payment of one-half the regular rate, and in that case it is not to be liable for damages, beyond fifty times the amount received for sending and repeating the telegram.
the american union telegraph company is not to be liable in any case for damages, unless the same be claimed, in writing, within sixty days after the receipt of the telegram for transmission. and this company is not to be liable for the act or omission of any other company, but it will endeavor to forward this telegram over the lines of any other telegraph company, necessary to reaching its destination, but only as the agent of the sender and without liability therefor.
the american union telegraph company lessee of the dominion telegraph co. of canada, and connecting with the french atlantic cable.References
- Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn.
- 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, copy received, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.