per Telegraph Operator
14 October 1880 • Boston, Mass. (MS, copy received: CtY-BR, UCCL 01841)
Boilerplate telegram header omitted
blank no. 1.
the western union telegraph company.
this company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.
errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of unrepeated messages.
this message is an unrepeated message and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.
a. r. brewer, sec’y. norvin green, president.
292
dated Boston Mass 14 188 0
received at Octo ″ 730
to Rev J H Twitchell
I want you to dine with us saturday half past five 5 and meet Col Fred Grant no ceremony ies Wear the same shirt you always wear
26 Paid u
read the notice at the top.
References
- Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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
- Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, Conn.
MS, copy received, Joseph H. Twichell Papers, CtY-BR.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Twichell evidently placed the original telegram in his journal. Twichell’s papers were passed on to his children. Although CtY received some items in 1951 from Joseph H. Twichell and Mrs. Charles Ives, his son and daughter, the main collection was donated in 1967 by Charles P. Twichell, his grandson.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.