per Telegraph Operator
30 October 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: CLjC, UCCL 01849)
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 170 norvin green, president.
6.32
dated Hartford Ct 30 188 0
received at 1227 broadway, cor. 30th street. Oct 30
to Frank Fuller
Ans Nx
I have no superstitions about sunday myself but I would not preside at a political meeting on sunday for it would be certain to injure the cause you must get a man whose religious reputation is better than mine
39 40 Collect a & C
☞this telegram has just been received at the office
in
1227 broadway, cor. 30th street,
where any reply should be
sent.
——
direct wires.
read the notice at the
top.
References
- The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, CLjC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
CLjC purchased the MS in July 1966 as part of a collection of Frank Fuller correspondence.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.