per Telegraph Operator
25 April 1882 • Arkansas City, Ark. (MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 02207)
Boilerplate telegram header omitted
form 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, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.
this is an unrepeated message, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.
thos. t. eckert, general manager. norvin green, president.
123
number sent by rec’d by check
153 GZ 20 pd Via Pine Bluff
received at 12 40
stamped, with day added by hand: western union tel. co. hartford, ct. apr25 1882 1882.
dated Arkansas City Ark.
to Hon Jno Russell Young
US minister to China
140 Washn
I send a thousand congratulations & add to them as many regrets that I can not be present
stamped: 3486
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, John Russell Young Papers, DLC.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Donated by Young’s third wife, May Dow Davids Young, their son, Gordon Russell Young, and Dorothy Mills Young, 1924-1967.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.