To
James Redpath
per Telegraph Operator
13 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: Jacobs, UCCL 08722)
per Telegraph Operator
13 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: Jacobs, UCCL 08722)
blank no. 1.
863
the western union telegraph company.
the rules of this company require that all messages received
for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the company, under
and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed
to by the sender of the following message.
thos. t. eckert, gen’l sup’t,
18 new york. william orton, pres’t,
geo. h. mumford, sec’y, new york. 715 dated Hartford Ct 187 4 received at Mch 13 to James Redpath 36 Bromfield St Oh thunder & lightning Cant You telegraph & ask him what hour 1explanatory note Clemens 12pd Lnx
18 new york. william orton, pres’t,
geo. h. mumford, sec’y, new york. 715 dated Hartford Ct 187 4 received at Mch 13 to James Redpath 36 Bromfield St Oh thunder & lightning Cant You telegraph & ask him what hour 1explanatory note Clemens 12pd Lnx
telegram docketed: boston lyceum bureau. james redpath. mar 13 1874 and Twain Mark | Mar 13. 1874
Explanatory Notes
1
Clemens wished to know when Charles Kingsley would arrive to begin his 14 and 15 March visit to Hartford. Kingsley, who was lecturing under Redpath’s management, was coming from Troy, New York (Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, 2:427).
References
- Collection of Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs. Dispersed by sale in 1996. But ODa2 is still primary source.
- 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 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- Anderson, John, Jr. Catalogue of a Fine Collection of American Historical Autograph Letters. Sale no. 168 (15 April). New York: John Anderson, Jr. 1903
- Anderson Auction Company. Library and Art Collection of George Bentham of New York City. Part 1—The Library. Sale no. 867 (28 and 29 November). New York: Anderson Auction Company. 1910
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS (the copy received, a telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator), which was owned in 1984 by Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs, who provided a photocopy to the Mark Twain Papers.
L6 , 73–74; John Anderson, Jr., lot 49, with omission; Anderson Auction Company 1910, lot 180, with omission.