To
Pamela A. Moffett
per Telegraph Operator
6 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 00495)
per Telegraph Operator
6 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 00495)
the western union telegraph company. Ⓐemendation
dated Elmira Aug 6 186 70
received at Fredonia ″ 6 ″
to Mrs. P. A. Moffett
Father died this afternoon1explanatory note
S. L. ⒶemendationClemens.
Explanatory Notes
1
Jervis Langdon died at around 5 p.m.
Emendations and Textual Notes
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the . . . company. ●
Blank No. 1.
| 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. | ANSON STAGER, Gen’l
Sup’t, Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM ORTON, Pres’t, O. H.
PALMER, Sec’y, New York.
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S. L. ●
possibly ‘S. S.’
MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).
L4 , 181.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
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