per Telegraph Operator
5 August 1872 • Saybrook Point, Conn. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00785)
blank no. i
connecticut river telegraph company.
the rules of this company require that all messages
received for trans-
mission, 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.
gershom b. hubbell, sup’t,
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f. w. russell, pres’t,
hartford, conn. j. a. smith, jr.,
sec’y, hartford.1explanatory note
dated Saybrook Point, Ct. 187
received at 8.14—Aug 5”
to Mrs Orion
Cor. Forest & Hawthorn sts.
Send carriage to depot about ten 10 Ⓐemendation this morning.2explanatory note
S. L. Clemens
9 collect Ⓐemendation
s
Mrs Orion | Cor Forest & Hawthorn Ⓐemendation | no. 4 | charges. 30 & 25 Dly return address: western union telegraph co Ⓐemendation. | william orton, pres’t. Ⓐemendation
MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 137–138.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.