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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Send carriage to"

Source format: "MS, copy received"

Letter type: "copy received"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
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,    4   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

Textual Commentary
5 August 1872 • To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens , per Telegraph Operator • Saybrook Point, Conn.UCCL 00785
Source text(s):

MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 137–138.

Provenance:

see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Hubbell, Russell, and Smith were directors as well as officers of the Connecticut River Telegraph Company, founded in 1867 (Geer 1872, 290).

2 

The purpose of Clemens’s trip to Hartford is not known.

Emendations and Textual Notes
  10 ●  circled by the telegraph operator
  collect ●  partly circled by the telegraph operator
  Hawthorn ●  Hawt◇◇◇◇ torn
  co.  ●  c ◇◇ torn
  pres’t.  ●  ◇◇◇◇◇◇◇ torn
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