per Telegraph Operator
8 August 1872 • (1st of 2) • Saybrook Point, Conn. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00788)
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,
217
f. w. russell, pres’t,
930
hartford, conn. j. a. smith, jr.,
sec’y, hartford.
dated Saybrook Point, Ct 8 187 2
received at Aug 8
to Mrs O CLemens
Cor Forest & Hawthorne
Please stir up that infernal Ⓐemendation 1explanatory note Steam Laundry
*
Sam’l L Clemens
7 Collect 30 L & n
Infernal
*
Mrs O Clemens | no. 217 | charges Ⓐemendation. 30 & 25 Dly return address: western union telegraph co. | william orton, pres’t.
Having slightly miswritten “infernal,” the operator marked it with an asterisk and rewrote it clearly at the foot of the telegram.
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 , 141–142.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.