per Telegraph Operator
16 August 1872 • Saybrook Point, Conn. (MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00794)
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,
102
f. w. russell, pres’t,
hartford, conn. j. a. smith, jr.,
sec’y, hartford.
dated Saybrook Point, Ct. 187 2
received at 12.20 Aug 16
to Mrs O Clemens
Cor. Forest & Hawthorn st.
Send down all my white pants
S. S L. Clemens
6 p’d 30
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).
L5 , 147.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
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