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

Cue: "Send down all"

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
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

Textual Commentary
16 August 1872 • To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens , per Telegraph Operator • Saybrook Point, Conn.UCCL 00794
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 , 147.

Provenance:

see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

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

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