Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C ([DLC])

Cue: "Have mailed second"

Source format: "MS, copy received"

Letter type: "copy received"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Whitelaw Reid
per Telegraph Operator
6 January 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 00853)

blank no. 1.

1608

the western union telegraph company.

no. 75   the rules of this company require that all messages    945
received for transmission shall be written on the message blanks of the com-
pany, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions
have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.

g. h. mumford, sec.   t. t. eckert, gen. supt., new york.  william orton, prest.

dated,    Hartford 6                       rec’d at 145 broadway,

to    Whitelaw Reid                        Jan 6th. 1873.

Editor – Tribune –

Have mailed second & concluding paper1explanatory note

Mark Twain

6pdxⒶemendation JosⒶemendation

Textual Commentary
6 January 1873 • To Whitelaw Reid , per Telegraph Operator • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 00853
Source text(s):

MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 266.

Provenance:

The Whitelaw Reid Papers (part of the Papers of the Reid Family) were donated to DLC between 1953 and 1957 by Helen Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid).

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

Explanatory Notes
1 See Enclosure with 6 January 1873 to Whitelaw Reidclick to open link for the full text of this second Sandwich Islands letter, published in the Tribune on 9 January.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  6pdx ●  possibly ‘6pd4’
Ⓐ  Jos ●  possibly ‘Jrs’
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