8 June 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 01943)
Go to the D L & W RR office in New York (26 Exchange Place, I think), (Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson RR I mean), & see if they will rent me a special sleeping car to Elmira, on daylight train about next Thursday Friday Ⓐemendation the 14th. 15th. Telegraph me their answer, & let me know the hour the train leaves. I think it leaves at 1 p.m, but am not sure.
We go Thursday from here, & Friday from New York unless death or desperate illness interfere.
Have formerly got the car from Mr. A. Reasoner—wrote him a day or two ago, but have received no answer, yet. Go directly to the President of the road, & he will tell you how to proceed. Hurry!
MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 214.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.