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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "Terms satisfactory"

Source format: "MS, telegram"

Letter type: "telegram"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
per Telegraph Operator
6 September 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 02029)

blank no. 1.

the western union telegraph company.

this company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.

errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of unrepeated messages.

this message is an unrepeated message and is delivered by request of the sender under the conditions named above.

a. r. brewer, sec’y. norvin green, president.


96 76 11.08a



dated Elmira, N.Y. 6 188


received at stamped: western union

tel. co.

sep 6 1881

hartford, ct.

to C. L.Webster

at residence of S. L. Clemens

Terms satisfactory, frame the contract to suit yourself

I send money today.

S. L. Clemens

12paid

Ucw

read the notice at the top.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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