per Telegraph Operator
22 November 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 02097)
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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 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, pres.
no. 87 711 1228
dated Hartford Connec rec’d at western union building,
broadway and dey sreet.
to Chas L Webster Nov 22 1881.
K Engraving Co
104 Fulton st NY
Perfect the english patent. my brass patience is running low. Put a hundred men on it and telegraph me at result of some sort or other in twenty four hours
30 paid
ny
read the notice at the top.
MS, copy received, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 177; MicroPUL, reel 2.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.