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

Cue: "Perfect the English"

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
22 November 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 02097)

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 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

S L Clemens

30 paid

ny

read the notice at the top.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 177; MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

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

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