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

Cue: "I send a"

Source format: "MS, telegram"

Letter type: "telegram"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To John Russell Young
per Telegraph Operator
25 April 1882 • Arkansas City, Ark. (MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 02207)

form no. 1

the western union telegraph company.

123

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, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.

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

thos. t. eckert, general manager. norvin green, president.


number sent by rec’d by check

  153 GZ 20 pd Via Pine Bluff


received at 12 40

stamped, with day added by hand: western union tel. co. hartford, ct. apr25 1882 1882.

dated Arkansas City Ark.

to Hon Jno Russell Young

US minister to China

140 Washn

I send a thousand congratulations & add to them as many regrets that I can not be present

S. L. Clemens

stamped: 3486

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, copy received, John Russell Young Papers, DLC.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

Donated by Young’s third wife, May Dow Davids Young, their son, Gordon Russell Young, and Dorothy Mills Young, 1924-1967.

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

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