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

Cue: "Maybe you had"

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
20 August 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 02253)

form no. 1

the western union telegraph company.

109

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

148 Ste O 26 pd


received at 599 broadway, n. y.

Aug 201882

dated Elmira NY 20

to Chas L Webster

658 Bway

May be you had better come up tonight and consult tomorrow morning on the bill. I shall have a guest to entertain tomorrow afternoon & night

S L Clemens

☞ this telegram has just been received at the office in

cable office. 599 broadway. always open.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, copy received, 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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