To
Adolph H. Sutro
per Telegraph Operator
25 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NhD, UCCL 02815)
per Telegraph Operator
25 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NhD, UCCL 02815)
the western union telegraph companyⒶemendation.
6 dated Hartford Conn Aug 25 187 1 received at 11 am to Adolph Sulro Ⓐemendation. Gilsey House. All right will see you in New York before you sail 1explanatory note S L Clemens
☞ this telegram has just been received at the office in Gilsey House where any reply should be sent.
10 pd y H direct wires.
6 dated Hartford Conn Aug 25 187 1 received at 11 am to Adolph Sulro Ⓐemendation. Gilsey House. All right will see you in New York before you sail 1explanatory note S L Clemens
☞ this telegram has just been received at the office in Gilsey House where any reply should be sent.
10 pd y H direct wires.
Explanatory Notes
1
Sutro telegraphed that he would be in New York until 30 August, when he was scheduled to depart for Liverpool on the Russia. Clemens almost certainly was at the St. Nicholas Hotel between 26 and 28 August—with Olivia, Ida Langdon, and one of the Langdon cousins—and probably met with Sutro then (“Passengers Sailed,” New York Times, 31 Aug 71, 8; “Morning Arrivals,” New York Evening Express, 26 Aug 71, 3; RI 1993 , 867).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
the . . . company. ●
words on telegram
blank identical to those reported in the commentary for 7 Nov 70 to
Langdonclick to open link
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Sulro ●
sic
MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover (NhD). The printed verso of the telegraph form, identical to the form reproduced in facsimile above, has not been transcribed as part of the text.
L4 , 449.
donated to NhD in 1981 by Dr. Joseph H. Placak.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.