form no. 11

night message.

the western union telegraph company.

833

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 night messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after sending the message.

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

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

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number     sent by   rec’d by                 check

0134       Cu       RR   97 paid               Nr

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received at the western union building, 195 broadway, new york,   Jan 13 1885

dated Quincy Depot Ills. 12

to C. L. Webster,   658 Broadway New York

Your letter should have come by telegraph not mail, I telegraphed Rice that if you had not been heard from by next evening he could have a chapter he telegraphed back within the hour & said Bromfield had decided to leave him a chapter without waiting for you which I thought pretty cool treatment of my orders go & take the chapter away from Rice if you want to nobody in authority has yet given in to him and in any case get an explanation of this most extraordinary proceeding I never heard of such a performance.