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

Cue: "Yes draw five"

Source format: "MS, copy received"

Letter type: "copy received"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-03-28T00:00:00

Revision History: Larson, Brian | BL 2005-03-28 was dated 29 Jan, receipt date of telegram; was actually sent on 28 Jan

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
per
Telegraph Operator

28 January 1885 • Milwaukee, Wis. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 03140)

form no. 44

night message.

the western union telegraph company.

B58

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

0773       Wp       Sc   10 Paid       Mte


received at the western union Building, 195 broadway, new york, Jany 29 1885

dated           Milwaukee Wis 28

to           C. L. Webster

                685 Broadway

                              NY.

Yes draw five thousand dollars from the No 2 account

S. L. Clemens.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

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