per Telegraph Operator
30 January 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: LNT, UCCL 09227)
form no. 1.
the western union telegraph company.
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.
numbersent byrec’d bycheck
B 15 NY PsB9 paid
received at stamped: new orleans. 746pJany 30 1884.
dated Hartford Conn 30 in pencil, circled: 835
to Mrs Geo W. Cable
229–8th St NO.
Your husband will be out of bed by tomorrow
MS, copy received, LNT.
MicroPUL, reel 2; Turner 1960, 28.