To
Adolph H. Sutro
per Telegraph Operator
29 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NvHi, UCCL 10728)
per Telegraph Operator
29 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NvHi, UCCL 10728)
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dated Hartford Conn 187 1 received at Aug 29 to Adolph Sutro. Gilsey House How long will tunnell be when finished 1explanatory note find Riley at American Minister give me your London address Saml L Clemens 149 Asylum St
☞ this telegram has just been received at the office in Gilsey House where any reply should be sent.
17 Paid direct wires.
dated Hartford Conn 187 1 received at Aug 29 to Adolph Sutro. Gilsey House How long will tunnell be when finished 1explanatory note find Riley at American Minister give me your London address Saml L Clemens 149 Asylum St
☞ this telegram has just been received at the office in Gilsey House where any reply should be sent.
17 Paid direct wires.
telegram docketed: 1871. | Samℓ L Clemens | Hartford | Aug 29.
Explanatory Notes
1
Sutro responded with the estimated size of the tunnel—two thousand feet deep and eight miles long—but Clemens probably did not make use of the information until December, when he read chapter 52 of Roughing It in proof and added a footnote about the tunnel ( RI 1993 , 360n, 867–68).
Emendations and Textual Notes
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the . . . company. ●
words on telegram
blank identical to those reported in the commentary for 7 Nov 70 to
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MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Nevada State Historical Society, Reno (NvHi). The printed verso of the telegraph form, identical to the form reproduced in facsimile on p. 680, has not been transcribed as part of the text.
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