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

Cue: "I mail check to your office tonight to pay for"

Source format: "MS, telegram"

Letter type: "telegram"

Notes:

Last modified: 2003-12-01T00:00:00

Revision History: Paradise, Kate | kate 2003-12-01 was 1881

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster per Telegraph Operator
17 June 1882 • 2nd of 2 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 10881)

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the western union telegraph company.

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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.

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

a. r. brewer, sec’y. norvin green, president.


dated Hartford Ct. 17 1881 2.

June 17

received at 1002 sixth avenue, n.y.

to Chas L Webster

418 W 57 st

I mail check to your office tonight to pay for eighty shares I thought of buying more but eighty is sufficient That is the amount your telegram mentioned

S. L. Clemens


☞ this telegram has just been received at the office in 1002 sixth avenue,

(bet. 55th and 56th sts.) where any reply should be sent.

direct wires. read the notice at the top.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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