Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

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

Cue: "Father died this"

Source format: "MS, copy received"

Letter type: "copy received"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB

MTPDocEd
To Pamela A. Moffett
per Telegraph Operator
6 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 00495)
the western union telegraph company. Ⓐemendation

dated  Elmira                  Aug 6 186 70         

received at  Fredonia              ″  6    ″          

to  Mrs. P. A. Moffett                              

Father died this afternoon1explanatory note

S. L. ⒶemendationClemens.
Textual Commentary
6 August 1870 • To Pamela A. Moffett , per Telegraph Operator • Elmira, N.Y. • UCCL 00495
Source text(s):

MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 181.

Provenance:

see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Jervis Langdon died at around 5 p.m.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  the . . . company. •  Blank No. 1. | THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. | The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message. | ANSON STAGER, Gen’l Sup’t, Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM ORTON, Pres’t, O. H. PALMER, Sec’y, New York.
Ⓐ  S. L. •  possibly ‘S. S.’
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