per Telegraph Operator
7 March 1873 • (1st of 2) • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 00882)
blank no. i.
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the western union telegraph company.
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the rules of this company require that all messages
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received for transmission shall be written on the
message blanks of the com-
pany, under and subject to the conditions
printed thereon, which conditions
have been agreed to by the sender of
the following message.
g. h. mumford, sec. t. t. eckert, gen. supt., new york. william orton, prest.
dated, Hartford 6 rec’d at 145 broadway,
to Whitelaw Reid March 6 7 1873.
“Tribune”
Leave It out. The man Is the second advent In disguise god help us. we dont want to crucify the saviour twice handrunning1explanatory note
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On 6 March Clemens had sent Reid an article about convicted murderer William Foster for publication in the Tribune. On 7 March, after writing and suppressing an addition to it (enclosed in the next letter), he sent the present telegram requesting that it be withdrawn. No text of the withdrawn article survives, but Clemens provided glimpses of it in the first paragraph of the next letter and in the first sentence of its enclosure.
MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).
L5 , 310–311.
The Whitelaw Reid Papers (part of the Papers of the Reid Family) were donated to DLC between 1953 and 1957 by Helen Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid).