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

Cue: "Fraud no. two"

Source format: "MS, telegram"

Letter type: "telegram"

Notes:

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Revision History: Larson, Brian

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
per Telegraph Operator
20 May 1881 • 2nd of 2 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 01958)

the western union telegraph company.

no. 92 863 12:59

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 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 Conn 20 rec'd at western union building,

broadway and dey street.

to C. L. Webster May 20 1881.

“K” Engraving Co

104 Fulton St NY

Fraud no. two must give up all his stock, he must repay every dollar, which the late swindle cost, including legal expenses also part of the outlay on the former swindle, and his firm must give their note for three thousand dollars with interest from eighteen fifty  seventyeight that money being obtained by fraudful representations, when I send for you I will show you why I think these demands will be conceded.

S. L. Clemens

72 paid

nwn

read the notice at the top.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, the copy received, a telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 157.

Provenance:

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

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