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

Cue: "Letter received result"

Source format: "MS, telegram"

Letter type: "telegram"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-03-30T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2005-03-30 was 1882.09.21

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
per Telegraph Operator
4 September 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 02277)

form no. 1

the western union telegraph company.

73

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, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.

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

thos. t. eckert, general manager. norvin green, president.


number sent by rec’d by check

8 K a 19 paid


received at 9 30 am 9/4 1882 2.

dated Elmira NY

to Chas L Webster

Letter received result convincing and as expected

Do with that stuff as your Judgement directs I have written Annie

S L Clemens
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 letter.

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