
per Telegraph Operator
6 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 00495)
[the western union telegraph company. ] dated received at to Father died this afternoon1 |
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary



Previous publication:
L4, 181.
Provenance:
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
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.’]