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Add to My Citations To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
per Telegraph Operator
8 August 1872 • (1st of 2) • Saybrook Point, Conn.
(MS, copy received: CU-MARK, UCCL 00788)
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blank no. i

connecticut river telegraph company.

the rules of this company require that all messages received for trans-
mission, 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.

gershom b. hubbell, sup’t, em spaceem space217em space f. w. russell, pres’t,em spaceem spaceem space930
em spaceem spaceem space hartford, conn.em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spacej. a. smith, jr., sec’y,em spaceem spacehartford.

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dated em spaceem spaceSaybrook Point, Ct 8em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem space 187 2 em space

received at em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceAug 8em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem space

to em spaceem spaceMrs O CLemensem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem space

Cor Forest & Hawthorne

Please stir up that [infernal ]1 Steam Laundry

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Sam’l L Clemens

7 Collect 30 L & n

Infernal

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Mrs O Clemens | [ no. 217 | charges ]. 30 & 25 Dly [return address:] western union telegraph co. | william orton, pres’t.

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

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1 Having slightly miswritten “infernal,” the operator marked it with an asterisk and rewrote it clearly at the foot of the telegram.



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MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

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infernal • infern ‸ern‸al [rewritten for clarity]

no. ... charges. • [white diamondwhite diamondwhite diamond] ... [white diamondwhite diamondwhite diamond] rges. [torn; text adopted from envelope with 5 Aug 72 to MEC]