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To Whitelaw Reid
per Telegraph Operator
3 January 1873 • (1st of 2) • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 00851)

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the western union telegraph company.

no. 23 the rules of this company require that all messages 1106
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. 1 t. t. eckert, gen. supt., new york.william orton, prest.

dated, Hartford Ct3 rec’d at 145 broadway,

to Whitelaw ReidJany 3 1873.

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Mark Twain

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1 George Hart Mumford (1840–75) graduated from Harvard University; he was admitted to the bar in 1864. Since 1865 he had worked for the Western Union Telegraph Company, spending several years in charge of its business on the Pacific Coast. In 1872 he succeeded his uncle, Oliver H. Palmer, as secretary of the company, becoming vice-president shortly thereafter (“Obituary,” New York Times, 27 July 75, 4; James D. Reid, 503–4, 506).

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MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph operator, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).

glyph Previous publication: L5, 263–264.

glyph Provenance: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).

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