dated,
Hartford 6
rec’d at 145 broadway,
to
Whitelaw ReidMarch
6 7
1873.
To
Whitelaw Reid
per Telegraph Operator
7 March 1873 • (1st of 2) • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, copy received: DLC, UCCL 00882)
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blank no. i. 792 the western union telegraph company.
no. 4Fa
g. h. mumford, sec.
{ “Tribune” Leave It out. The man Is the second advent In disguise god help us. we dont want to crucify the saviour twice handrunning1 Saml L Clemens 23 paid Rd Kr |
Explanatory Notes
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On 6 March Clemens had sent Reid an article
about convicted murderer William Foster for publication in the Tribune. On 7 March, after writing and
suppressing an addition to it (enclosed in the next letter), he sent
the present telegram requesting that it be withdrawn. No text of the
withdrawn article survives, but Clemens provided glimpses of it in
the first paragraph of the next letter and in the first sentence of
its enclosure.
Source text(s):MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph
operator, Whitelaw Reid Papers, Library of Congress (DLC).
Previous publication:
L5, 310–311.
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).
