thos. t. eckert, gen’l sup’t,
new york.
To
William Dean Howells
per Telegraph Operator3 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, copy received: MH-H, UCCL 01059)
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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. william orton, pres’t, geo. h. mumford, sec’y, new york.1 dated received at to Edtor Atlantic Mnthly— All right come down with me Friday the superior value of birds in the hand over those that still sport in joyous freedom amid the leafy depths of their native woodland is so universally recognized that I cannot feel necessitated to enlarge upon it to one of the first minds of the age at three cents a word by telegraph 2 Mark
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Explanatory Notes
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For identification of the Western Union officials, see L5, 9 n. 1, 48–49 n. 1, and 264 n. 1 top.
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The figure “60” below is the telegraph
operator’s count of words in the body of the telegram.
Clemens was attempting to complete arrangements for Howells’s
visit to Hartford (4 Mar 74 to Howells, n. 1).
Source text(s):MS, the copy received, a telegram blank filled out by the receiving telegraph
operator, Houghton Library, Harvard University (MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 [98]).
Previous publication:
L6, 59; MTL, 1:214, with omission; MTHL, 1:14–15.
Provenance:see Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
