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To Adolph H. Sutro
per Telegraph Operator
24 August 1871 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, copy received: NhD, UCCL 03649)

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[the western union telegraph company].

dated

Hartford Conn 187 1
received at

11 15 Aug 24
to

Adolph [Sulro]

Gilsey House 1

When do you sail? how long shall you remain in NY when leave & whither

Saml L Clemens
155 Asylum St 2

right manicule this telegram has just been received at the office in

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

where any reply should be sent.

15 Pdy H direct wires.

[telegram docketed:] 1871. | Samℓ L Clemens | Hartford. | Aug 24.

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

Editorial Signs

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1 Sutro might have sent his New York address in the letter that reached Clemens on 19 August, or he may have wired him after his 22 August arrival at the Gilsey House, which had its own telegraph office.

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2 Three subsidiaries of the American Publishing Company—Belknap and Bliss, Richard W. Bliss, and the Columbian Book Company—were housed at this address. Clemens was probably using an office at one of them to work on Roughing It (Geer 1871, 226; Hill, 16).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS facsimile. The editors have not seen the MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Dartmouth College

The verso of the telegraph form for 24 August 1871 to Sutro, on which New York City and Brooklyn telegraph offices were listed. Dartmouth College Library, Hanover (NhD). The docket in the upper right hand corner is transcribed on p. 448. The telegrams of 25 and 29 August 1871 to Sutro were transmitted on identical forms.

Library, Hanover (NhD). The printed verso of the telegraph form has not been transcribed as part of the text. It is reproduced in facsimile.

glyph Previous publication: L4, 448–449.

glyph Provenance:Donated to NhD in 1981 by Dr. Joseph H. Placak.

glyph Emendations and textual notes:

the . . . company. • [words on telegram blank identical to those reported in the commentary for 7 Nov 70 to Langdon]

Sulro • [sic]