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per Telegraph Operator
15 June 1858 • Memphis, Tenn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00015)
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illinois & mississippi telegraph company
caton lines.

St Louis June 16 1858

by telegraph

from Memphis 15 185  

to W A Moffett 168 Locust st

Henrys recovery is very doubtful 1

Sam Clements

[canceled in pencil:]

[5 w ]a • 50 & 110 Col 2

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1 Henry Clemens was severely injured in the explosion of three or four of the Pennsylvania’s boilers at about 6:00 a.m. on 13 June 1858. He was brought to Memphis, about sixty miles upriver, with many of the other victims.

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2 That is, five words at $.50 each, plus $1.10, collect. The line was canceled, presumably as a form of receipt, upon delivery and payment.



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MS telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator and presumably received by William Moffett, Moffett Collection, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

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5 w a .50 & 110 Col[‘a’ over ‘w’]