
per Telegraph Operator
15 June 1858 • Memphis, Tenn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00015)
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illinois & mississippi telegraph company St Louis June 16 1858 by telegraph from Memphis 15 185 to W A Moffett 168 Locust stHenrys recovery is very doubtful 1 Samℓ Clements [canceled in pencil:] |
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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.



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).
Previous publication:
L1, 80.
Provenance:
see Moffett Collection, p. 462.
Emendations and textual notes:
5 w a .50 & 110 Col • [‘a’ over ‘w’]