no. 16—form 3. [stamped: main office 167 broadway.]

the american rapid telegraph company.

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[handwritten: 164 / 12–20]

jd 37 pd 26

hartford ct june 17. chas l. webster

k engraving co i09 fulton st n. y.

if you can get me one eighty shares of that stock at fifty three what you paid before take it. if you cant i will buy it here at trifle more. see about it and telegraph me.

s. l. clemens.

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