form no. 1

the western union telegraph company.

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this company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.

errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of unrepeated messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.

this is an unrepeated message, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.

thos. t. eckert, general manager. norvin green, president.

number sent by rec’d by check

  153 GZ 20 pd Via Pine Bluff

received at 12 40

[stamped, with day added by hand: western union tel. co. hartford, ct. apr25 1882] 1882.

dated Arkansas City Ark.

to Hon Jno Russell Young

US minister to China

140 Washn

I send a thousand congratulations & add to them as many regrets that I can not be present

S. L. Clemens

[stamped:] 3486