BIB_ID
101581
Accession number
MA 139.27
Creator
Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896.
Display Date
1872 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters to Cyrus Field and documents related to the first transatlantic telegraph cable. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 139 for more information.
Written on stationery with "House of Commons" embossed at the top.
Written on stationery with "House of Commons" embossed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Asking if Field can "do something ... to help our two countries in this untoward business"; encouraging him, if he believes that the U.S. government never waived "the claim for indirect damages" [after the American Civil War], to "make this statement publicly."
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