BIB_ID
292767
Accession number
MA 139.3
Creator
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892.
Display Date
1855 Feb. 25.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 16.4 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 mourning stationery.
Written on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Thanking them for their letters; asking them to pass on messages to various relatives; saying that he hopes to return to Europe with his wife and children; encouraging them to be "kind to [their] mother, and affectionate to each other"; telling him he bought them presents in Paris and "the one that has been the best child during [his] absence, shall have the first choice."
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