BIB_ID
292784
Accession number
MA 139.7
Creator
Bright, John, 1811-1889.
Display Date
1867 Mar. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
A note of introduction addressed to Field that Bright gave to his nephew, Robert Barclay. Barclay and Field were on the same transatlantic passage of the SS Great Eastern.
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