BIB_ID
292802
Accession number
MA 139.14
Creator
Bright, John, 1811-1889.
Display Date
1873 Mar. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 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
Declining a dinner invitation and noting that "one of the conditions on which [he] was permitted to come to London" was that he would "abstain from large dinner parties"; saying he hopes they can "have a chat" soon; callling Field a "soil-y telegraph king."
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