BIB_ID
293124
Accession number
MA 140.29
Creator
Tenterden, Charles Stuart Aubrey Abbott, Baron, 1834-1882.
Display Date
1879 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters to Cyrus Field and documents related to the transatlantic telegraph cable. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 140 for more information.
Written on stationery with "Foreign Office" embossed at the top.
Written on stationery with "Foreign Office" embossed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Declining an invitation to Field's party; noting that the Atlantic Ocean prevents him from being present; observing that "although the Atlantic cable has enabled us to instantaneously exchange greetings it has not yet been sufficiently perfected to enable us to exchange visits."
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