BIB_ID
293194
Accession number
MA 140.40
Display Date
1881 Jan. 31.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.2 cm
Notes
On East Indian Railway Company stationery.
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.
Signed by "J. Wagstaff, Secretary to Agent."
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.
Signed by "J. Wagstaff, Secretary to Agent."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Stating that Cyrus W. Field and his family "may be allowed the use of a double saloon carriage at ordinary fares, ... with liberty to have the same attached or detached to any regular passenger train on the East Indian Railway."
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