Autograph memorandum signed : Agent's Office, Calcutta, to station masters and others, 1881 Jan. 31.

Record ID: 
293194
Accession number: 
MA 140.40
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.2 cm
Notes: 

On East Indian Railway Company stationery.
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.

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."

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.