BIB_ID
293222
Accession number
MA 140.47
Creator
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Display Date
1871 Dec. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.7 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Discussing the Great Telegraphic Convention; noting that the telegraph helps promote peace by facilitating communication between countries; suggesting that the convention pass a resolution "to the effect that ... the telegraph should be deemed a sacred thing to be by common consent effectually protected."
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