BIB_ID
293268
Accession number
MA 140.53
Display Date
1865 July-Aug.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 36 p.) ; 33.6 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.
Possibly compiled by William H. Russell, a reporter for The Times who also published The Atlantic Telegraph (London: Day & Son, 1865).
Possibly compiled by William H. Russell, a reporter for The Times who also published The Atlantic Telegraph (London: Day & Son, 1865).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
A copy of a manuscript diary kept during the voyage to lay the Atlantic cable in 1865.
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