BIB_ID
293288
Accession number
MA 140.56
Creator
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892.
Display Date
1866 June 30-Sept. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (31 p.) ; 23.7 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.
Signed on the inside of the front cover: "Cyrus W. Field, New York. Atlantic Telegraph 1866."
Written in a soft-cover notebook with brown marbled covers and blue ruled paper. With a stationer's sticker on the last page: "Metchim & Son, Account Book Makers, Printers & Lithographers, 32, Clement's Lane, E.C. & 20, Parliament St. S.W."
Signed on the inside of the front cover: "Cyrus W. Field, New York. Atlantic Telegraph 1866."
Written in a soft-cover notebook with brown marbled covers and blue ruled paper. With a stationer's sticker on the last page: "Metchim & Son, Account Book Makers, Printers & Lithographers, 32, Clement's Lane, E.C. & 20, Parliament St. S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Field's diary while he was on board the steamship Great Eastern laying a transatlantic cable in 1866. Includes daily descriptions of the work being done and transcripts of the telegraphs sent and received.
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