%images;]> magbell-03910411 Telegram from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, October 13, 1896: a machine-readable transcription. The Alexander Graham Bell Collection. Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress.

Washington, DC, 1998.

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1998/12/19 0001

740p Form No. 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following messages. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or doing a transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty day after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. RECEIVED at Corcoran Bldg., S. E. Cor. 15th & F Sts., Washington, D. C. A313NY F. JM. 10 Paid 25 & 50 via No. Sydney 736 pm. Baddeck, C.B. Oct. 13-96 Mrs Graham Bell, 1331 133 0 1 Conn Ave. Washn. D. C.

Will return to Labatory after supper great discovery made to-day.

Graham Bell.

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