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Form No. 1
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
This Company TRANSMITS and
DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been
assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message
back to the sending station, for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for
errors or delays in the 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 60 days after sending the message.
This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by the request
of the sender, under the conditions named above.
THOS. T. ECKERT, General Manager. NORVIN GREEN, President.
40 EP
NUMBER 69P
SENT BY SB
REC'D By Cu
CHECK 10 Pd
Received at
12/26 1891
Dated New York 26
To
Walt Whitman
328 Mickle St
you are making splendid fight Dont give up the ship
Joseph B. Gilder
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Correspondent:
Joseph Benson Gilder (1858–1936) was, with his
sister Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849–1916), co-editor of The Critic, a literary magazine.