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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 by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays
in 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 days
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, General Manager.
NORVIN GREEN, President
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NUMBER 10 Ny | SENT BY ML | REC'D BY Cu | 45 Pd CHECK
RECEIVED at 321 FEDERAL ST. 12/22 1891
Dated Brooklyn NY 22
To Walt Whitman Camden1
Dear Walt
Your great loving teaching has lightened many burdens & thousands so helped by you send now their grateful love
hoping that it may make the burden of your illness lighter, Whitman Can "never die yet," we need your personal presence,
God spare you.
W H Neidlinger
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see notes Dec 22 1891
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Correspondent:
William Harold Neidlinger
(1863–1924) was a composer, vocal instructor, and organist. In the early
1890s, Neidlinger taught at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences before
leaving in 1898 to study abroad in London and Paris. He is the compiler of two
song collections for children, Small Songs for Small
Singers (1896) and Songs of the Camp Fire Girls of
America (1912). His 1920 composition, "Memories of Lincoln," set to
music three Whitman poems: "Beat! Beat! Drums!"; "When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd"; and "O Captain! My Captain!" For more information, see
Victoria Etnier Villamil, A Singer's Guide to American Art
Song 1870–1980 (Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 1993), 276.
Notes
- 1. This envelope is addressed:
Walt Whitman | 328 Mickle. It includes the following printed information:
Form 116. | Western Union Telegraph [torn-away] | Pay no Charges to Messenger
unless written in Ink in Delivery Boo[torn-away] | No. 10 | Walt Whitman | 328 Mickle | Charges,
Pd. The verso of the
envelope includes the following printed information: NIGHT MESSAGES AT REDUCED RATES. | MONEY ORDERS BY TELEGRAPH. [back]