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Fry, Edward P., fl. 1844-1870 [List of letters sent from Samuel F. B. Morse to Edward P. Fry]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04503.08 Author/Creator: Fry, Edward P., fl. 1844-1870 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph note signed Date: March 14, 1870 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 7.5 cm, Width: 13.5 cm Order a Copy

Lists dates and places written of five letters sent from Morse to Fry concerning the formation of a telegraph line from New York to Philadelphia in 1844. Note at bottom states that other letters from 1870 were included in order to make a book of autographs. Signed with initials, E. P. F. Letters referred to are GLC04503.01 - .07.

Fry, Edward P., fl. 1844-1870
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

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