Object details
Accession number
ARC.000922
Primary Creator
Charles Townsend Copeland
(Calais, Maine, 1860 - 1952, Waverly, Masachusetts)
Full title
Telegram to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Creation Date
13 January 1920
Language
English
Marks
Telegram printed: Western Union / Telegram / Newcomb Carlton, President George W.E. Atkins, First Vice-President / ...
Inscribed in pencil (recto, bottom): "Copey"
Dictated by Isabella Stewart Gardner, inscribed by Morris Carter (verso): Professor C. T. Copeland / Cambridge Mass / Alas not able to inspire / even Dan Allen, but all / my wishes are with you / [illegible] it will be a long / time before I go to next / lecture although I miss / them a great deal. / The grippe has me. / Thanks for your telegram. / I.S. Gardner
Display Media
Ink on paper
Web Commentary
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