Manuscript/Mixed Material Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved alone" among her traveling party in the shipwreck of the Ville du Havre


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Title
Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved alone" among her traveling party in the shipwreck of the Ville du Havre
Contributor Names
American Colony (Jerusalem)
Spafford, Horatio Gates, 1828-1888
Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923 (Author)
Created / Published
December 2, 1873
Subject Headings
-  Spafford, Horatio G., 1828-1888
-  Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923
-  Lorriaux, Rev. Theophile
-  Goodwin, Mrs. Daniel, Jr
-  Culver, William B. (Willie), 1861-1873
-  Manuscripts
-  United States -- Illinois -- Chicago
Genre
Manuscripts
Notes
-  Handwritten cablegram, Atlantic Cable Message, The Western Union Telegraph Company. To [Horatio Gates] Spafford, 159 LaSalle St., Chicago [law office of H. G. Spafford]. Received at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 2d, 5:40 AM, 1873.
-  "Saved alone what shall I do. Mrs [Daniel] Goodwin [friend] Children [Annie, Maggie, Bessie, and Tanetta Spafford] Willie Culver [neighbor boy] lost go with [Rev.] Lorriaux [French minister, a fellow survivor of shipwreck] until answer reply . . . Paris. [Anna] Spafford."
-  Cable informing Horatio Gates Spafford of the survival of his wife and the deaths of his children and other members of their traveling party from Chicago, in the shipwreck at sea of the Ville du Havre, 1873.
-  Document conserved by the Library of Congress Conservation Division.
Medium
telegram 8" x 5 1/2"
Call Number/Physical Location
Part I, Box 1, Folder 6: American Colony in Jersusalem
Source Collection
American Colony in Jerusalem Collection
Repository
Manuscript Division
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mamcol.011
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American Colony, Horatio Gates Spafford, and Anna T Spafford. Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved alone" among her traveling party in theshipwreck of the Ville du Havre. December 2, 1873. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.011/. (Accessed January 20, 2018.)

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American Colony, Spafford, H. G. & Spafford, A. T. (1873) Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved alone" among her traveling party in theshipwreck of the Ville du Havre. December 2. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.011/.

MLA citation style:

American Colony, Horatio Gates Spafford, and Anna T Spafford. Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved alone" among her traveling party in theshipwreck of the Ville du Havre. December 2, 1873. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.011/>.