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Collection Reference Number GLC02062
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Alexander Graham Bell to C. F. Manahan regarding the connection of telephone lines
Date 12 March 1877
Author Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)  
Recipient Manahan, F.  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Requests that Manahan make arrangements with Western Union Telegraph Company or the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company to connect lines with his private line. Offers to repeat a telephone lecture in Lowell [Massachusetts] as long as the lines are connected, for a fee of $200. Written one year after the first telephone patent.
Subjects Science and Technology  Telegraph  Telephone  Finance  
People Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)  Manahan, C. F. (fl. 1877)  
Place written Boston, Massachusetts
Theme Science, Technology, Invention
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945