Name/Title
Cyrus West Field 1858Entry/Object ID
001957Tags
Cyrus W FieldScope and Content
New York, Aug. 21st 1858.
This is to certify that I have
sold the balance of the Atlantic
Telegraph Cable now on board of
the U. S. S. S. "Niagara" to
Messrs Tiffany & Co. Jewellers
No. 550 Broadway of this
city, and that the piece which
accompanies this, is a genuine
section thereof.
Cyrus W. Field.
[Small text at bottom]: Entd according to Act of Congress AD 1858 by Tiffany & Co in the Clerk's Office of the dist Court of the So dist of N Y
CAUTION.
ATTENTION IS RESPECTFULLY INVITED TO THE
following letter from
CYRUS W. FIELD, ESQ.
NEW YORK, August 24th, 1858.
MESSRS. TIFFANY & Co.-Gentlemen: At your request, and
in justice to you, I am bound to state, that I disposed of the en-
tire balance of the Atlantic Cable, on the U. S. steam frigate
"Niagara," to your firm, and that if any other party claims to
have any portion thereof, it must either have been procured
from you, or from the small specimens which were distributed
on board before the Cable was laid, in which case the quantity
is too small to be worthy of notice.
There is a peculiar interest attached to the cable which you
have bought-twenty miles of it were actually submerged in the
ocean and recovered, while through all of it the electric signals were being transmitted during the whole of the time
occupied in laying the cable.
Of course any quantity of cable can be manufactured in
England, and many specimens have been circulated in this
country, but to few, if any of these, attaches the peculiar value
which the cable purchased by you possesses, from the fact
that they were part and parcel of the cable which is now actually laid. I remain, gentlemen, very truly your friend,
aug31 1w CYRUS W. FIELD.
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - company led by Cyrus West Field, the project began in 1854 and completed in 1858, unable to use AI to transcribe.
