- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Telegraph from Samuel Spahr Laws to Harry Waddell Pratt, 1906
- Creator:
- Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
- Date of Original:
- 1906
- Subject:
- Administrative procedure
Polygamy
Presbyterians--Virginia
Presbyterian Church--Government
Presbyterian Church--Virginia
Telegraph
Clowry, Robert Charles, 1838-1925
Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921--Personal correspondence
Pratt, H. W. (Harry Waddell), 1873-1949
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of Virginia
Western Union Telegraph Company
Washington (D.C.) - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- telegraphs
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- A night message telegraph sent from Samuel Spahr Laws to Harry Waddell Pratt concerning a complaint against the Synod [of Virginia regarding its overture on polygamy], informing Pratt that the complaint has not been abandoned and that Pratt has the right to appear before the Committee [on Judicial Business for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.], Washington (D.C.), 1906. Includes an explanation of night messages by Robert C. Clowry, president and general manager of Western Union Telegraph Company.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/6248
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:6248/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Original Collection:
- S. S. Laws papers, 1878-1917
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
