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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
77
While
engaged
in
these
negotiations,
Mr.
Field
took
his
family
to
Paris,
and
there
met
with
a
great
loss
in
the
sudden
death
of
a
favorite
sister,
who
had
accompanied
them
abroad.
Full
of
the
sorrow
of
this
event,
and
unfitted
for
business
of
any
kind,
he
returned
to
London
to
find
an
invitation
to
go
into
the
country
and
spend
a
few
days
with
Mr.
James
Wilson,
then
Secretary
to
the
Treasury,
a
man
of
great
influence
in
the
Government,
at
his
residence
near
Bath;
there
to
discuss
quietly
and
at
length
the
proposed
aid
to
the
Atlantic
Telegraph.
Though
he
had
but
little
spirit
to
go
among
strangers,
he
felt
it
his
duty
not
to
miss
an
opportunity
to
advance
the
cause
he
had
so
much
at
heart.
The
result
of
this
visit
was
the
following
letter,
received
a
few
days
later:
"Treasury
Chambers.
Nov.
20,
1856.
"Sir:
Having
laid
before
the
Lords
Commissioners
of
her
Majesty's
Treasury
your
letter
of
the
13th
ultimo,
addressed
to
the
Earl
of
Clarendon,
requesting,
on
behalf
of
the
New
York,
Newfoundland,
and
London
Telegraph
Company,
certain
privileges
and
protection
in
regard
to
the
line
of
telegraph
which
it
is
proposed
to
establish
between
Newfoundland
and
Ireland,
I
am
directed
by
their
lordships
to
acquaint
you
that
they
are
prepared
to
enter
into
a
contract
with
the
said
Telegraph
Company,
based
upon
the
following
conditions,
namely:
"1.
It
is
understood
that
the
capital
required
to
lay
down
the
line
will
be
three
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
pounds.
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