- MS 902/3/8;D Letter to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 30 March 1865 [Regarding the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, 1865-1868] 2 leaves, holograph (Xerox)
Rothrock, correspondence
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- Dates of CreationMarch 1865
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Administrative / Biographical History
The Western Union Telegraph Expedition, 1865-1867 (aimed survey a route for, and to construct, a telegraph line between the United States and Europe by way of British and Russian America, Bering Strait, and Siberia. The expedition was organized on a quasi-military basis under the general command of Charles Bulkley (who served as engineer-in-chief), and divided into four divisions. In 1867, news that North Atlantic Telegraph Company had successfully laid a cable from Newfoundland to Ireland the previous year caused the Western Union Telegraph Company to abandon its enterprise. Nevertheless, the scientific and geographical results of the expedition, especially in Alaska, were of great value.
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The original letters are held by the Natural History Library Smithsonian Institute USA (1982)