Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
EXPLORING FEASABILITY OF TRANS-ATLANTIC CABLE (BUSINESS.) FIELD, CYRUS W. Letter Signed, "Cyrus W. Field," to physicist and coastline surveyor Alexander D. Bache, requesting a report on the project of laying submerged cable between Europe and America. 1/2 page, 4to, ruled paper; folds through signature with some loss, left edge inexpertly trimmed with some loss to text (but still legible). Washington, 4 February 1857
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"The New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company would be highly pleased to receive from you a full expression of your views . . . upon . . . the great enterprise in laying a submarine cable between Europe and America. . . ."