Title

Telegram from the Mayor of Cambridgeport, Mass.

Authors

J. Warren Merrill

Format of original

Letters (correspondence)

Date Digital

9/18/2014

Language

English

Repository

Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

Files

Identifier

T:MA1-K

Description

The Mayor asks what the citizens of Cambridge can do to help the citizens of Portland. The Mayor of Portland has jotted down a reply in pencil on the back side of the telegram. Money and building materials are the most pressing need.

Publication Date

7-6-1866

Keywords

Great Fire -- Portland (Me.) – 1866, Fires – Maine – Portland, Disaster relief – Maine – Portland

Transcript

Cambridgeport

Portland July 6

Mayor

The citizens of Cambridge sympathize deeply with those of Portland in the dreadful calamity which has fallen upon them what can we do to afford them most judicious acceptance

J Warren Merrill

Mayor

[penciled reply noted on reverse]

Your most generous [?] – most pressing need is money + building material

Recommended Citation

Merrill, J. Warren, "Telegram from the Mayor of Cambridgeport, Mass." (1866). Relief for the Portland Sufferers : The Great Fire, 1866. 4.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/great_fire_relief/4