{"id":209,"date":"2010-08-30T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:34:03","slug":"western-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Western Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 561px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211 \" title=\"telegram_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/telegram_00011.jpg\" alt=\"James P. Woodruff to Lillian C. Bell\" width=\"551\" height=\"357\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James P. Woodruff to Lillian C. Bell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Telegrams may be a thing of the past, but they appear in our present with some regularity.\u00a0 While accessioning<a href=\"#_edn1\">[i]<\/a> a new donation I came across this gem.<\/p>\n<p>If you are having trouble with the script, it is from James Parsons Woodruff to Lillian Churchill Bell dated one day prior to their wedding date.\u00a0 It says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave started wait for me don\u2019t take the best man.\u201d\u00a0 For more about J.P. Woodruff, see <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2_cCAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA44&amp;lpg=PA44&amp;dq=james+p+woodruff+Lillian+Bell&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=Rv3VTm5pyN&amp;sig=jR3P1-3U4JUt8T3v2PUerp-JMk8&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=Yqx7TMbsFYWClAecyJzsCw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=fa\">this entry<\/a> in <em>Taylor\u2019s Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut 190-<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> Accessioning is the process by which a donation is formally added to the collection.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegrams may be a thing of the past, but they appear in our present with some regularity.\u00a0 While accessioning[i] a new donation I came across this gem. If you are having trouble with the script, it is from James Parsons Woodruff to Lillian Churchill Bell dated one day prior to their wedding date.\u00a0 It says: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}