Dear All,

I am very appreciative of the great response to my appeal below. Some
absolute gems identified, many of which I hope we will use. We also had some
very helpful suggestions from constituents of the South East Museums Agency,
cross domain working at its best!

Unfortunately, there were so many that we will not be able to use them all,
and those selected will be on the basis of the value they add in
illustrating the specific topics to which they relate. There is by no means
any suggestion that those not selected are in any inferior

I will liaise with individual offices regarding publishing rights etc.

Winner of the bubbly is the Essex Record Office, with a fine example dating
from Jan 1846. There was another from the same year, but sadly a few months
later!

If anyone has any further examples of early or significant telegrams, please
let me know. Still not too late to include others if thought particularly
useful.

Thanks again to everyone who replied

David Hay
Head of Group Archives
BT Group plc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hay,DA,David,GDB HAYDA R
> Sent: 10 January 2002 20:14
> To: Archives Nra (E-mail)
> Subject: Telegram & Telex Appeal
>
> Dear All
>
> This is an appeal in connection with the virtual museum that BT is
> currently building (http://www.connected-earth.com)
>
> We'll be using hundred of images and documents from our collections, but
> what we are now seeking are telegrams and telexes which related news of
> significant events or which were sent to / by people of note.
>
> We obviously have examples of the forms themselves, but (perhaps not
> surprisingly) little in the way of messages which customers actually sent
> or received.
>
> If colleagues have any such documents of any date which they would be
> prepared to have scanned and published on Connected Earth, with all due
> acknowledgement, I would be very glad to hear from them.
>
> A bottle of bubbly also to the repository which has the earliest example
> of a telegram which we are allowed to publish on the site. The winner
> presumptive at the moment is 1846, but in theory there should be examples
> dating back to the 1830s.
>
> David Hay
> Head of Group Archives
> BT Group plc
> * Phone : +44 20 7492 8799 * Fax : +44 20 7242 1973
> * Mob: +44 7850 444920
> * e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> *: BT Group Archives, 3rd Floor, Holborn Telephone Exchange,
> 268-270 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EE
> http://www.groupbt.com/archives/
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