We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way:
(Adventure IV, pg. 44)
Telegrams were a very common method of communication in the Victorian Era. The telegram in the image above was sent by Mr Ronald Ross to his wife in November 1902, having just found out he’d been awarded a Nobel Prize.
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