Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 291
Government specialenvoy to the United Statesand the great Europeangovernments, with powerto frame treaties of friend-ship with those nations. This was an honor never beforeconferred on a foreigner. Mr. Burlingame accepted theappointment and, at the head of a large mission of distin-guished Chinese… … ALEXANDER BELL USING A LONG-DISTANCETELEPHONE. LETTERS—THE TELEPHONE. 289 Prussia, and finally reached Russia early in 1870. He died inSt. Petersburg after a few days illness, on the 2 3d of February. Now see what the telegraph did. His death occurredabout half-past nine in the morning. As soon as…
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