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Manuscript/Mixed Material American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Telegram from Dwight L. Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford

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Title

  • American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Telegram from Dwight L. Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford

Names

  • American Colony (Jerusalem)
  • Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923
  • Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 (Author)
  • Spafford, Horatio Gates, 1828-1888 (Addressee)

Created / Published

  • Unpublished telegram, January 10, 1874

Headings

  • -  Spafford, Horatio G., 1828-1888
  • -  Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923
  • -  Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899--Portrait
  • -  Evangelism--Religious consolation
  • -  Manuscripts
  • -  Correspondence
  • -  Scotland -- Edinburgh
  • -  England -- London

Genre

  • Manuscripts
  • Correspondence

Notes

  • -  Handwritten cable message, Post Office Telegraphs Co. Originating in Edinburgh; received 11 Queens Square, Bloomsbury, London. Dated stamp London Jan. 10, 1874.
  • -  Evangelist Moody invites Horatio Gates Spafford and Anna Spafford to join him, in order to offer consolation after the deaths of their children in the shipwreck of the Ville du Havre.

Medium

  • telegram 9" x 7"

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Part I, Box 1, Folder 7: American Colony in Jerusalem
  • series: Part I: Topical File, 1871-2004

Source Collection

  • American Colony in Jerusalem Collection

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

American Colony, Anna T Spafford, Dwight Lyman Moody, and Horatio Gates Spafford. American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Telegram from Dwight L. Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford. Unpublished telegram, 1874. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.012/.

APA citation style:

American Colony, Spafford, A. T., Moody, D. L. & Spafford, H. G. (1874) American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Telegram from Dwight L. Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford. Unpublished telegram. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.012/.

MLA citation style:

American Colony, et al. American Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Telegram from Dwight L. Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford. Unpublished telegram, 1874. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.012/>.