Note 992 — Chapter XXXV · CONKLING DOWN AND OUT 1881
Reading edition
For full text of telegram see New York Tribune, January 7, 1882. This confidential despatch found its way into the public press. "It must have been stolen from the wires," wrote Hay. "Nobody but myself has ever seen it—not even Garfield. I read it to him. It has been under lock and key ever since."—Mrs. James G. Blaine, Letters, Vol. 1, p. 286.