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Source: http://rs6.loc.gov/mss/mcc/019/0001.jpg Text: This sentence was written from Washington by me at the Baltimore Terminus at 8:45 A.M. on Friday May 24, 1844, being the first ever transmitted from Washington to Baltimore by Telegraph and was indited by my much loved friend Annie G. Ellsworth. {signature-Sam F. B. Morse.} Superintendent of Elec. Mag. Telegraphs.

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