Autograph letter signed, probably to Latimer Clark

Blavier, Edouard Erneste (1826-87). A.L.s. to an unidentified correspondent, probably Latimer Clark. Nancy, June 16, 1865. 4pp. 212 x 138 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark.

Blavier was an inspector of telegraph lines for the French government, and an author of several books on electricity and telegraphy. In his letter he asks the aid of his correspondent in explaining a diagram of the apparatus used on the ship Agamemnon to lay the first Atlantic cable in 1857. Origins of Cyberspace 121.