The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Pacific? Is It?

Anonymous. "Pacific? Is It?." Vanity Fair, November 9, 1861, 212.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
Abstract

Bittersweet reporting that the Pacific has been connected to the Atlantic by telegraph. The first message is interpreted by the Vanity Fair as a slight.