Love letters to Spike
Subtitle: a telegrapher's lament, with a brief, eclectic history of communications in the seacoast
By: by Bill Holly.
Contributors: Waldron, Herbert D., 1888-1968.
Publisher: Placenames Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Portsmouth, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780976759058
Subjects: Waldron, Herbert D., -- 1888-1968 -- Correspondence.; Glen, Grace I.; Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.) -- History.; Telegraphers -- New Hampshire -- Portsmouth -- Correspondence.; Transatlantic cables -- History.; Portsmouth (N.H.) -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: Includes reproductions of letters written in 1914 by telegrapher Herbert Waldron of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to his fiance in Connecticut. Commentary and background information provide context for a glimpse of Portsmouth life during the growth of the communications industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 81-84).