My first and last telegram was from Rebecca West
bryanrasmussen
35 points
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November 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
ctoth
At the risk of being the LMGTFY guy: https://claude.ai/share/b84c491e-3480-4407-ae76-b6cf63ee551d
pradn
Telegrams have a quaint connotation these days I suppose. In old Indian movies, a Telegram would only arrive to signify really bad news - someone died, or something like that. Why else would you pay for that expense? Well, it could also be a job interview or posting. So the connotation there, in that time, was probably not so good.
greasegum
I didn't realize RW was cold like that.
buran77
> Not long ago I received my first and last telegram > I found this telegram tucked into a passage on the Jewish community in Sarajevo [...] The recipient of the telegram was Ann Cottrell Free I dare say he didn't receive, he found, and it's not his but someone else's telegram.