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X-WR-CALDESC:23 November 1866: The first encoded American diplomatic telegr
 am\, sent by Secretary of State William Seward.\n\nExcerpt below is from R
 alph E. Weber's 'Seward's Other Folly: America's First Encrypted Cable' (P
 DF available on the NSA.gov site - see link at end of page.)\n\nSeward's o
 riginal plain-text message of 780 words\, when encoded\, grew to 1\,237 nu
 mber groups\, with an additional 88 code symbols spelled out. There were a
 lso more than 35 transmission errors and it took more than six hours to tr
 ansmit. And the cable was quite expensive.... although the bill for Septem
 ber and October of that year had been just under $80 each month\, the bill
  for just the 23 November encoded message was $19\,540.50. The total bill 
 for November was just under $25\,000 (equal to the salary of the President
  and three times the Seward's salary!) The Secretary of State was unwillin
 g and unable to pay the charges.
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DESCRIPTION:23 November 1866: The first encoded American diplomatic telegra
 m\, sent by Secretary of State William Seward.\n\nExcerpt below is from Ra
 lph E. Weber's 'Seward's Other Folly: America's First Encrypted Cable' (PD
 F available on the NSA.gov site - see link at end of page.)\n\nSeward's or
 iginal plain-text message of 780 words\, when encoded\, grew to 1\,237 num
 ber groups\, with an additional 88 code symbols spelled out. There were al
 so more than 35 transmission errors and it took more than six hours to tra
 nsmit. And the cable was quite expensive.... although the bill for Septemb
 er and October of that year had been just under $80 each month\, the bill 
 for just the 23 November encoded message was $19\,540.50. The total bill f
 or November was just under $25\,000 (equal to the salary of the President 
 and three times the Seward's salary!) The Secretary of State was unwilling
  and unable to pay the charges.
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SUMMARY:1866: First Encoded American Diplomatic Telegram
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