Excerpt from The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher: Adapted to Use in General Correspondence; Including Business, Social, Political, and All Other Subjects of Correspondence It is the outgrowth from what, at first, consisted of various special codes, adapted to special businesses, which were quite limited in Scope, and later, of more general codes of wider scope. At last a demand comes for one which will embrace all subjects of correspond ence, and this work is designed to meet it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.