Telegrams may not be as widespread as they once were, but through companies such as the International Telegram Company they remain perhaps the most elegant way to send a message since 1844....

This page describes and illustrates the two types of telegram: the standard and the greetings type, both sent and received through the Post Office. It explains how people sent them and how they were delivered by telegraph boys. Charges are also included. ____

Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese[1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters. It originated in the telegraph age when telecommunication consisted only of short messages transmitted by hand over the telegraph wire.

In this article, we will take a journey through the evolution of the Telegram and explore what it looked like at different stages of its development. The Early Years (1830s-1850s)

Sending a telegram was different depending on whether the person sending it had ready access to a phone. If not - as was usual with ordinary people before the 1950s - they would go to the local post office and send it from there.