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Send a Valentine's Day e-Telegram!

We're in love with this 1939 Western Union Valentine's Day telegram record from our National Museum of American History archives, and we thought you might be too! Know anyone else who would enjoy it? Make history come alive for them by using the form below to share a modern Valentine's Day e-telegram!

Western Union Telegraph Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
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There is a wish in every line of this modern Valentine.

You're lovely and sweet, a treasure divine. You're all I want for my Valentine.

Give me just a little sign that you will be my Valentine.

I know I'm lucky because you're mine; you'll always be my Valentine.

Love may be the last word in some telegrams but it's first in this one.

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