(15 June 1872). James Gordon Bennett Versus The Telegraph, Journal of the Telegraph, p. 166 (this 1872 article reports that the message was the January 1847 message of new governor John Young; the 1886 New York Times obituary of Erastus Brooks reports it was the January 1845 message of Silas Wright, but that appears to be incorrect as the New York-Albany telegraph line was not completed until sometime in 1846)