This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
In any event the contract is, of course, complete on receipt of the telegram,1 or letter,2 if the offer is still open. If A's letter incloses a written contract signed by A with a request to B to sign it and return to A if satisfactory, B's act in signing such contract and returning it to A is an acceptance of A's offer, at least upon A's receipt thereof; and A can not thereafter revoke.3
 
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