[LB048019], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Henry Swift De Forest, February 26th, 1891
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[LB048019], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Henry Swift De Forest, February 26th, 1891
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Date
1891-02-26
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LB048-F
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142:7
Document ID
LB048019
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Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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February 26, 1891
Rev. H.S. DeForest, D.D, President,
Talladega College,
Talladega, Alabama.
Dear Sir:—
Upon Mr. Edison’s return to the Laboratory a few days a go after an absence of several weeks your letter of 12th instant was handed to him, and in answer to the question contained therein: “Which is the better education at Yale College or a Scientific one at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale—” the same having particular reference to your son, who you say has a taste for machinery and inventions, Mr. Edison would advise sending the young man to the Sheffield Scientific School. A Classical education would be excellent were you going to make a lawyer of your son, but the instruction which he will doubtless receive at the Sheffield Scientific School will better fit him for a mechanical occupation.
Yours very truly,
A. O. Tate
Private Secretary
Rev. H.S. DeForest, D.D, President,
Talladega College,
Talladega, Alabama.
Dear Sir:—
Upon Mr. Edison’s return to the Laboratory a few days a go after an absence of several weeks your letter of 12th instant was handed to him, and in answer to the question contained therein: “Which is the better education at Yale College or a Scientific one at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale—” the same having particular reference to your son, who you say has a taste for machinery and inventions, Mr. Edison would advise sending the young man to the Sheffield Scientific School. A Classical education would be excellent were you going to make a lawyer of your son, but the instruction which he will doubtless receive at the Sheffield Scientific School will better fit him for a mechanical occupation.
Yours very truly,
A. O. Tate
Private Secretary