[D0103AAL2], Telephone Message from Thomas Alva Edison to Richard Nott Dyer, October 17th, 1901
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Telephone Message from R.N. Dyer Oct. 17, 1901 Mr. Edison: We have this morning a letter from Hayes initialed by Pelzer stating that he has forwarded to the patent office an assignment of storage battery patents and applications. We are surprised that the job of transferring matters in our hands should be taken out of our office. In looking at the list Pelzer gives in his letter, we see that, as might be expected that he has the situation all balled up. Some of his application numbers are wrong, he refers to applications where he should refer to patents and he refers to at least one application and probably two which by agreement by you are to be abandoned because other applications have been filed in their place and because of an unfavorable record in the patent office. These applications were not to be disclosed and the assignment will give the public information about them. We think you should telephone Pelzer to telegraph the patent office today to return the assignment without recording. R,N. Dyer Telephone Message to H.W. Hayes. Hayes: You better do what Dyer asks to keep things smooth, answer. Edison