[D0204AAH], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Roger W Wallace, June 1902
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/D0204AAH
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Letterhead of the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison Orange, N. J. My Dear Wallace _ I suppose Dick has already told you that I proposed to stand put on the battery [illegible overstruck handwriting] & not no matter what the consequences may be consolidate with anybody = you are under a misapprehension about my employing chemists and that they have wrongly advised me, I never employed a chemist in working up this Gallery I do my own chemical work, Regarding the Battery in England I have placed it in the hands of Mr Dick & when Everything is ready he will come over prepared to talk business [illegible overstruck handwriting] and if you are not on the cheap I shall be very much mistaken as both Mr Dick & myself have a very high regard for you, but the Jungner branch of the [illegible] we shall have nothing to do with Yours E <Randolph send this to Dick & get his [illegible] before it's sent to Wallace> <Dick change this letter to whatever you think would be proper return> <Edison> [TAE Marginalia] <Mr Edison [illegible] [illegible] in this [illegible]>