Green, Cornell & Lowrey in Washn for Senate vote on RR teleg bill. "Green said today, there was a time when they might have given me something for the purpose of controlling you as they though I had some influence with you, but since they have got you so firmly bound that you cannot get away from them, they would not give me a farthing---He further said that they were not even using your Quadruplex they having wholly superceded it--who is their genius now?" [Encloses clipping about Green in Capitol.]

Reiff, Josiah Custer

Edison, Thomas Alva

Green, Norvin

1879-02-12

1870-1879

Letter

National government (U.S.)

Multiple telegraphy (duplex, quadruplex)

D7936H

D7936

[D7936H], Letter from Josiah Custer Reiff to Thomas Alva Edison, February 12th, 1879

51:851

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University