[D8547ZAJ], Letter from Samuel Insull to Thomas Alva Edison, July 1885
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- Title
- [D8547ZAJ], Letter from Samuel Insull to Thomas Alva Edison, July 1885
- Editor's Notes
- Informs TAE of negotiation with Adams over 15,635 shares of Oriental; told Adams the shares "would be a bargain at $9,000 (3 times what Adams offered) and asked him to see what his London friends would give; notes that the price "I am figuring on is more than c50 a share which would only net $7817.50"; TAE owns 14,500 shares, the rest belong to Batchelor and EHJ (Johnson).## Attachment. "TAE This is what I got from Adams I supplied to him as follows "I am of the opinion that the 15,635 shares of Oriental Telephone Co. (B shares) would be a bargain at $9,000 — three times the amount you mention cannot you communicate with your London friends & see what they would give for them.'"
- Author
- Insull, Samuel
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1885-07-00
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- D8547-F
- Microfilm ID
- 78:870
- Document ID
- D8547ZAJ
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 78
- Item sets
- [D8547-F] (D-85-47) Telephone