[D8713AAV], Letter from Charles O Farrar to Thomas Alva Edison, October 24th, 1887
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- Title
- [D8713AAV], Letter from Charles O Farrar to Thomas Alva Edison, October 24th, 1887
- Editor's Notes
- Am an unemployed mechanical draughtsman; read that you are building a new lab and would like to work there; could you give me a chance?"; "am a neat rapid draughtsman well up in my business; am at home working among machines, and electrical matters is one of my hobbies, mechanics being the other."###Have considerable knowledge of "the laws and workings of electricity and electrical machines and am constantly thinking and trying to invent something or things that I may make a name in the world like others who have risen from nothing . . ."###Have enclosed a stamp for you to reply. [Marg.: "trial 2 weeks salary 15.00 week to start with if [illegible] good more"] [Marg. 2: "file in list of Applicants]
- Author
- Farrar, Charles O
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Mentioned
- West Orange Laboratory
- Date
- 1887-10-24
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- Labor
- Folder ID
- D8713-F
- Microfilm ID
- 119:500
- Document ID
- D8713AAV
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 119