In TAE's hand. "Here is an item I want you to read ## From the day we started the Isolated Co to date I have wanted the agency biz worked as other people do it. This man makes a specialety = I see now hope of eve[-] having my plan Carried out, and the nearest we will ever get to it is to secure Davis of Sawyer Man [----] & at almost any price. Let us hire their best men from all the Cos & at once -- ## I would be willing to best [bet?] they sold these plants without our knowledge 1/2 anyway --" Marginalia by Edward Hibberd Johnson: "find out from the agent how they came to lose these plants"

Edison, Thomas Alva

Johnson, Edward Hibberd

Edison Company for Isolated Lighting

Sawyer-Man Electric Co

1887-09-00

1880-1889

Letter

Competition and market structure

Sales and service

Labor

D8732ABK

D8732

[D8732ABK], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edward Hibberd Johnson, September 1887

119:844

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

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