[D8805ACT], Letter from Eadweard Muybridge to Thomas Alva Edison, May 12th, 1888
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- Title
- [D8805ACT], Letter from Eadweard Muybridge to Thomas Alva Edison, May 12th, 1888
- Editor's Notes
- "I have this day mailed to you address of catalogue of the plates [?] of animal locomotion. ### If agreeable to you, I should prefer for you to make a personal selection of the plates for copy, if however you cannot spare the time to do so, I will gladly relieve you of the trouble if you will kindly return the enclosed blank marked with the qualities of each respective class of subjects you require and I which my judgment in the matter will meet your approval. Since you found me with a demonstration of the capabilities of your marvellous phonograph I have thought much and earnestly of its destined place in our every day life. Some ideas with regard to conveying the sounds from a piano or other musical instrument have suggested themselves which however I have no doubt you have long since tried and rejected as impracticable, but I will venture to remark that if you devote a little of your genius to the construction or adaptation of a piano, you will soon succeed in inventing one which will serve your purposes more effectively than one in which the necessity exists for conveying the sound by means of a wire connected with the frame work. I trust to you some nature not to consider me [unclear] and am yours faithfully." Eadweard Muybridge [Includes a subscriber card] [Marginalia: [Tell them to make the selection for me"]
- Author
- Muybridge, Eadweard
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1888-05-12
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- D8805-F
- Microfilm ID
- 121:330
- Document ID
- D8805ACT
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 121