[D8914AAR], Letter from Orville D La Dow to Alfred Ord Tate, June 7th, 1889
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- Title
- [D8914AAR], Letter from Orville D La Dow to Alfred Ord Tate, June 7th, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- "Will you permit me to thank you for the courtesy of your letter of the 6th instant. There is no immediate hurry for my nephew’s employment. As I said in my letter of May 27th, this is by no means a routine application for employment. I believe that he could be unusually helpful in Mr. Edison’s Laboratory, and the first of October will suit as well as at present. As I have already said, my nephew knew nothing whatever of my writing to you, and my sole motive in so doing was prompted by a desire to do good to a fellow-man. I though it a pity to see much talents as I know are undeveloped in him go to waste. He has, within the past forty-eight hours, demonstrated, through work on a machine which I have patented and which I am developing, that he possesses marvelous mechanical genius, and I know that if you good people at Orange interest yourselves in him to the extent of letting him come to your Laboratory, that you will never regret it. I can furnish you with abundant evidence of my own reputation, and after I have established that with you I will stake it all upon the statements I have made in this letter."
- Author
- La Dow, Orville D
- Recipient
- Tate, Alfred Ord
- Date
- 1889-06-07
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- Labor
- Folder ID
- D8914-F
- Microfilm ID
- 125:805
- Document ID
- D8914AAR
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 125
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal