[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
Recipient
Date
1889-06-07
Type
Subject
Folder/Volume ID
D8914-F
Microfilm ID
125:805
Document ID
D8914AAR
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University