[D8959AEL], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Samuel Insull, September 18th, 1889
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- Title
- [D8959AEL], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Samuel Insull, September 18th, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- "I have your repetitions of Gouraud's cable re: shipment of first 50 machines, and in which he advises you that he has mailed directions for second 50---these making the first hundred named in Edisn's cable to you from Paris. ## I have just wired you as follows: 'Cable should read fifteen battery machines and five machines for electric light circuit in addition to treadles ship as Gouraud directs so we can hold his order.' I do no understand your cable 13th in which you say 'Edison wired orders thousand already firm. Shipment one hundred first week certain two hundred thereafter &c &c.' The cable sent you 9th inst from Paris, and which I confirmed on Saturday last, says 'Wants hundred immediately when can you ship them [ileg] 25 weekly May want additional hundred shipped South America this week. Can you furnish these &c.' ## I mailed you on Saturday last the letter from Gouraud referred to in Mr Edison's cable from Paris 9th inst to yourself, as 'satisfactory confirmation order thousand machines' from which you will see that we had every reason to supposed that Gouraud wanted 100 machines immediately. ## While he has not carried out to the letter the intentions implied in his communication, the discrepancy between what he has done, and what we expected him to do is not sufficient to give us an opportunity of doing anything other than quarrel with him--which is abolusutely useless. ## This order for 1,000 machines may give us an opportunity to put Gouraud in a hole before he is through with it and it is better for us to take practical recognition of it and get it started....."
- Author
- Tate, Alfred Ord
- Recipient
- Insull, Samuel
- Date
- 1889-09-18
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- D8959-F
- Microfilm ID
- 127:904
- Document ID
- D8959AEL
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 127