[D8959AEM], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Samuel Insull, September 18th, 1889
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- Title
- [D8959AEM], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Samuel Insull, September 18th, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- [Another 5 pages from London re: Gouaud's phonograph order & trying to get out from under Gouraud] "....I feel disheartened and discouraged and that you have not given enough consideratoin to the alternative which I proposed. When Mr. Edison came to Paris he told me he would tell Gouraud that he had turned his business over to you and I was here representing you, and decline to talk business with him---which I urged him to do believeing I could convince you I was right and convert you to my views---but instead of this mr. E. talked up an [illeg] business and almost everything has gone contrary to the way I would have shaped it---and you cannot wonder that I ask myself 'What did I come over here for.' ## I am much more afraid of the phonograph marketd by Gouraud, killing itself, than I am of the graphophone injuring our prospects, even tho' the country were flooded with them. Mr. Edison is still in Germany. I do not know yet when he will reach England but expect definite advice some time today." [Encloses Gouraud's 14 Sept. letter D8959AEN]
- Author
- Tate, Alfred Ord
- Recipient
- Insull, Samuel
- Date
- 1889-09-18
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- D8959-F
- Microfilm ID
- 127:906
- Document ID
- D8959AEM
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 127
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal