[D8966ABM], Letter from U.S. Post Office Dept. Foreign Mails, Nicholas Montgomery Bell to Thomas Alva Edison, April 20th, 1889
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[D8966ABM], Letter from U.S. Post Office Dept. Foreign Mails, Nicholas Montgomery Bell to Thomas Alva Edison, April 20th, 1889
Editor's Notes
Washington D.C. April 20th, 1889####Sir:--####I have to acknowledge the receipt of your reply, under yesterday's date, to my letter of the 30th.ultimo, No.85, in which you advise this Department that you are preparing the Phonoplex Telegraph Apparatus which you intend to present to the German Postal Administration for exhibition in the Imperial Postal Museum in Berlin, and that you will forward it to this Department as soon as it is ready, for transmission to Germany; and also requesting that the packages presented to you by the German Office may be forwarded to you at Orange, New Jersey.####In reply, I have to inform you that the (3) packages in question, in the original wrappers, have been transmitted to you by today's mail, registered, under covers addressed to Professor Thomas A. Edison, Orange, Essex County, New Jersey.####I am, very respectfully,####Your obedient servant,####Nicholas M Bell####Superintendent Foreign Mails.####Professor Thomas A, Edison,####Orange,####New Jersey####[name mentions: Germany, Post Office, Imperial Postal Museum, Nicholas Bell, Thos Edison, US Post Office Dept. Foreign Mails]
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Date
1889-04-20
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Folder/Volume ID
D8966-F
Microfilm ID
128:294
Document ID
D8966ABM
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University