[D9201AAF], Letter from Dick (A.B.) Co, J F Howison to Alfred Ord Tate, May 25th, 1892
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[Letterhead of A.B.Dick Company] Philadelphia, May 25th, 1892. Mr. A.O. Tate, Private Sec., Menlo Park, N.J. My Dear Sir: If agreeable to Mr. Edison will you kindly have him write in his own handwriting a short stencil of about 10 lines on the Mimeograph and send to us? We would like to have some specimens of Mimeograph work if possible in his own handwriting. We sincerely trust that you may find it consistent with your custom to favor us as intimated. Very truly yours, <A.B. Dick Company> The patents of Thomas A. Edison under which the Mimeograph are manufactured cover broadly all methods of functioning a sheet of paper or similar material with numerous small holes filling such holes with a same liquid ink, and pressing the same upon the surface to be printed. We are extensive advertisers, and spend a great deal of money in printer's ink, but we spend twice the amount of postage stamps and portal cards in personal and individual advertising. Newspapers, magazines, and weeklies are fine medium, through which to reach the trade, but our experience, and it has been quite extensive, has taught us the value of the circular, personally addressed type-written circulars and postal cards as business searchers. In this, we use our EDISON MIMEOGRAPH, as you are doubtless aware; if this has been a good thing for us, it will effect like results for you, and we venture to give you this suggestion as to the best manner of conducting this system of advertising. This is Mimeograph work. Send for circular and specimens. A.B. Dick Company, 117 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa. THIS IS A SPECIMEN OF WORK DONE ON THE "MIMEOGRAPH" RAILROAD DEP'TS use it in issuing orders tariffs etc. MANUFACTURERS use it sending out circulars soliciting business, instituting agents etc. JOBBERS use it in sending out price listing to customers, notifying their trade of any special bargains they have to offer, etc. RETAIL STORES use it advantageously in sending circulars direct to their customers soliciting trade. It can also be used in printing office/stationary. The MIMEOGRAPH can be used for many purposes in all kinds of business, music sketching, drawings, maps, in fact anything that can be done with a lead pencil can be made successfully by the MIMEOGRAPH process, and its range or scope of work is practically unlimited THIS IS A SPECIMEN OF SHORTHAND NOTES DUPLICATED BY THE MIMEOGRAPH [diagram of water tube boiler] WATER-TUBE BOILER. THIS IS A SPECIMEN OF MIMEOGRAPH WORK AND WILL SHOW THE CAPACITY OF THE MACHINE FOR REPRODUCIING ANY AND ALL KINDS OF MECHANICAL DRAWINGS A.B. DICK COMPANY PHILA, PA.