[D9202AAO], Letter from Sherburne Blake Eaton to Thomas Alva Edison, February 17th, 1892
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New York, Feb. 17, 1892 Ans Feb. 18/92 [TAE Marginalia] Eaton I think you best arrange with Hughes to carry out your suggestion E Dear Mr. Edison: Mr. Vansize went to the old Menlo Park Buildings today to see if he could find out whether your old electric railway motor had a flexibility supported frame, in order to use that fact as an anticipation against the Adams patent, in the case of Adams Co. v. Lindell Co., at St. Louis, defended by us. Vansize [illegible] exactly what he wanted. Your frame supported on an india rubber cushion. That is very fortunate for us. Vanasize says that the doors are open and the windows out in all the buildings except the two storey office, and that several drawings and a good many old models are being kicked about and lost. He says that they have even taken two layers of wire from the electric motor which is itself exposed to the elements and going to ruin in the broken down old shed. The fact that we have found what Vansize was looking for in this emergency, shows how important it is that all the odds and ends at Menlo Park should be collected and stored in safe place, including the old electric railway motor. It would pay the General Co. and Light Co. jointly to pay the expense of doing this. I suggest that you give authority to whomsoever you may select, to collect everything together and store it In the two storey brick office building, which is now locked and in good condition. Or store it elsewhere, everything in the same place, for safe keeping. Mr. Hughes went to Menlo Park with Mr. Vansize, and if he were not too busy, would he not be a good man to do the work at Menlo Park which I have suggested above. Very truly yours, S.B. Eaton