[D9211ABK], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to New York and New Jersey Telephone Co, William Dunlap Sargent, July 15th, 1892
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July 15, 1892. W. D. Sargent, Esq., Gen’l. Manager, New York & New Jersey Telephone Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I duly received your letter of 11th instant in regard to the Ogden telephone line, and submitted the same to Mr. Edison, who directs me to say to you that it is very unlikely we should have abandoned the telephone and gone back to the telegraph if we could have got any satisfaction from the former. We needed the telephone very badly and it was only sheer necessity that drove us to abandon it. Your Superintendent has received previous complaints from Mr. Edison personally concerning the trouble experienced on the line; therefore the statement contained in your letter to the effect that has no complaints were over rec’d. prior to the receipt of Mr. Edison’s letter is erroneous. Yours very truly, Private Sec’y.