[D9226AAF], Letter from Sherburne Blake Eaton to Thomas Alva Edison, July 15th, 1892
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New York July 15, 1892 Thomas A. Edison, Esq. Dear Sir: Re English Patents. Since writing you on the 13th inst. asking for information, I have come across a copy of your letter of November 9th, 1886, to Secretary Flood Page of the Edison Swan Co, relating to your English Patents, also the original reply from the same party to you dated May 10th, 1887. I send these references thinking they may assist your office in hunting up the desired information. Will you kindly tell me just what patents the Edison-Swan Co. acquired pursuant to this correspondence, as well as otherwise. Did any of the patents which you thus assigned bear date subsequent to February 18, 1882, and if so, what? I find an important statement made in the above letter of May 10th, 1887, from Flood Page to you, viz: that his Company “has nothing whatever to do with you electric railway patents” and that they therefore decline to reimburse you therefor. Flood Page now tells Philip Dyer that his Company claims your electric railway inventions. Thus the above extract becomes important. Will you kindly see that this matter receives early attention, if agreeable, and oblige, Very truly yours, Sherburne Blake Eaton