[D9238AAC], Letter from Julius Mount Bleyer to Thomas Alva Edison, March 6th, 1892
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/D9238AAC
Transcription
Mr. Ballou 12 March, 1892 Letterhead: Dr. J Mount Bleyer Specialist Throat and Nose. Consultation hours 9 to [4?]:30 P.M. Thomas A. Edison Sunday March 6, 91 My Dear Sir:- I am finishing my book upon the "The Phonograph…" all services if you possess any new points gathered from your last labours on it you would favour me very much by allowing me to become the possessor of them. I would be pleased to call at the Laboratory any time providing you would extend such an invitation. This no doubt would aid [me] much in bringing out certain points more favourably. Since last year I have made many important experiments with your machine in our science and at present I am able to use it to much advantage. On Tuesday I deliver the last clinical lecture at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in the children's Department--- The subject will be The Phonograph and Its Future, with many valuable gathered clinical records made from all kinds of diseases of the Respiratory organs--- Can I beg you to present to the N.Y. Infirmary of the Diseases of Nose & Throat a Phonograph so that we will be able to further the already practical uses of it? This would confer the greatest of favours to us--- If this were possible I beg of you to do this. You will also thereby further the studies of our science--- I will be pleased to accept the same by having it put to use- which I will donate to the Institution in your--- Hoping to hear from you—Sir with This I Have the Honour To Be Always Yours Dr. J. Mount Bleyer TAE marginalia: Write & say that I will have a phonograph specially got up for very accurate & sensitive [work] give this letter to Ballou--- also say that I am away & will Let him know what I return [if not] Don’t let me forget this E