[D9238AAC], Letter from Julius Mount Bleyer to Thomas Alva Edison, March 6th, 1892
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Mr. Ballon 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 [illegible] 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 [illegible] 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 t"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 Note & 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—[illegible] I Have the Honour to Remain Always Yours Dr. J. Mount Bleyer TAE marginalia: Write & say that I will have a phonograph specially got up for very accurate & sensitive [illegible] give this letter to Ballon--- also say that I am away & will Let him know what I return [canceled] Don’t let me forget this E[dison]