[curtting Gilliland into North American deal?] [printed version of cable]: "If Lippincott agrees condition named in my cable have Tomlinson's friend, Lawyer Kitchen, draw contract. Lippincott pays twenty-five thousand cash; gives his own three notes, fiftythousand each, payable fifteenth November, December, January next, with all stock originally issued me as collateral security. I have privilegge cancel any note before maturity take stock instead sixty-five dollars share you authorized sign."

Gilliland, Ezra Torrance

Bruch, Charles Patterson

Lippincott, Jesse H

Kitchen, John H

1888-10-01

1880-1889

Telegram

Stocks, bonds, and investments

Contracts and other legal concerns

Cylinder phonograph

HX88023E

HX88

[HX88023E], Telegram from Ezra Torrance Gilliland to Charles Patterson Bruch, October 1st, 1888

145:189

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University