recd cable about Bell people putting on injunction on our receivers with magnet. However it is perhaps best that Bells patent be sustained because if left open to the public(?) it might damage us . . . The new receiver is such an enormous advance in telegraphy. . . In fact with the carbon transmitter and this receiver we have control of telephony for the future, so be careful . . . (expts with light)

Edison, Thomas Alva

Gouraud, George Edward

American Bell Telephone Co

Morgan, Junius Spencer

Bell, Alexander Graham

Carr, Lewis

Depew, Chauncey Mitchell

Batchelor, Charles

Adams, James

Erlanger, Emil

Griffin, Stockton L

Vanderbilt, William Henry

1878-10-14

1870-1879

Letter

Stocks, bonds, and investments

Telephone

Electric light and power

LB003408

LB003

[LB003408], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to George Edward Gouraud, October 14th, 1878

28:841

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

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