James W. Queen & Co of Chicago are offering our lamps for sale in quantities to suit purchasers at $200 by quantity or $5.00 single lamp. the lamps are mostly [Bu] that they have on hand and without the plaster socket. As these lamps have certainly not gone through the channels of the Co. it looks as though they may have been surreptitously removed from the factory, and I would advise you to take some steps to prevent any thing of that kind, and to [----] if possible the source of this [supply]

Edison, Thomas Alva

Edison Lamp Co

Upton, Francis Robbins

Queen (James W.) & Co

1882-07-05

1880-1889

Letter

Sales and service

Incandescent lamp

LB007667A

LB007

[LB007667A], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edison Lamp Co, Francis Robbins Upton, July 5th, 1882

80:717

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

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