[LB012170], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edward Hibberd Johnson, April 26th, 1882
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[LB012170], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edward Hibberd Johnson, April 26th, 1882
Editor's Notes
Your letter in which you speak so emphatically as to your never leaving America when once you get back has [reached] me but of my idea of going to England. If you are so fearfully anxious to get back then I think it would be foolish for me to go over: In fact I [---] not give the [word] to [proceed] [----] so if I can possibly get out of it by causing the [----] to [---] it will [s---] you may be [---].##My figures in the [----] [domestic] machine are the same as those of John [----] in his [test] at the [H---] Institute with this [exception] that I believe that [all] his [tests] were against the machine##I shall accept your recommendation to have all the Paris exhibits other than those belonging to [the] [----] Light shipped to Menlo park but you [can] [----] this as your authority to [----] and do [the] same as soon as proper time as [arrival]. I am under the impression that I [work] you on [---] to you that you were to have [5]% of the [Oriental] sale. If I did not I certainly intended you should have it & therefore [---] you & Gouraud to that [effect].##I fully understand about [----] [Patent] arrangement. I am to pay for Electric Light just as I would for entirely [----] matters. Have [Hanford] send on his bills & wI will remit for the amount.##I am glad you speak so well of Hammer. The [----] [---ment] and work which [the] [young] man but to [---] at Menlo the advance of all silver spoon business and his intelligence and ambition account for it. I am glad that you are going to get him into a good position and hope you will get him as much salary as possible with a chance of increase.##I send you a little clipping from Sundays Times which will interest you as [---ting] the [----] of the [illegible] lighting swindle##With such men at the head of affairs and [instructed] as you say you have instructed them and with men we can send from here to aid in the construction of dynamos I do not see why you cannot come home. My thoughts do not flow freely today I have been in bed two or three weeks and this is the second day I have been able to get out to business & my thoughts are still very [sketchy] so [------] send the [--ffy] till some other time.##I got great enjoyment from reading your letters as I think it would be just as well for you to stay where you are as when you get back here there will be no letters for me to read!!!
Author
Recipient
Mentioned
Date
1882-04-26
Type
Subject
Folder/Volume ID
LB012-F
Microfilm ID
81:593
Document ID
LB012170
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University