[LB014399A], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, George Harrison Bliss, November 8th, 1882
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[LB014399A], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, George Harrison Bliss, November 8th, 1882
Editor's Notes
Your favor of 1st as to Litigation came duly back hand.##I do not at all agree with you as to the advisability of immediately bringing suit against Infringers. To do so would require me to give my personal attention to the matter & take me off other far more important work, besides involving us in a great deal of expense & giving our opponents a notoriety which it is hardly desirable they should gain at our expense.[text missing] Directors of the Light Co wanted to bring suit against the Maxim people. I objected giving the above reasons. Today the Maxim people are worse off than they ever have been before they have lost at least half a million dollars, their fine Factory is now used for our work & every lamp they put out is an expense to them whereas every one we put out is a profit to us. Or in other words we are doing a good paying business & they are doing none that is of practical commercial value.##You can show economy & give guarantees which they can never give & on this [your] business should be [---] when they [---] affect our business then we shall have reason to sue them but so long as their work is conducive to their own ruin I see no reason for attacking them
Author
Mentioned
Date
1882-11-08
Type
Folder/Volume ID
LB014-F
Microfilm ID
81:998
Document ID
LB014399A
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University