[LB021438], Letter from Samuel Insull to Thomas Alva Edison, March 18th, 1886
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[LB021438], Letter from Samuel Insull to Thomas Alva Edison, March 18th, 1886
Editor's Notes
Your wire from Fort Myers arrived this a.m. I at once sent you some long letters which I have had waiting on my desk for an address for some days past. It has been impossible to keep you posted as you have not kept me well supplied with addresses. I have wired St. Augustine [FLORIDA], Palatka, and Sanford to send any letters for you to Fort Myers, as both Dyer and myself have written you to one or the other of those places. ##I wired you today that Rudd had reported that he has been able to work the Railway Telegraph over a distance of 40 miles. The sound comes just as well as over a very short distance and Rudd has no doubt but what it will work equally as well over a much longer distance. The Chicago Mil. St. Paul officials have issued a thousand invitations for a public exhibition to Railway and newspaper men. This exhibition is to take place on Friday. I have not sold any stock beyond the first 140 shares for you. I am trying to sell 200 shares more and I have put the price at 35, but if I cannot make a sale at that price, I shall come down to 30. ##My previous letters explain the rest of my telegram. ##I have just received a message from Batchelor asking me to start right off to Chicago for the Machine Works and as I have only an hour or so before {the} train leaves, I must close. ##I shall wire you from Chicago as to the Railway Telegraph exhibition and will write you from there. I shall be back in New York Sunday p.m.
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Date
1886-03-18
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Folder/Volume ID
LB021-F
Microfilm ID
83:514
Document ID
LB021438
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University