[LB033082], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to William B Somerville, October 9th, 1889
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[LB033082], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to William B Somerville, October 9th, 1889
Editor's Notes
I have received your very kind letter 8th instant, informing me that the Lotos Club desires to extend to me certain hospitality in the shape of a dinner.##When I acquaint you with the state of my system you will not be surprised nor consider me ungrateful for having trembled when I read your note, and I feel that I can count upon your assistance in saving me from meeting with a fate in my own country that I barely escaped while abroad—the complete disruption of my internal apparatus.##Eight days on the ocean have failed to repair the damage done to my digestion by a series of French dinners which it was impossible for me to avoid. I bore up bravely and ate everything that was set before me, like a plain American citizen, and I have returned a perfect wreck. I momentarily expect a violent attack of gout which will probably end up in blood poisoning and have four doctors watching me night and day.##It is not so much of myself that I think, but I have a young family to which I [unclear] is duty and for its sake I want to enlist your sympathy and get you to obtain me a respite of at least a month until my present symptoms have had time to develop. If I still live at the end of that I time I will be glad to report to you upon my condition and consider further the acceptance of the generous invitation of the Lotos Club. Sincerely yours, [signed] TAE [subsequently accepts invitation and then goes out of town and can't attend]
Author
Recipient
Mentioned
Date
1889-10-09
Type
Folder/Volume ID
LB033-F
Microfilm ID
139:735
Document ID
LB033082
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University