[LB040150], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to United Edison Manufacturing Co, April 23rd, 1890
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Title
[LB040150], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to United Edison Manufacturing Co, April 23rd, 1890
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Date
1890-04-23
Type
Folder/Volume ID
LB040-F
Microfilm ID
140:1067
Document ID
LB040150
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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April 23, 1890
United Edison Mfg. Co.,
No. 65 Fifth Avenue,
New York City
Dear Sirs:-
Referring to the attached memorandum, I beg to advise you that we cannot recognize the business cards of your Company requesting us to show people through the Laboratory. The visitors received at the Laboratory in the past have been so numerous as to seriously interfered with our work, and in order to make any progress whatever, Mr. Edison found it absolutely necessary to exclude visitors altogether. I can see that the memorandum returned herewith has come from some one of your people who is not very familiar with the Edison business, and I think it would be advisable for you to issue proper instructions on this subject so that visitors may not be sent here on a wild-goose chase. In order not to embarrass the parties who presented the letter above returned to. I permitted them to go through a portion of the laboratory and made their visit as interesting as possible; but will please bear in mind that the practice of throwing upon [remainder of letter illegible]
United Edison Mfg. Co.,
No. 65 Fifth Avenue,
New York City
Dear Sirs:-
Referring to the attached memorandum, I beg to advise you that we cannot recognize the business cards of your Company requesting us to show people through the Laboratory. The visitors received at the Laboratory in the past have been so numerous as to seriously interfered with our work, and in order to make any progress whatever, Mr. Edison found it absolutely necessary to exclude visitors altogether. I can see that the memorandum returned herewith has come from some one of your people who is not very familiar with the Edison business, and I think it would be advisable for you to issue proper instructions on this subject so that visitors may not be sent here on a wild-goose chase. In order not to embarrass the parties who presented the letter above returned to. I permitted them to go through a portion of the laboratory and made their visit as interesting as possible; but will please bear in mind that the practice of throwing upon [remainder of letter illegible]