[LB040219], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co, Benjamin F Stevens, April 26th, 1890
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April 26, 1890 Daniel Weld, Esq., Secretary, Edison Phonograph Toy Mfg. Co., No. 95 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- I beg to confirm receipt of your telegram of today also my reply to same: "Just received this: Yeomans will neither mail nor cable names until agreement signed. I have them in confidence. Probably go London Sunday. What your reply? Daniel Weld, Sec'y" "On my own behalf and on behalf of the Edison Phonograph Works, I refuse to ascent to Yeomans' proposition referred to in your telegram of today. Our decision is withheld subject to inspection of names of underwriters. This is an ultimatum. Thomas A. Edison." Yours truly, Thomas A. Edison