[LB048019], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Henry Swift De Forest, February 26th, 1891
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB048019
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February 26, 1891 Rev. H.S. DeForest, D.D, President, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama. Dear Sir:— Upon Mr. Edison’s return to the Laboratory a few days a go after an absence of several weeks your letter of 12th instant was handed to him, and in answer to the question contained therein: “Which is the better education at Yale College or a Scientific one at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale—” the same having particular reference to your son, who you say has a taste for machinery and inventions, Mr. Edison would advise sending the young man to the Sheffield Scientific School. A Classical education would be excellent were you going to make a lawyer of your son, but the instruction which he will doubtless receive at the Sheffield Scientific School will better fit him for a mechanical occupation. Yours very truly, A. O. Tate Private Secretary