[LB050157], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Electrical Engineer, Frank R Colvin, June 26th, 1891
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June 26, 1891 F.R. Colvin Esq., Treasurer & Business Manager, THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, New York City. Dear Sir:- Mr. Edison is very much obliged for your favor of 24th instant, enclosing letter received by you from Frank Harrison, together with press copy of the appropriate reply which you made to the same. This fellow Harrison is the most malignant, vicious and unscrupulous scoundrel we have ever met in all our experience. The statements which he makes concerning the phonograph are untrue, and every word he says is an absolute lie. He has hounded the phonograph from the very start, threatened to blackmail Mr. Lippincott, and, in fact, did everything which he possibly could to injure the enterprise. His animus is due to the fact that when the phonograph was introduced it bid fair to break up the school of photography which he conducts in Newark, N.J. The follow is a nincompoop, void of influence, and not worth being bothered with. I return herewith his letter, as requested. Yours very truly, A.O. Tate Private Sec’y