[LB050158], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Tooke Straker, June 26th, 1891
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June 26, 1891 Mr. Tooke Straker, PORT ORAM, N.J. Dear Sir:- Your letter of 23rd instant has been duly received. I am afraid to go into the furnace business. At present have got al I can do in connection with the Concentrating Works, but perhaps my unbounded ambition will some day cause me to take up the furnace business; it will not be for some time yet, however, as I know nothing whatever about it. Why cannot Mr. Wharton use some of our ore in the manner which you suggest, and make Bessemer pig out of it? This he could sell to the Bethlehem people. He is one of their principal Directors. Yours very truly, Thos A. Edison