[LB051326], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Thomas Alva Edison, October 17th, 1891
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275/331 CPW Edison Building, Broad St., N.Y. Oct, 17th, 1891. Thomas A. Edison Esq., Edison Laboratory. Orange, N.J. My Dear Mr. Edison:- In regard to the attachment for adjusting the Phonograph, which Walter Miller has applied to a Nickel-in-the-Slot Machine in the Laboratory, do you not think it would be a good idea for the Phonograph Works to offer these for sale at whatever price may be proper; you suggested, I believe, that we should give one of these away with every hundred cylinders purchased from us, but this would mean that any Company receiving an attachment would take it to some manufacturer and have made as many as they might require to equip all their machines; it would be better for the Phonograph Works to sell them and get whatever profit there may be in the manufacture. Yours very truly, A.O. Tate No Enc.