[LB051450], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Edison Manufacturing Co, James W Gladstone, October 28th, 1891
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445/474 H. F. October 28th, 1891. J.W. Gladstone, Esq., Edison Manufacturing Company, Orange, N.J. Dear Sir:- Referring to your letter of the 21st instant, will you please remember that Mr. Philip S. Dyer, our European Agent, is interested in our business only so far as he can make sales. Mr. Dyer has not been given any continent interest in our success, therefore any expense connected with providing material for Mr. Dyer must be born by ourselves. I have very strong hope that before long we will be in a position to charge against Mr. Dyer not only the freight charges that we are obliged to advance on shipments for his account but that all supplies forwarded to him may be billed against an advance account. We up to present time are not in a position to ask Mr. Dyer to bear this expense, therefore I think you had better open an account in your books called “European Sales Account” and in the course of a month or two you will charge the whole of this against Mr. Dyer. Please remember that all I wish to do is to keep our foreign business in a separate account so that when Mr. Dyer is in a position to advise him at once of the expense that he has to bear in assuming the burden. Yours very truly, A.O. Tate No enc.