[LB052163], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to George Charles Spencer Churchill, September 4th, 1891
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB052163
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Sept. 4, 1891. To the Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England. My dear Sir,- Upon my return of the Laboratory a few days ago after a prolonged absence I found your letter of 27th of June. I will send to you by an early steamer a dozen duplicates of phonograph cylinders, vocal and instrumental, which we are marking by a new process. These will be packed very carefully and I hope that they will reach you in good condition. I am sorry that your Electric Lighting Company adopted alternating current. I have just got out a 200 volt lamp, so that an area of sixteen square miles is possible with our system. There are plenty of places in the back streets of London for central stations. The great trouble is that your electricians are not business men and your business men are not electricians. The combination results in the ultimate ruin of the pioneer investors. Yours very truly, Thomas A Edison