[LB054016], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Dyer and Seely, October 22nd, 1891
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB054016
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October 22, 1891. Messrs, Dyer & Seely, No. 36 Wall Street, New York City. Dear Sirs:- Mr. Edison has received your letter of 16th instant in regard to applying for patents in England, France and Germany on his railway system employing low tension currents, with connections leading to each rail, the rails being connected by a metal plate, with a conducting amalgam between the plate and the rail ends, and he has instructed me to return to you the enclosed powers of attorney for France and Germany, which accompanied your letter and which he has executed. In reply to your question as to whether in instructing you to file applications abroad on this invention Mr. Edison intended you to do so at once or to wait until the U.S. Patent was ready to issue, Mr. Edison says that he thought there was a new German law, and also an understanding between this country and France, whereby application could be filed in those countries at once without affecting the U.S. Patent. Mr. Edison does not want to limit the U.S. Patent or hurt it in any way. Yours Truly, A. O. Tate Private Sec'y.